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- Magento - Home - Open Source eCommerce Evolved magentocommerce.com
- Karova Store karova.com
- SoundUnwound soundunwound.com
New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.
This article is for the suits who care: if you can’t use cutting-edge tools, technologies or techniques, what can you do to ensure that you’re doing all you can for all of your users?
- Pixel Perfect pixelperfectplugin.com
A Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML. By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development.
- Design for Emotion and Flow - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.
- Adactio: Articles—The System Of The World adactio.com
Brilliant. Wish I'd seen this.
A freshly launched elective payment music site. Artists upload their music and listeners electively pay the artist what they want to download their albums.
- Django cheat sheet (Mercurytide) mercurytide.co.uk
- Announcing dmigrations simonwillison.net
dmigrations is a Django migrations tool. It addresses a common problem in Django development: if you change a model after creating the database tables for it with syncdb, how do you reflect those changes in your database tables without blowing away your existing data and starting again from scratch?
- Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart bigcartel.com
Hosted shops. Look fairly nice.
MySQL database management app for Mac OS X 10.5
Handy intro.
- Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way thomas.broxrost.com
This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,
This document gives general guidelines for web developers and content authors who are searching for directions to help create sites for the mobile web.
"Support for XHTML-MP, i-mode and 3G devices" but £299 plus VAT. Ouch.
- Ralph Lauren Mobile m.ralphlauren.com
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Dear Agencies, it’s time to join the start-up party uk.techcrunch.com · Archived on
One of the biggest problems in the UK, and I would say Ireland as well, is that digital or ‘new media’ agencies only ever decide to incorporate new Web apps or social networks into their thinking when they bubble up from Silicon Valley or elsewhere. Few ever think to jump in and create a few apps themselves.
- W3C mobileOK Checker [BETA] validator.w3.org
Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.
- djangobile - Google Code code.google.com
Djangobile is a django extension for render web pages according to device capabilities. Therefore djangobile offers an implementation for W3C Working Draft IDEAL (Interface DEscription Authoring Language).
- How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent : Pain in the Tech paininthetech.com
- [DRAFT] Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities w3.org
People with disabilities (using desktop or laptop computers) and people without disabilities who are using mobile devices have similar interaction limitations and they experience similar barriers when interacting with Web sites. There is also significant overlap between the design solutions for both.
Transcription of Dan Cederholm's talk at An Event Apart. Some good ideas in here.
- Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com
One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s.
An experimental web development and design studio.
- UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0 uservoice.com
Customer feedback app, as used on blip.fm.
- minidetector - Google Code code.google.com
"A simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a ".mobile" attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles."
- Tech Patterns :: Firefox UserAgent Switcher list techpatterns.com
Less useful than the dev.mobi list.
- tilt view : find mobile websites or url tiltview.com
A config file that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself.
Registration keeps out good posters and attracts trolls? Who'd have thought that?
- Specifics on CSS Specificity - CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to calculate the actual specificity value to determine which selector takes precedence.
According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of sharing is now Facebook. The numbers are interesting - but there are also some big caveats to keep in mind.
- Some Perspective On Browser Market Share | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency alex.dojotoolkit.org · Archived on
Good perspective on Flash/browser penetration from John Dowdell at Adobe.
- Aeracode :: South aeracode.org
Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
Companies should create rich and immersive website experiences, drawing from some of the techniques for game design to build brand affinity and differentiate their sites.
- Unit Interactive :: Labs :: Unit PNG Fix labs.unitinteractive.com
Improved PNG fix.