#web (4,377 links)
"A Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet." No HTTrack for Mac, alas.
- outbreak » Messing up the interface (written on December 13th, 2007 by Marko Mrdjenovic) friedcellcollective.net
"Let’s say you’re designing an interface for a contact form. There are a lot of people involved in the problem and they all have their own issues they want resolved." Contrived but useful example of how forms can get compllicated.
- SAKUZAKU » Blog Archive » I’ve Reached My Limit: Approaches to Character Limit Cutoffs blog.wearesakuzaku.com · Archived on
"In real life, it’s important (and polite) not to obtrusively interrupt someone when they’re in the middle of something, and, of course, this carries over to website usability as well. So, how should we enforce form field character limits [...] ?
- flot - Google Code code.google.com
A pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side.
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Generating charts from accessible data tables and vice versa using the Google Charts API wait-till-i.com · Archived on
A small script that converts data tables to charts using the API and a wee bit of JavaScript. Using this script you can take a simple, valid and accessible data table [...] and it gets automatically converted to a pie chart.
- Yahoo! Media Player developer.yahoo.com
Enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist.
- Digital Web Magazine - CSS Not([hacks]) digital-web.com
"The possibilities of using CSS3 selectors as an alternative to hacks when targeting specific browsers." Novel.
- SWFFix Dev Blog swffix.org
Forthcoming UFO/SWFObject replacement. Keep forgetting the name
Clever clever. "What this does is quietly redirects any files located in our \scripts\ or \css\ folders with version numbers in between the file name and the extension back to just the filename and extension."
- Facebox 1.0 famspam.com
A jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.
- Many Eyes services.alphaworks.ibm.com
For shared visualization and discovery.
- Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel swivel.com
Explore and compare data, graphs and maps, Share insights via email, blog or data downloads, Upload the data you care about.
- Firebug in IE for *any* web site remysharp.com
Load Firebug lite in any page via a bookmarklet.
A blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in) [...] Chyrp destroys the fine line separating a blog and a tumblelog."
Optimize Web pages for 1024x768, but use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024.
"What I’ve seen in our work is that form factor, though important, is not crucial. In fact, it might be a misleading concern. The thing that’s interesting about designing for mobile isn’t the form of the device. It’s that the device comes with you
- DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards dataportability.org
"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors." Not sure how I missed this.
- Optimus · microformats transformer microformatique.com
Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P.
- If all your friends jumped off of a bridge… at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar benbrown.com · Archived on
The big problem with Facebook is the plain fact that it’s an extremely annoying piece of software. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about all the stupid, nasty, and sometimes scary things Facebook has done
- 10 common errors when implementing accessibility webcredible.co.uk
"Web developers attempting to build accessible websites often make the same mistakes time and time again." Good summary.
The list below is designed to help you find new ways to give online and to make sure your money is going to a place that will really help those in need.
- Glitch Browser glitchbrowser.com
A joint collaborative [...] To experience it, launch the Glitchbrowser. If you typed the page address correctly, you should now see some of the images on your requested page becoming glitched.
If however, you start off by thinking about web pages, site maps, left hand navigations and visual design you will very quickly photoshop yourself into a corner. You will find it difficult to create a web of data.
An unobtrusive jQuery component that adds datagrid behaviors (column resizing, paging, sorting, row and column styling, and more) to your tables.
- Online TV Ads Suck Less Than TV Ads On TV: Study techcrunch.com
A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set.
A social learning site for Photoshop artists providing new tutorials and design articles, as voted and suggested by your fellow users.
- Social Media Marketing eBook: Blogger Relations, Facebook Marketing, SMO and Word of Mouth on the Web socialmediaready.com
This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook.
- uTest - Software Testing Community utest.com
Should be testing their own site first, I think.
- DRAG-ing Your Design Down - How To Style Yourself To Anonymity » SOME RANDOM DUDE somerandomdude.net
We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners.
- DOMAssistant, the modular lightweight JavaScript library, with CSS selectors and AJAX robertnyman.com
The idea of DOMAssistant is to provide a simpler and more consistent way to script against the Document Object Model (DOM) in web browsers.
- advertising practitioner: rory, usefulness, better russelldavies.typepad.com
I think of all those endless microsites as the MarketingWeb; a large collection of gorgeous, entertaining, imaginative visually dynamic websites, only ever seen in boardrooms and awards ceremonies.
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.
75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology
- HTML Email Guide anandgraves.com
I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.
- The Django Book djangobook.com
"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs."
- Stats, stats, baby! « Flickr Blog blog.flickr.com
Flickr now has stats for pro users. Nice.
- 24 ways: CSS for Accessibility 24ways.org
A few new tips in here.