#web (4,377 links)
New and interesting websites from around the internet that may be of use to independent musicians and the music business.
Extension of big red angry text but c'mon... CSS expressions? Evil!
- Asual » SWFAddress asual.com
A small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications.
- A List Apart: Articles: Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written alistapart.com
An understanding of what makes a piece of copy really good is one more useful device a web designer or developer can slot into his or her mental tool belt.
- QuarkRuby: Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery quarkruby.com
For me, jQuery's philosophy (type less, do more, keeping things intuitive and unobstrusive) makes a big difference. But, I miss prototype core javascript additions.
- Does Accessibility Cost More? - Accessites.org accessites.org
But why not charge more? Accessible, standards-complaint sites are quality sites, and quality sites, like quality cars, quality watches, and quality everything else, tend to be more expensive.
- Figuring out OpenSocial simonwillison.net
So it’s out, and lots of people are talking about it, but I’m still trying to work out exactly what it is.
Some good points, some contentious.
- Quirksmode - CSS - Contents and compatibility quirksmode.org
Dead handy.
"Typography has an important place in the web at the moment. Social interaction, and how to design for it, it a hot design topic [...] But don’t forget that the medium of social interaction is language, and the way language is shaped and looks is typogr
- Third time’s a charm « Davidville blog.davidville.com
Lots of new tumblr features. Nice work.
Choosing the right framework can be tricky, and weeding through a mess of opinionated fanboys (myself included) is intimidating.
Not replicating browser functionality and making accessibility help videos.
A presentation that covers the benefits of WCAG 2.0, shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, how it differs from WCAG 1.0, and other topics listed in the outline
- Google Maps - Personalize Google Maps maps.google.com
"Easily create and share personalized, annotated maps of your world". Nice video tutorial
- blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web blog.pmarca.com
"Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Fli
- photophlow photophlow.com
"An easy and fun way to talk about and share flickr photos in real time." Liking this very much.
- In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Click streams have made room for bounce rates, search analytics, and so much more. If we play our cards right, we can reduce and synthesize the raw data and give our clients more meaningful information that foments action.
When building a web app, reporting is the last thing on many feature lists. Clear reporting is vitally important for the long term success of your web app and managing your growth.
- Dopplr Blog » In rainbows blog.dopplr.com
"We take the MD5 digest of the city’s name, convert it to hex and take the first 6 characters as a CSS RGB value." Smart.
or How to be a POSH SEO!
- The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user.
- Unofficial StumbleUpon FAQ stumbleupon.theprawn.com
- StumbleUpon Will Love Us Even When Google Doesn’t nowsourcing.com
Some interesting stuff on StumbleUpon.
- MRI :: for web developers westciv.com
A free cross browser tool that lets you test selectors with any web page. Selectors, particularly complex ones can be difficult to get exactly right - MRI lets you experiment with them on any web page (local or online, static or dynamic).
- Cruciforum: crucially simple kryogenix.org
A very simple web forum, designed to make it really easy to add a discussion forum to a website.
- Beanstalk — Hosted Subversion for team leads beanstalkapp.com
A hosted Subversion system, making it easy for anyone to setup, browse, track, and manage Subversion repositories [...] has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, and Lighthouse.
- YUI Theater — PPK on the Professionalization of Frontend Engineering » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
PPK has embarked recently on a project to create a professional organization for frontend engineers in his native Holland. The organization is called “Fronteers” (frontend engineers)
- Designing For Every Browser: How To Make Your Site Fully Cross Browser Compatible > Design Vitality designvitality.com
Poor article but some potentially useful resources.
This tutorial takes a practical, example-based approach to implementing [Yahoo HPW] rules. It's targeted towards web developers with a small budget, who are most likely using shared hosting.
- E-Access Blog » Blog Archive » Accessibility Ultimatum Proposed for UK Government Websites. headstar.com
Government websites may be stripped of their ‘gov.uk’ domain names if they fail to meet tough new standards of accessibility to web users with disabilities, according to confidential draft proposals
- Readability, Uniqueness, Hackability and Meaning in URL Design - Article - andrewingram andrewingram.net · Archived on
URL design is arguably one of the most important areas of website developement. Not only do URLs generally have huge visual priority in web browsers but they’re also shown on search result listings and get used for matching search terms.
- jQuery Logging happygiraffe.net
A tiny jQuery extension that logs the current jQuery selection to the firebug console.
- Best Practices for Web Developers v1.03 masukomi.org
A heuristic approach to version control, unit testing, and app deployment.
"When building a web site with HTTPS pages, one of the annoying tasks is to ensure that those pages make no references to HTTP resources. If they do, then Internet Explorer will pop up alarming messages about mixing secure and insecure content". Great tip
- OpenCart - Open Source Shopping opencart.com
"An open source PHP-based online shopping cart system." Out-of-the-box HTML doesn't look that nice.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
"We should make an effort to create accessible content, because it’s part of our job. And frankly, it doesn’t take much effort; it’s not difficult." First sentence yay! Second sentence wrong. It's hard doing it properly.
- Web Access Centre Blog :: Better Connected, Better Results: Top tips for TITLEs rnib.org.uk · Archived on
title attribute: just say no, ta.
- High Performance Web Sites books.slashdot.org
"Teams are so fluid, project work is chaotic and project management is driven by marketing considerations (read: "get it out", not "enterprise stability") that site performance is seen as a server hardware issue."
- 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of | Know-How smashingmagazine.com
30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer's Web site is inaccessible to the blind, according to court documents.
- Welcome | Internet Advertising - the Rubicon Project rubiconproject.com
Our self-serve solution optimizes your ad space by matching ads to networks that make you the most money.