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- Javascript Tooltips on Steroids - Javascript Tutorials - 15 Days Of jQuery 15daysofjquery.com · Archived on
- maps.amung.us maps.amung.us
With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from - live!
- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » IA for beginners: long pages work. poorbuthappy.com
"Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis (which I define as “the practice of adding too much structure when it’s not needed and even gets in the way”)." But not all the time, naturally.
In the course of building Plaxo 3.0, which involved an ambitious foray into rich internet application design, Joseph and learned a host of lessons about the importance of performance and the means by which it can be achieved.
AlastairC's collection of worthwhile DOM-based enhancements.
Dapper allows you to build web applications and mashups using data from any website without any programming.
There are certainly situations where CSS frameworks are useful, but it just doesn’t seem right to change the HTML to use them (for production sites).
The most efficient way to serve compressed JavaScript is to first run your code through a JavaScript compressor that shrinks variable and argument names, and then serve the resulting code using gzip compression.
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.
Because secondary actions can have negative consequences, especially when used unintentionally, I’ve often argued they should be absent from forms.[...]That said there are situations where secondary actions make sense.
- Poster :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.
From 2005. Background.
- Google LatLong: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps google-latlong.blogspot.com
A new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML.
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.
- VentureBeat » Facebook debunked venturebeat.com
Useful (if sometimes obvious) insights.
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- #haml.Documentation.Sass haml.hamptoncatlin.com
"Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are use
Separate browsing profile and dev profile... could be confusing.
- Learning jQuery learningjquery.com
Getting to know the library of choice for unobtrusive JavaScript
Before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world.
- Adactio: Journal - Wireframework adactio.com
Unless I’m creating cookie-cutter sites, I don’t think a CSS framework can help me. That said, I think a framework like Blueprint has its place.
The design firm DIY Kyoto (as in Kyoto Protocol) recently began selling a device called the Wattson, which not only shows your energy usage but can also transmit the data to a Web site, letting you compare yourself with other Wattson users worldwide.
- Web Access Centre Blog :: User Focused rnib.org.uk
"…what if the reason that web accessibility (and accessibility in general) hasn’t got as far as it should have by now, is that the majority of designers/managers/people in charge of making stuff have no, or not enough knowledge of what life is like fo
- Macromedia - FlashPaper 2 adobe.com
- Vlad the Deployer rubyhitsquad.com
Pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy.
- jQuery for JavaScript programmers simonwillison.net
I wrote jQuery off as a passing fad. Over the past few months it’s become clear to me exactly how wrong I was. jQuery is an exceptionally clever piece of engineering.
Another CSS framework.
Another Blueprint discussion
- JW MP3 Player jeroenwijering.com
Supports playback of a single MP3 file or an RSS, XSPF or ATOM playlist (with advertisement possibilities), a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.
The idea that a redesign of anything more than the most basic of sites will not require changes to (X)HTML markup is simply a myth.
This tool allows you to visualise good colour combinations on a Photoshop style colour picker. It's primary use is finding acceptable colours from an existing inaccessible combination - while maintaining the aesthetic appeal of the original.
- jQuery in 15 minutes » SlideShare slideshare.net
- Subtraction: The Framework Formally Known as ’Prints subtraction.com
Khoi Vinh interviews Olav Frihagen, creator of Blueprint framework.
- Juicy Studio: Updated Luminosity Colour Contrast Analysers juicystudio.com
The Juicy Studio Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser and the example luminosity contrast ratios have been updated to match the latest version of the draft Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- Resource Center - Contrast Analyser 2.0 paciellogroup.com
The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment -- especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.
- Niqui Merret: Flash and Accessibility niquimerret.com
a short list of issues and bugs that I have come across when working towards accessible Flash sites. These are all focused on the Flash Player in the Browser.
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
- Eloquent JavaScript eloquentjavascript.net
A comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language.
A simple rule for good web sites: content is golden. In an accessibility context, structured content is golden. It a core responsibility of the site owner to ensure this is followed (not just the developer).
- Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility googleblog.blogspot.com