#web (4,377 links)
- Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean, which advantages they have and how you can use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines.
"Web pages often contain links like "Click here" or just "here". This document explains why such usage is bad practice, especially for accessibility reasons."
- Google Maps maps.google.com
Create personalized, annotated, customized maps using Google Maps
- Capistrano: Home capify.org
A tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines.
A quick and dirty set of its most powerful features.
- jscsscomp - Google Code code.google.com
jscsscomp is a PHP script what compress JavaScript and CSS files when they are requested from the server.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: What's new with Sitemaps.org? googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Every website can have a robots.txt file in a standard location, so we decided to let you tell us about your Sitemap in the robots.txt file. All you have to do is add a line.
- <em>Das Google Problem</em>: is the invisible mouse benevolent? Tony Curzon Price - openDemocracy opendemocracy.net
The way Google organises knowledge raises fears that in the process understanding will be crushed. Tony Curzon Price identifies a problem and points to a solution.
- FlashReplace - A light-weight JavaScript to insert Flash movies into your web page - Robert’s talk robertnyman.com
Possible alternative for SWFObject/UFO. jQuery plugin gets my vote, though.
- posh - Microformats microformats.org
POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic rather than presentational.
- S5 Reloaded • Welcome netzgesta.de
The very existence of the new, updated book hints that usability guidelines evolve over time. In one of the first chapters, Nielsen makes this explicit by revisiting earlier web usability issues to see how much they've improved in seven years. Each
Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) addresses those limitations.
If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.
Surely if you are part of implementing a website or even maintain your own blog, good practice typography should be a part of it?
- Digital Web Magazine - Markup as a Craft digital-web.com
Nothing new but that's not a criticism; good to have all this in one place!
- Learning jQuery packtpub.com
A gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages - even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled.
- 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne radicalbehavior.com
Comments lead into an interesting-ish discussion about scaling problems with RoR.
- Actual Browser Sizes (final) - Baekdal.com baekdal.com
In order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px.
This tutorial is an explanation of the techniques involved in creating a fluid flash movies that adapt to browser resolution.
Make pages of feeds
- kelvinluck.com: jQuery date picker kelvinluck.com
Allows you to easily add “date picker” calendars to you HTML forms. These calendars make it much quicker, easier and less error prone for people to input certain types of dates.
- The business case for Web standards-based development - Insight at NavigationArts navarts.com · Archived on
This article will first introduce persistent UI pitfalls of the 1990s, then outline the benefits of Web standards-based Web site development.
- Shape Shed - Journal - Default Styles for CSS shapeshed.com
Don't particularly like the methods but always interesting to see what other people do...
To avoid being painted with the same brush as the bad guys, there are a few pitfalls to avoid when it comes to maintaining your most precious treasure, your list of opted-in addresses.
It's a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show.
- fabric of folly - a weblog by Dan Taylor fabricoffolly.blogspot.com
Despite often being deprioritised (or forgotten about altogether) by web developers, the lowly favicon (a contraction of favourite icon) is becoming an increasingly important aspect of brand identity on the web.
- f berriman / blog fberriman.com
Last Monday I had the opportunity to visit the Test Partners, after an invite by Steve Green, to attend an afternoon of screen reader demonstration. I’m exceptionally glad I went
This page is a demonstration of the jQuery SIFR plugin, written by Gilles van den Hoven after seeing Mike's version which he made some time ago. Since there was a need for such a plugin on the jQuery list i thought why not make one
Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs
Check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more
Flex Templating provides rich client side website templating using MVC (Model-View-Controller). FXT solves a host of problems for using Flex and Flash Player for website development.
There are a number of methods available for getting information about a Macromedia Flash movie picked up by popular search engines such as Google.
- Uni-Form dnevnikeklektika.com
"Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms."
- Watir: Web Application Testing in Ruby wtr.rubyforge.org
A free, open-source functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is pronounced water.
- Juicy Studio: Choosing an Accessible CMS juicystudio.com
How do you go about choosing an accessible content management system (CMS)? What are the main criteria for success? And how to ensure ease of use for authors including screen reader users?
- Twitter (kottke.org) kottke.org
Maybe that's when you know how you've got a winner: when people use it like mad but can't fully explain the appeal of it to others. See also: weblogs, Flickr.
- phpsprockets - Google Code code.google.com
Sprockets are hierarchically created objects that can be progressively, logically defined and then rendered when needed. Sprockets play nice, coexisting with other code generators and template systems, and provide a great addition to MVC frameworks.
You get the reliability of Yahoo! UI, and the developer friendliess of jQuery. You also receive the benefits of an easily customizable A.P.I. which puts you in control of how you will work with the library.
- Subtraction: Oh Yeeaahh! subtraction.com
Creating some kind of definitive documentation about my approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid as my primary layout tool.
a multi–layered javascript experiment
"This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone - particularly the person browsing your site." Be good to see a jQuery version...