Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.
Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don’t just improve user [...]
Ten years ago, only the most cutting-edge web designers used CSS for layouts and styling. Browser support for CSS layouts was slim and buggy, so these people advocated for web standards adherence, while creating hacks that made CSS layouts work in all browsers. One hack that became widely used was browser sniffing: Detecting which browser [...]
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You’ll need one with an Intel-based processor, running the Leopard version of MacOS X. It doesn’t have to be a top of the range model, though.
Sign-up as an official developer
If you plan on releasing your masterpiece at any point, you’ll need to sign up with the iPhone Developer Program. The Standard cost [...]
Paul Hayes has been playing with CSS transformations and making 3D cubes:
The impression of a three dimensional cube can be created using modern CSS techniques, without the need for JavaScript, imagery, canvas or SVG. Using the proprietary transform property to skew and rotate shaded rectangles, individual cube faces can combine to form a 3D object. [...]
According to Jakob Nielsen, these are the 10 most common usability violations found in web applications:
Non-standard interface controls, such as home-grown scrollbars
Inconsistency in the way things work, appear and are labelled across the app
No providing proper affordances that give people visual clues about what they can do [...]
Here’s a nice top ten of things not to do when building accessible sites:
Don’t use verbose ALT text. ALT text for information-based images
should be short and succinct. Decorative images should never have ALT
text.
Don’t use random characters, such as vertical bars, to separate [...]
If you are building links for your blog to improve your Google Page Rank and Search Engine Position, submit your blog to these 100 Directories for free. The list is sorted according to their Google page rank. And the best part of it is that there is NO NEED FOR A RECIPROCAL LINK.
When you submit [...]
A point based question and answer website for rails issues. I suppose the title pretty much explained everything…
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Jim Rutherford passes on these links, the 12 tutorials that [he] found most useful for learning Ruby on Rails.
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A cool little blog post and demo that Retrieves an xml atom feed and xsl stylesheet with XMLHttpRequest().
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Front-end web developers, the “artists” formerly known as web designers
are the bunch of people in the company that make sure that the data coming
from the backend gets displayed on the browser. They also make sure it looks
as closely as possible as the design, that ,
CED
came up with, and that the user can navigate through it, [...]
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