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Post your Front-end Developer jobs to front-end-developer.com for Free!

Post your Front-end Developer jobs to front-end-developer.com for Free!

Posted 09 July 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Post your Job openings and expose them to quality web developer and web designer candidates.

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How to become an iPhone developer in 5 steps without learning Objective-C

How to become an iPhone developer in 5 steps without learning Objective-C

Posted 13 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Buy a Mac 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 [...]

Webkit 3D Cube using new CSS transformations

Webkit 3D Cube using new CSS transformations

Posted 06 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

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. [...]

Top-10 design mistakes in web applications

Posted 16 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

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 [...]

Top 10 accessibility mistakes

Posted 16 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

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 [...]

Submit Your Blog to 100 Directories With Good Google Page Rank For Free With No Reciprocal Link Needed

Posted 16 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | 1 Comment

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.

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The Economist Style Guide

The Economist Style Guide

Posted 08 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

If you have the time to click thru this guide you are sure to come across some piece of sage advice that will improve your writing style.  The guide is easy to navigate from one section to the next, and cons ice and to the point, so it make for fast learning. If you are [...]

Rails Weenie – find answers to your Ruby on Rails questions

Posted 08 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

A point based question and answer website for rails issues. I suppose the title pretty much explained everything…

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Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Posted 08 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Jim Rutherford passes on these links, the 12 tutorials that [he] found most useful for learning Ruby on Rails.

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Loading XML into a page with xmlHttpRequest

Posted 08 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

A cool little blog post and demo that Retrieves an xml atom feed and xsl stylesheet with XMLHttpRequest().

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What does a front-end web developer do?

Posted 06 March 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

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, [...]