jQuery Deconstructed
(keyframesandcode.com) - Navigate the physical jQuery code to see what, where, and how the magic happens
IE9 'crazy fast', but rivals still have the speed edge
(techradar.com) - Internet Explorer 9 is 'crazy fast' according to Microsoft, but the Sunspider JavaScript results published by the company show that the latest browser from Redmond still lags behind many of its rivals.
The Sunspider results have become a familiar metric in how fast browsers are judged to More...
Internet Explorer 9 To Be HTML5 Compatible - Microsoft Joining The Anti-Flash Movement?
(thenextweb.com) - Rumors are flying that the forthcoming version of Internet Explorer, the ninth incarnation, will include strong support of HTML5.
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal
(theoatmeal.com) - The all too real behind the scenes look at web design.
10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug
(sixrevisions.com) - Firebug is a revolutionary Firefox extension that helps web developers and designers test and inspect front-end code. It provides us with many useful features such as a console panel for logging information, a DOM inspector, detailed information about page elements, and much more.
Though Firebug is already fully packed with features More...
Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS | Noupe
(noupe.com) - Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. In this tutorial I would More...
Optimizing Conversion Rates: It's All About Usability
(smashingmagazine.com) - In eCommerce usability improvements usually have a huge impact on conversion rates. However, usability doesn’t only mean better visual guide or better site hierarchy. It also means a better communication with potential customers using a professional, trustworthy design, delivering the right information at the right time and communicating with users instead of throwing ad-slogans at them.
Styling your Lists: 20+ Brilliant How to's and Best Practices
(devsnippets.com) - When we think about CSS-Styled lists, different ideas come to mind but that rusty old image of bulleted items is not one of them anymore. There are lots of different methods to format nice HTML lists that is used in most web designs not only for navigation menu (vertical or More...
10 Transition Effects: The art of Showing/Hiding Content
(devsnippets.com) - Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.
Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this More...
Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback
(blogs.wsj.com) - When Digg introduced a new toolbar in early April that added a thin strip – known as a ‘frame’ - to the top of pages submitted to Digg, a publisher outcry forced the social media aggregator back down. It modified the new DiggBar so that only logged in users would More...
Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will
(online.wsj.com) - Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.
Internet Explorer Is To Web Standards What Ebonics Is To Standard English
(chrisberryonthe.net) - Every time I embark on a new web design project, I am reminded of the negative impact of Microsoft Internet Explorer. As I’ve said in the past, I’m not a typical Microsoft basher, and I credit the universality of their operating systems and Office software with a large portion of More...
10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead
(sitepoint.com) - Inevitably, there will come a time when IE6 has a sufficiently minor audience that we can treat it like we did Netscape 4 a few years ago — as legacy technology that it no longer behoves us to support, and its remaining users as willfully stubborn individuals whom we’re not required to pander to any longer!
8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces
(usabilitypost.com) - There is a lot of information out there about various interface design techniques and patterns you can use when crafting your user interfaces and websites, solutions to common problems and general usability recommendations. Following guidelines from experts will likely lead you towards creating a good user interface — but what More...
Browser wars 2009: Firefox, Chrome, & Internet Explorer
(blogs.computerworld.com) - So, while Chrome is faster and more secure and IE 8 is vastly improved over IE 7 and 6, the bottom line is that Firefox and its friends still give me a better over-all Web experience. And, when you're like me and you need to find information quickly on the Web all day long, that's no small thing.
Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to... Hell?
(smashingmagazine.com) - Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. But wait! Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind up in div hell.
14 Most Usefull design cheat sheets and coding cheat sheets
(delimitdesign.com) - Wow - seriously handy to have this around for reference!
20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project
(noupe.com) - Not that anyone on here probably doesn't already know these...but, its a pretty good list
10 skills developers will need in the next five years
(blogs.techrepublic.com.com) - With the recent changes in the economy, a lot of developers are focused on their short-term job prospects. At the same time, it’s important to make sure that you get the most bang for your buck when it comes to taking the time and energy to learn new skills. Here More...
Take your Google Contacts with you
(googlesocialweb.blogspot.com) - Lots of websites ask you to invite your friends when you sign up, and for good reason; the web is more fun when you can share your experiences with other people. However, too many of these sites access your list of friends by asking for your username and password so More...
Mozilla gives 3D web another shot
(tgdaily.com) - 3D on the Internet is about as old as 3D graphics acceleration itself. But all those ideas often disappeared quickly after their release, because they always required a special browser plug-in. Now there is a new idea to enable 3D web graphics that do not need a plug-in, but are More...
Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
(smashingmagazine.com) - As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layout. If structured correctly, drop-down More...
10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited
(smashingmagazine.com) - In November 2008 we published the article 10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming. Apparently, according to negative comments to the post, it contained some errors and some statements that are just wrong. We sincerely apologize for our mistake, and we are truly sorry for any inconvenience we caused More...
10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know
(net.tutsplus.com) - Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it's tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags.
100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources
(smashingmagazine.com) - Google AdSense is a simple and low-risk way for publishers to quickly monetize their content. The pay-per-click ad system has created an opportunity for anyone to instantly have advertising on their website, without the hassle of having to actively sell ad space. AdSense makes up a good portion of the More...
Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
(smashingmagazine.com) - On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website visitor needs to take in order to get to a higher-level page, and they improve the findability of More...
Creating an HTML 5 canvas painting application
(dev.opera.com) - Making a web application that allows users to draw on a canvas requires several important steps: setting up your HTML document with a canvas context (a canvas element with an id), setting up your script to target that canvas context and draw inside it and adding the required mouse event More...
12 Excellent Tools for Picking a Domain Name
(sixrevisions.com) - Selecting the perfect domain name for your website is the most important, and oftentimes hardest, step in establishing a web presence. There are plenty of tools out there that can help you ease the burden of checking available domains and suggesting similar names that are related to your searches.
In this More...
9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design
(smashingmagazine.com) - By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers. Delight and satisfy your visitors, rather than frustrate and annoy them, with smart design decisions. Here are 9 usability problems that More...
Is Canvas the End of Flash?
(stairwellblog.com) - There’s no mistaking it, we love flash around here. However, it’s of my opinion that flash is going out. When you look back at why Flash was created and why it exists today its because designers and developers pushed the boundaries of HTML/CSS/Javascript too far and needed something more. Those More...
Performance Impact of CSS Selectors
(stevesouders.com) - A few months back there were some posts about the performance impact of inefficient CSS selectors. I was intrigued - this is the kind of browser idiosyncratic behavior that I live for. On further investigation, I’m not so sure that it’s worth the time to make CSS selectors more efficient. More...
Is IE8 the end of the line for Internet Explorer?
(weblog.infoworld.com) - IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser. At least, that's what I'm hearing through the grapevine. It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all.
40 Beautiful Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design
(sixrevisions.com) - Retro and vintage web designs have become increasingly popular. Ironically, the more and more the web progresses, the more designers start to revert back to old retro styles. For your design inspiration, here are 40 beautifully-designed websites that revert back in time to retro and vintage styles.
How To Use Icons To Support Content In Web Design
(smashingmagazine.com) - Why use icons? Design is all about communication: it doesn’t matter how important or exciting the information that you’re sharing is if you fail to hook your visitors. When initially viewing a website, most users will first scan the page for visually interesting content, and only after something grabs their More...
20 Useful PHP Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project
(noupe.com) - Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. In an effort to help you take it More...
Amateur's Guide To Customizing Website Design With FireBug
(makeuseof.com) - The tool is a FireFox extension called FireBug and it is so cool that many web developers use FireFox for the only reason that it can be extended with FireBug. So in this post I am sharing my amateur’s tricks of creating a web site design with FireBug.
10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website
(smashingmagazine.com) - You may have a personal portfolio website for a number of reasons. If you’re a freelancer, then you’d need one to showcase your work and allow people to contact you. If you’re a student (or unemployed), then you’d need one to show prospective employers how good you are and what More...
Art of Type: Squint-Free Small Type
(layersmagazine.com) - If you don’t want your small type to look like it’s hiding something, if you really want it to be read, it takes some extra effort, because all type programs default to settings for creating full-sized text. When you start setting smaller type than this, whether it’s for footnotes, contracts, More...
Better browsers. Better standards. Better tools. So why are Web pages still breaking?
(computerworld.com) - Those who lived through the browser wars of the '90s might think that hell has frozen over, were it not for one, small problem: Users still experience plenty of problems on the Web. A recent report issued by browser vendor Opera Software ASA showed that the average page on the More...
7 Fresh and Simple Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility
(freelancefolder.com) - This post is written for designers, developers, or anyone else who has struggled with testing their websites across multiple browsers.
As little as one year ago, there were almost no good options for testing cross-browser compatibility of websites. The tools out there usually had significant drawbacks — either in cost, capabilities, More...
5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers using the Power of jQuery
(noupe.com) - CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Not all current browsers support CSS3, but it is however possible to create equivalent effects and serve it with the power of jQuery.
30 Beautifully Textured Web Designs
(sixrevisions.com) - Textures in a web design have become a popular trend, replacing the sleek, glossy, and shiny effects that we commonly refer to as the "Web 2.0" design trend. Working with textures is difficult, but talented designers worldwide choose this route to add a depth in their designs and to exemplify More...
The $300 Million Button
(uie.com) - It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem.
Norwegian Websites Declare War on IE 6
(blog.wired.com) - Several large websites in Norway have launched an advocacy campaign urging Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade their outdated web browsers.
Why the White House's Embrace of Drupal Matters
(techpresident.com) - Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House's new Recovery.gov site was built using the free and open-source content management platform Drupal. Pre-Recovery.gov, the perhaps highest-profile use of Drupal had been the Onion website. But that's not the only reason that Drupal fans are excited. I asked More...
Google AJAX APIs Playground
(code.google.com) - If you are a developer, you know how invaluable examples are when learning new technologies. In this spirit, we've released the AJAX API Playground to help teach Google's JavaScript APIs.
The AJAX API Playground is currently loaded with over 170 live samples for 8 Google JavaScript APIs that you can edit More...
5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS
(net.tutsplus.com) - Sure, anyone can write CSS. Even programs are doing it for you now. But is the CSS any good? Here are 5 tips to start improving yours.
Google Webmaster Blog: Specify your canonical
(googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) - Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in More...
Why HTTP?
(timothyfitz.wordpress.com) - The world doesn’t need another arbitrary binary protocol. Just use HTTP. Your life will be simpler. Originally this came up when scaling a gaggle of MySQL machines. I would have killed for a reliable proxy. It’s with this in mind that I’ve come up with my list of things that More...
50 Useful JavaScript Tools
(smashingmagazine.com) - JavaScript is a powerful client-side scripting language used in many modern websites and Web applications. In the hands of a skilled Web developer, JavaScript can enhance the user’s experience of the website and provide rich interactive components and features.
50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus
(smashingmagazine.com) - Usability is an essential goal of any website, and usable navigation is something every website needs. It determines where users are led and how they interact with the website. Without usable navigation, content becomes all but useless. Menus need to be simple enough for the user to understand, but also More...
Clear And Effective Communication In Web Design
(smashingmagazine.com) - Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of websites are affected by the need for good communication in one way or another. Regardless of whether the More...
15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
(devsnippets.com) - We advocate using CSS whenever possible, and we often successed. Modern browsers have very good support for CSS — it’s certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers. That’s why today we wanted to More...
50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets
(speckyboy.com) - If you are looking for that perfect icon for your web site, blog, web app or application, you will find them here.
Below is a compilation of the best ever Web Design and Development Icon Sets.
IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain
(news.cnet.com) - Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of global browser market share, a drop of over seven percentage points in a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications, released Monday. Mozilla's Firefox browser, meanwhile, has gained market share in the same time frame, climbing over three percentage points to 21.53 percent.
5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started
(noupe.com) - CSS frameworks have grown in popularity recently, enabling developers to rapidly prototype designs. The idea of CSS Frameworks is to do all the heavy lifting of the repetitive tasks you do over and over again on each site, allowing you to get faster results and get to the fun stuff designers love.
Firefox Mobile Headed for Windows Mobile as Early as Next Week
(i.gizmodo.com) - The Touch Pro is an interesting choice for the first release; the decision, I'd wager, stemmed from the ease of porting—resizing interface elements and managing the GUI is much easier when you got the Pro's 480x640 display to work with, and dealing with performance issues, which were evident in the More...
Colors In Corporate Branding And Design
(smashingmagazine.com) - Color is a major consideration in any Web design. Whether for an individual, small company, or major corporation, color scheme is one of the most significant factors in the overall look and appearance of a website. In some cases, the designer may have the sole discretion in making color choices, More...
Maximum Length of an email address
(email.about.com) - Every email address is composed of two parts. The local part comes before the '@' sign, and the domain part follows it. In "user@example.com", the local part is "user", and the domain part is "example.com".
jQuery 1.3.1 Released
(blog.jquery.com) - This is a bug fix release for jQuery 1.3. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker.
There are no significant changes in 1.3.1 from 1.3 other than straight bug fixes. If you are still using jQuery 1.2.6, and looking to upgrade, please upgrade directly to this release.
Eclipse Rolls Out PHP Development Tools 2.0
(internetnews.com) - The PHP community is finally getting an update to the Eclipse Foundation's PHP Developer Tools (PDT) project, an important set of tools for developers that has not been update since the initial 1.0 release in 2007.
10 Brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques
(devsnippets.com) - Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website.
Today we wanted to highlight 10 brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques built using different Javascript Libraries including jQuery, Mootools along with some CSS magic to give us what you see below.
50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools
(smashingmagazine.com) - PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby.
Why PHP won
(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com) - When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use, PHP had taken over. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack) has really been the dominant development platform, at More...
45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
(smashingmagazine.com) - JavaScipt libraries have made huge leaps and bounds in helping developers write code and develop products more quickly. jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks, with powerful tools that improve the user’s interaction with Web applications. jQuery has an additional advantage in that it allows developers to select More...
PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS
(css-tricks.com) - It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (Wordpress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn’t hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work.
A new HTTP header - X-Torrent
(clubtroppo.com.au) - The thinking behind the X-Torrent header is that whenever a web server returns any headers over HTTP, it includes an X-Torrent header pointing to a torrent tracker for that document. When a website becomes heavily loaded, browsers would use the BitTorrent protocol to obtain the requested document or resource from More...
Subtle changes is Web architecture
(t-a-w.blogspot.com) - Today I'd like to discuss some things that has been happening to the Internet lately, and I'm talking about the subtle stuff, not the well known things like AJAX, Comet, and Javascript that doesn't suck.
jQuery 1.3 - Events/live - Bound to all current and future elements
(docs.jquery.com) - This method works and behaves very similarly to jQuery's bind method but with one important distinction: When you bind a "live" event it will bind to all current and future elements on the page (using event delegation). For example if you bound a live click to all "li" elements on More...
Javascript Best Practices
(javascripttoolbox.com) - This document is a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing javascript code, based on opinions and experience from many developers in the javascript community. Since this is a list of recommendations rather than a list of absolute rules, experienced developers may have slightly differing opinions from those expressed below.
10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques
(smashingmagazine.com) - More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, More...
OpenCalais - Web Service for Semantic Data
(opencalais.com) - We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art More...
HTML 5 canvas - The basics
(dev.opera.com) - Canvas is one of the most interesting HTML 5 features, and it's ready to be used within most modern Web browsers. It provides all you need to create games, user interface enhancements, and other things besides. The 2D context API includes a wealth of functionality in addition to that discussed More...
Beautifully Documented Code
(toolness.com) - a single-page JavaScript application that can be served from static files, which takes in raw JavaScript files and dynamically renders the documentation alongside the code in the reader’s browser.
What's Next After Web 2.0
(readwriteweb.com) - So we can expect to see a welcome return to web innovation in 2008/09, along the lines of what Flickr and 37Signals created back in the early days of Web 2.0. However, web entrepreneurs will need to make adjustments due to the economic climate. Many people have already noted that More...
A Web Developer's Responsibility
(ejohn.org) - It's safe to say that the biggest tax on a web developer is spending so much time dealing with browser bugs and incompatibilities. Thus it has become the favorite past-time of all web developers to complain about having to deal with them. Browser bugs are annoying, frustrating, and make your job incredibly difficult.
25 Stylish Website Footer Designs
(sixrevisions.com) - Footers on web pages have evolved from being a simple section where you host your copyright information and additional links, to a multi-functional section where you can find a variety of site features such as twitter updates, a short bio of the author, and secondary navigation.
This collection aims to showcase More...
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
(smashingmagazine.com) - Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I More...
6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP
(ostatic.com) - GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a long-standing and hugely respected open source graphics program, and many readers probably already use it. Originally created at U.C. Berkeley its interface and feature set run neck-and-neck with expensive proprietary alternatives such as Photoshop, and it has a thriving community of developers More...
10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time
(sixrevisions.com) - But getting things done rapidly doesn’t mean working harder - just working smarter. In this article, you’ll find 10 general, time-saving tips to cut down on your development time.
Browser CPU usage
(inessential.com) - One thing that bugs me — some pages use an abnormal amount of the CPU even when they’re not apparently doing anything.
Good advice for all the web devs out there.
