Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
Andy Budd had a pretty good article describing his ideal Web development team. I have decided (mostly for my benefit) to delineate my ideal team for a higher education environment. As I spelled these out, I realized that they fit very closely with Andy’s assessment of the situation. Department Manager: Hires and fires. Develops the […]
It appears that Amazon is playing with a redesign currently. It also seems to only show to random visitors. It looks like they have redesigned their tabs a bit. But the coolest part is what they are doing with their “See all categories” tab When you mouse over the categories tab, it pops up a […]
A nice little resource on well written, secure PHP by on ILoveJackDaniels.com. Writing Secure PHP
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Somehow I missed this back in the blur that was February. But this is the way it is currently being done, folks. It is the way of the future. Get on board now. (dang… time to become an XML, XSLT expert…)
The first thing I read (and subsequently most of what came up in my RSS Aggregator for the rest of the day) when I turned on my computer at work on Monday was about the Adobe Macromedia Acquisition. Kottke does a great job of rounding up most of the important news and opinions on the […]
A neat little trick to layer a couple of png files over eachother with a bit of CSS and some proprietary markup to get IE to behave. PNG Headers
Similar to Fahrner Image Replacement, only with Select Boxes instead of text! Select Something New, part 1 (parts 2 and 3 coming…)
Deluxe CSS Dropdown Menus. As much as I dislike dropdown menus, this looks like it could prove useful sometime. All CSS, list tags, and a bit of javascript to get IE to behave.
Edit in place with Javascript and CSS. A sweet little tool that can/will revolutionize content management systems. I believe something like it is already being used at Flickr.
A neat little CSS/DOM trick to round the corners of a div (or other styled block element). More Nifty Corners
Dan Cedarholm “The Markup and Style Handbook”. A great resource for effective Web development with Web standards.
Steve Krug IF YOU HAVE TO GET ONE WEB DESIGN BOOK, MAKE IT THIS ONE. An amazing look at Web usability and user-centered design. I call it “the Bible”. (note, this is the second edition, which is not out yet. I have read the first edition, and I’m sure this second one is only going […]