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One of my favorite features of Flickr is the “notes” you can attach to photos to comment on various parts of it Flickr Style Image Maps with CSS Now I need to find a bit of Ajax to allow universal addition/editing of these comments…
Browsershots.org. “an open-source system for distributed automatic production of browser screenshots.” I’ve been using Browsercam.com to get automatic screenshots of my Web sites in nearly all the different browsers. This appears to be a free approximation of that service. It does not offer as many platform/browser combinations as Browsercam however, so, while it is cheap-as-free, […]
Asterisk has a helpful article with some thoughts to keep in mind when designing a site that will incorporate advertisements. Fortunately, I very very rarely have to deal with this. I primarily design for higher education Web sites, in which (IMHO) advertising is completely inappropriate. If I’m not doing that, I’m usually doing smaller scale […]
There are some pretty good SEO suggestions in a recent article on SEO by Buzzle.com Essentially it’s the same old tips: Update content regularly Relevant inbound links Click through rates etc.. With some interesting new tips (recent developments/stuff I haven’t heard before. Notably: How many years you have registered your domain name for Spam tactics […]
Over the last 5.5 years as a Web developer, I have picked up several “axioms” that have made my job easier. Today I was reminded of two of them while helping a friend work through some layout issues. Josh Cramer’s First Rule Of Web Design: “It only does what you tell it to do.” Josh […]
D. Keith Robinson posted about Web design skills of a successful Web designer. His list: General Communication Interpersonal Communication Problemsolving Patience Adaptibility Information Architecture for the Web Visual Design Programming Web Development Writing Project Management I agree, for the most part, with his list. I wanted to take a crack at my own, from a […]
CSS Help Pile Directory (scribble view)‘ This could prove to be incredibly useful.
TILT: Table Injection for Layout Technique Using DOM to “inject” tables into a table-less layout. All the benefits of a table based layout, without the myriad drawbacks! Brilliant.
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 […]
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 […]