March 2010
52 posts
Is John The Client Dense or Are You Failing Him? -... →
Meet John the client. John runs a reasonably large website. He is a marketer who considers himself smart, articulate and professional. That said, he doesn’t know…
February 2010
84 posts
Utah Has Now Made Miscarriage A Criminal Offense →
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This state never sees to amaze me with its absolute disregard for human interest. I’m not condoning or condemning abortion (it’s not my choice), but how can a miscarriage be a…
HTML-Ipsum →
Handy clipboard-able stubs for lists, paragraphs, forms, etc.
:nth-child tester →
Handy tool for testing various equations in an :nth-child CSS3 selector (which rocks).
Interview with the creator of the Apple startup... →
Filed under: Hardware, Multimedia, Software, Apple, Developer
We met them while they were shooting on the Apple Campus, and now the creators of the Dutch site …
BuddyPress for One (and All!) →
Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were…
Found Footage: Google's ad, Mac style →
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple
Happy weekend! Google may have won some hearts with its Super Bowl ad a little while back, but we all know that Apple…
MacHeist →
Link: http://www.macheist.com/ Looks like the next bundle goes on sale March 2nd.
Learn How Canceling Credit Cards Affects Your... →
Adam Baker, blogger at Man vs. Debt, canceled all his credit cards 15 months ago. His credit score dropped just 10 points, but he learned a lot about that score, and what financial reviewers are…
Why Providing Value in Your Job is Important →
One of the first things that they taught me at Blogging School was how to flog my blog erm, I mean, how to promote readership. There are many ways to get people to your site, but the not-so-secret…
Calendar or To Do List? Two Task Management Tools... →
How do you plan and track your daily activities, with a calendar or a to do list? Some productivity gurus claim that putting everything on your calendar ensures that it never gets done, or that…
Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple's... →
App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher…
Google Faces Antitrust Inquiry →
The European Commission love a good inquiry. Oracle, Apple and Microsoft have all been hit, and now they’ve now turned their legal turrets toward Google. Although Google have faced…
Battle of Puppets brings the fight to the... →
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Deals, App Store
Battle of Puppets fell through the cracks here when it was first released, and that was unfortunate — it’s a 2D real-time…
Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint! →
A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle
Menus
There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted…
Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass →
Posterous is an engineered product from Silicon Valley. But Tumblr is a designed product from New York.
Mimeo and the Kleptopus King →
As anyone on Dribbble already knows, I have been hard at work on my next iPhone/iPod touch game for the past two months. With the public launch of Dribbble imminent (I haven’t heard anything…
Lesson #579 - Blasphemy →
I learned the Josh Christ fact twice in one week, from both Ed Brubaker and Christopher Moore. Seemed like a sign to make a comic about it. - - There might be something blasphemous about…
10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone →
I avoid talking on the phone at all costs. Here’s why.
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How to Tell Organizations Their Website is... →
Developers who visit SitePoint are some of the most conscientious on the web. However, you may be surprised to learn there are people out there who avoid accessibility, shun standards, put…
Tags Vs Categories →
We’ve all done it, written a post and then spent the following few minutes adding tags and assigning it to multiple categories. It’s all all good for Google juice, right? Well maybe not.
In…
The Business Case for A/B Testing →
Does design of a sales page matter? Traditional reasoning says that the product always remains the same no matter how you dress it up on the sales page. So, one should focus on making the…
Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using... →
A Guest Post by www.lewishowes.com on driving traffic to your blog with LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is the most powerful, yet under-utilised social networking platform on the web.
Whether you…
50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual... →
Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is…
5 Lists Every Website Owner Should Keep →
I know, a list of important lists. With a post like this I could just tear the fabric of space time. However stay with me, it might be more interesting than it sounds.
To be honest with…
CSS3, Coming Soon to a BlackBerry Near You →
Research in Motion, manufacturers of the popular BlackBerry smart phone series, have announced plans to launch a new web browser for their phones based on the open source WebKit layout engine, and…
CSS3, Coming Soon to a BlackBerry Near You →
Research in Motion, manufacturers of the popular BlackBerry smart phone series, have announced plans to launch a new web browser for their phones based on the open source WebKit layout engine, and…
Online Advertising And Its Impact On Web Design -... →
In recent years, advertising has become a major revenue source for many websites. Not too long ago, online ads were often met with disapproval from visitors, and advertisers were unsure about their…
Experience Themes - The design behind the design →
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Wow! An amazing article that just changed the way I’ll look at developing a site.
There’s an old adage among screenwriters that when a writer can sum up a story in a sentence or…
Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs -... →
Effective web design doesn’t have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how…
adaptive path » sketchboards: discover better +... →
A User Experience design and consulting firm that unites theory and practice to advance the art of user experience design while helping clients make better business decisions. Located in San…
Scots unleash world's strongest beer →
41% ABV ‘Sink the Bismarck’ torpedoes German rival
A Scottish brewer appears to have torpedoed a German rival’s claim to the world’s strongest beer, by bottling a “quadruple IPA” weighing in at a…
Sitemaps – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly →
Sitemaps are like Marmite (Ed: yeast extract spread that divides opinion, very popular in the UK). You either love them or hate them. OK maybe you don’t ‘love’ them but they do seem to…
Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this... →
Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this site for $200. Why should I go with you?”
Me: “Has he done any work for you in the past?”
Client: Yeah! He did [Other Site] for me.
[I load…
Web Design Iterations and Algorithms | Design... →
In the process of designing websites, we go through a lot of iterations until we are finally satisfied. So, why is it that our designs go through so many different iterations?
Smashing Network Update: Add Widget To Your Site... →
In the last few months, you may have noticed some major changes happening on Smashing Magazine’s front page. Since November 2009, when we launched the Smashing…
!important is Actually Useful (in Print Style... →
The poor old !important statement receives a lot of flak in the CSS community, and with good reason. It’s unnecessary, creates a maintenance nightmare, and makes a hollow mockery of the…
Expo: FastMac turns iPhone into unversal remote |... →
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Oh my god, I’m so getting one of these!!!
FastMac’s iV Plus turns your iPhone into a universal remote with customizable interfaces and built-in TV listings.
iPad/iPhone Apps and Games : Square iPhone Credit... →
Remember the great “Square” payment system that will let pretty much anybody process credit card payments using their iPhone and a dongle? Well, it’s around the corner, and we just got some updates…
Inspector Scrutiny →
It’s been said before that web inspectors—Firebug, Dragonfly, the inspectors in Safari and Chrome, and so forth—are not always entirely accurate. A less charitable characterization is that they…
Preview: Meebo’s Simple, Quick, And Slick iPhone... →
Though they’re not planning to unveil it until next week, Meebo has given us a sneak peek at their iPhone app. My immediate reaction? This will be my go-to messaging app on the iPhone.
Inventor of Frisbee dies, aged 90 →
The man who invented the Frisbee in the 1950s, Walter Frederick Morrison, dies aged 90 at his home in Utah.
Free Hugs →
Today, I found out that you can get arrested for holding up a ‘free hugs’ sign. FML
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Coffee Kiss ceramics →
Ceramics artist Tsang Cheung Shing created this double-take-inducing piece entitled “Ying Yeung,” referencing both a beverage of mixed coffee and tea and the idea of love and marriage….
Quick Tip: Different Layouts for Different Widths →
It’s becoming more and more common for web sites and applications to provide different layouts dependent upon the user’s window size, or resolution. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways,…
2010 Olympic Winter Games: Gowalla Gold! →
In Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games? Well, you may not be competing for a medal, but you can still take home some sweet (virtual) souvenirs: Just in time for tonight’s opening…
Web Form Innovations on Mobile Devices →
Mobile Web forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: mobile screens are smaller; connection speeds are slower; entering text is harder; and so on. As a result,…
Super simple Twitter avatars →
If you use Twitter avatars in your web site or app then you need to check out tweetimag.es. It’s a great free service courtesy of Joe Stump that allows you to reference any…
Bill Gates on iTunes in 2003: "Jobs Has Us... →
The Comes vs. Microsoft antitrust case is proving to be a gold mine for embarrassing company communiques. First there was former Windows chief Jim Allchin’s 2004 “I would buy a Mac today if…
Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2 -... →
In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns…