Articles Tagged with Development
- Raising the Bar with Adaptive Templates
- A recent project got me thinking about combining Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds with CSS constants.
- Comparing Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3 Beta 4
- I took a week to give Safari 3.1 a fair shot for Web development, here are my results.
- Revisiting Progressive Enhancement in CSS
- John Resig recently posted a bit on progressive CSS enhancement, which got me thinking a bit more about a post I wrote some time ago.
- Improving Your Process: Client Communication
- Although I’ve tried to optimize communication patterns in as many ways as possible, I’ve found that (like Web design and development) experience is the best thing you can do. Use your experience to alter the way you do things to improve your communication process both internally as well as with clients. Effective communication leaves much more time to do what we love to do, create.
- Working with Background PNGs and Internet Explorer 6
- Using PNG images as backgrounds can be very helpful and useful, but there are some things to keep in mind when working with Internet Explorer 6.
- IE8, Version Targeting, and the Ruckus it’s Causing
- Last week was quite enlightening for Web developers the world over. With the release of A List Apart No. 251, including Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 by Aaron Gustafson and From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey by Eric Meyer, the biggest debate of the year was sparked.
- An Interview with Jonathan Snook
- Recently, I was able to pull Jonathan Snook away from his many projects for a few minutes to have a quick chat.
- Improving Your Process: Sitemaps and Design Preparation
- I’ve found a new use for sitemaps. Even though they’re not sitemaps which are classic in the sense of the word, they have really helped our process on a number of projects, and the end product is better because of incorporation in the design phase.
- Future of Web Design NYC 2007 Recap
- A couple co-workers and I were able to attend the Future of Web Design 2007 in New York City. Here’s a bit of a recap of the day as a whole.
- Mobile Web Design Book Review
- I would absolutely recommend this book to any Web developer who is currently building websites. The mobile Web will continue to grow and it is important that professionals have a grasp on the pros and cons of the environment. This book is one of the few which focuses specifically on this subject, and in my opinion will become a staple read.
- Please do not Use CSS Frameworks
- I give the authors of CSS frameworks credit for making an idea a reality, but I hope the use of CSS frameworks is limited to testing environments and the like, as I can’t see their value in the overall Web Standards movement. I don’t mean to step on any toes or anything, it is just my personal opinion.
- Designing the Obvious - Book Review
- Designing the Obvious can be put in same ring as the excellent resource Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug, Defensive Design for the Web by Matthew Linderman with Jason Fried, as well as Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger.
- Improving Your Process: 9 Ways to Improve Yourself
- Offering a short list of ways I feel can help you become a better designer/developer. In the spirit of the Improving Your Process theme as well as 9rules, I present: 9 Ways to Improve Yourself as a Web Designer/Developer. This list strays from the technical side of things and sticks to a more generalized overview of your process as a whole.
- Textpattern Solutions Book Review
- As an introduction to Textpattern, Textpattern Solutions by Kevin Potts, Robert Sable, and Nathan Smith with Mary Fredborg & Cody Lindley is a fantastic way to learn how to use Textpattern. I’m very glad I was able to use this book as a guide. The language used is very easy to read, and the book was well thought out and detailed.
- Will the iPhone Affect the Mobile Web? How?
- What affect (if any) will the iPhone have on the Mobile Web?
- Are Sitemaps a Thing of the Past?
- The goal of many Web professionals is to produce high quality work that makes the most of their medium. Products are designed to be both aesthetically pleasing as well as elegantly useful. There are many tools and techniques that can be used to make using any website that much easier to use. One thing I don’t find myself running across very often any more are sitemaps. Have sitemaps become a thing of the past?
- Improving Your Process: Web Branding Style Guide
- Branding is a very involved process that can really make or break a company image. A strong brand can help propel a client to the next level, while a brand that is lacking will hold it back from reaching full potential. A brand guide for the Web can be very helpful with the continuity of your design.
- Improving Your Process: Site Planning Guides
- Sometimes improving your process not only helps yourself, it can benefit your clients as well. Using your time more effectively allows a client to receive more time and effort from you focused on enhancing the project as opposed to spending time resolving miscommunication. Site planning guides are a good way to use direct client input to help steer your project.
- Using SciTE with TextMate Style Snippets
- SciTE is a very powerful and capable editor. Using a Snippets plugin developed by Mitchell, you’re able to mimic some of the functionality that has made TextMate as popular as it is.
- Improving Your Process: CSS Techniques Part 1
- This group of tips revolves around some CSS techniques I find myself using constantly. I’m sure you’ve heard of some, if not all, but hopefully something comes across as new and possibly helpful. This list consists of just a few ideas I keep in mind while developing, and there are more to come in future articles.
- Source Order Can Create Usability Disasters
- Source order is often overlooked, but can have disastrous effects on usability.
- My Development and Design Process
- Inspired by a post put together from Jonathan Snook, here’s a look into my development process.
- Admiration for Typography on the Web
- It’s been said that Web design is 95% typography, and I can definitely agree with that. Many times a site design could be improved extensively with a quick change of a font-family.
Keeping that in mind, how does one decide on a good looking font-family for their design? First and foremost, if you’re primarily […]
- The Best Browser Extensions for Web Development
- The Web Developer Extension and Firebug extension have proved to be most valuable to me when developing for the Web. Here’s an account of the features I find myself using every day in hopes that I can pass some information along to those who may not make use of these features.
- Prioritizing Web Usability: Book Review
- Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger is a really valuable resource for anyone in the business of Web. The statistical data backing up the entire book really gets their message across and I definitely recommend this book.
- The Pros and Cons of the base Tag
- The base tag can be both a good thing and a bad thing in certain circumstances… personally I prefer to define a ‘base’ URI using a different method…
- Flash, JavaScript, and Providing Alternative Content
- Providing alternate content is becoming increasingly important given the rapid advancement in Web technologies. Take the extra step and provide graceful degradation for your applicable content.
- The Many Faces of the link Tag
- The
link can be used for much more than linking external stylesheets. Not only can browsers take advantage of the tag, it can help out with SEO too.
- My Latest Take on Image Replacement
- The new design got me thinking about image replacement techniques and I think I’ve come up with a good technique for solving the problem of readers with images disabled and CSS enabled.
- It Was Time For A Change, So I Did
- It was time for a redesign and reorganization so after a solid weekend of work, I proudly present Monday By Noon Version 2.
- Defensive Design for the Web Review
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Oct 16, 2006 by Jonathan Christopher product
★★★★
Personally, I’m a big fan of the thought process behind Bulletproof Web Design. The idea of creating a design that can withstand virtually any change — within reason — seems great to me. Beyond making your site design bulletproof, you can also do quite a bit […]
- Taking Hold of your Submit Button
- Coming up with a good method for marking up forms can be one of the more difficult things as a designer/developer. They have a tendency of looking awkward and ugly and can be the low point of any project you’re working on. There have been countless articles written and techniques developed with the […]
- Spread the Word About Standards
- Last week there was a great article written by Roger Johansson in which he wrote about Why Standards Still Matter. Shortly thereafter another article was written by Robert Nyman who also had a few things to say about The Web Standards War. Both articles give a refreshing look into the area of writing […]
- Linux and Web Development Part 2
- It has been over two months since my last writeup about using Linux for Web development. I thought now would be a good time to revisit that subject and write a bit about my findings after using the new operating system for a little while.
- Beginning to Style Your RSS Feed
- If you’re anything like me, RSS has completely changed the way you browse the Web. It has become much easier to manage the abundance of content I want to read across the net; mostly due to RSS. No longer must I make my way down a list of bookmarks, hoping to find an update here and there.
- Linux and Web Development Intro
- There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Linux. Recently there has been a whole lot of buzz going around the Internet about a particular distribution of Linux dubbed Ubuntu. I recently switched to using Linux full time from Windows and here’s my experience so far.
