It’s nearly the holiday season, and what better gift to give your website visitors than sprucing things up with, what else, @font-face?! Jonathon Snook comes across a really great technique for trimming the fat from font files and avoiding FOUT! … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2009
Today’s Readings
I recently read a post from Nicholas C. Zakas about the pitfalls of using empty <img> tags in your HTML. Essentially, when most of the world’s favorite browsers (Opera and Firefox 3.5+ excluded) encounter a tag like <img src=”” >, … Continue reading
Today’s Reading
Still one of my favorite sites to look at, and easily one of the best examples of progressive CSS enhancements, 24Ways offers a really nice summation of where @font-face is right now, what you can expect from the various browsers, … Continue reading
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A few quick articles from or about “something Google”… First of all, with the recent death of GeoCities, it surprised me to stumble across a Post that mentioned Google Sites. I somehow was not aware they offered this service! And … Continue reading
Google’s “Browser Size”: What Does it Really Tell You?
Check out these couple links before proceeding: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/browser-size-tool-to-see-how-others.html http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-browser-size.html For those that skipped right past the above links, to summarize: a couple lads at Google, in their 20% time, have created a system that tracked the browser window size … Continue reading
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A couple good reads from Ajaxian recently on new Google features: Speed Tracer: Google announces new tools and more thanks to the GWT team A busy Chrome week: Extensions, Web Sockets, and more This post seemed intriguing, until I actually … Continue reading
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By a show of hands, how many of you make wireframes for your new client sites? Okay, good. Now, those of you that do, how do you share those wireframes with your clients? Do you save them as PDFs and … Continue reading
Develop Mobile Apps Using Nothing but HTML, CSS and JS
Mobile app developers (and wannabes), listen up! If you already are a mobile app developer, you probably specialize on a single platform, be it the iPhone, BlackBerry, or other, because they all require that you use a different language to … Continue reading
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A rather good article comes from 24Ways about what makes a website successful. My fave comment is “Do you ask your clients why they have a website?” When I first started in this business, if anyone asked me about making … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Okay, this will be brief, I just wanted to show a couple really cool articles I recently read… :-) First up is a truly inspiring look at a few new HTML5 entities from 24Ways. Remy Sharp focuses on two new … Continue reading