Wow, fattest site on the web? Anyone got any fatter?? Initial numbers may not look like much (“shaved 1.57 seconds from our average page load, dropped our bounce rate 1%, and our exit percentage 2.5%”), but when you put those … Continue reading
Category Archives: best practices
Today’s Readings
I’ve been wanting to write this article about RWD for so long, glad someone better at writing finally did it for me! Beautiful collection of animated, responsive navigation menus. Demo 4 is my personal fave… Hilarious! Bah! Ligature Icon Font … Continue reading
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Using cookies to track customer visits to your site before is fairly common practice. Using cookies to then display higher prices to them in order to scare them into hurrying to buy your product now, means you fucking suck. I … Continue reading
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Pasquale D’Silva suggests some really slick techniques for helping users understand where they are, and what the heck is happening. Hyperlapse certainly got a lot of press since arriving on the scene, and deservedly so, what a way to discover … Continue reading
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An impressive-looking, responsive grid system: CSSWizardry Grids. And speaking of responsive grid systems, I don not even want to think about the maths that went into making jQuery Nested work… But resizing my browser and clicking the various device icons … Continue reading
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If you’ve been following all the hype and hub-bub around WebRTC lately, it seems like it is coming of age very quickly! Now how about adding data channels for possible file transfer or screen sharing, or why not videoing in … Continue reading
Site Changes & Optimizations
With my recent move from GoDaddy to Dreamhost, I decided to take the time to make a few other modifications, both under the hood and to the UI. Below are a few notes on the process, for anyone interested… Continue reading
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Not exactly a believable orbital trajectory, but the maths behind this circular CSS3 animation is provocative none-the-less. A great slideshow from Addy Osmani regarding why and how to achieve the perfect frame rate in your animations. In case you don’t … Continue reading
Ah… That Fresh Feeling When You Start Using a Brand New Host…
I have been dreading and putting-off a migration off of GoDaddy for so long, because, well, migration of a WP site just plain sucks… It never works right the first time around, especially when you have a multisite, and it’s … Continue reading
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When I first heard about Firefox OS, I remember thinking “Great, just what we need in mobile, is another variable…” I, also, however, said something very similar when Google Chrome was first announced. And that seems to have gone pretty … Continue reading