Category Archives: web development

The UX Test Kitchen is Now an Award-Winning Agency!!

Well, what do you know? It turns out that if you take a group of dedicated individuals that all try really hard to do the best that they can, some times people actually recognize it!  :-) The UX Test Kitchen … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

As many of you already know, Windows 7 is ready to go on sale and Craig Buckler has written a nice wrap-up on Microsoft’s latest offering.  In releasing Win7, Microsoft may have finally invented a reason that could compel me … Continue reading

The Orphaned Starfish Foundation Site Launch and Gala

The UX Test Kitchen, a non-profit interactive agency that I co-founded and for which I serve as lead developer, recently launched its latest client site: The Orphaned Starfish Foundation.  The Orphaned Starfish Foundation (OSF) is a non-profit that works to … Continue reading

jQuery.concrete – a New Library, and Approach, to Applying JS

After reading the Ajaxian article about jQuery.concrete, I was interested in learning more, so I opened the tutorial (note that while you are viewing the tutorial that there is a “Next >>” link at the top next to the page … Continue reading

Steve Souders Takes on Website Performance and @font-face

Once again Steve Souders proves why he is the go-to source for website performance in this in-depth study on how @font-face affects website performance. The main obstacles are FOUT (in FF) and what I will call a “page-blocker” in IE … Continue reading

“YQL: YnotQL?” Presentation

A presentation I recently gave about the power of YQL! Widget courtesy of Google Web Elements Enjoy, Atg Top⇪

A Valid XHTML & CSS Lightbox (no JavaScript)

Ok, I know this is slightly old, and I know there have been a few posts about it, but seriously, how can this have not completely revolutionized the way EVERYBODY does lightbox-style overlays??? The perfect combination of POSH and fairly-basic … Continue reading

Check if HTML5 and CSS3 Work in Your Browser

This will be a brief one, but worth it, I think.  Allow me to introduce you to FindMeByIP.com. I’m not sure why the developer feels the need to display my IP Address back to me, something about that makes me … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Tamura Jones provides a very thorough write-up about Google Chrome Frame.  I am not a fan of the detection and implementation method (i.e. adding a meta tag to every page, just to catch some users, but it is what it … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

This will be a sporadic post, while I scramble though a week+ of unread RSS feeds, catching up from time spent developing and launching the latest client launch for the UX Test Kitchen… If you have ever tried to create … Continue reading