Anyone with a few extra days on their hands… http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/usabilityedu-25-incredibly-useful-usability-cheat-sheets-checklists/ Alex: Did you write this one?? http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/25-essential-freeware-apps-for-web-designers/ Josh: This one’s for you! http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-check-out-all-the-cool-new-stuff-the-new-york-times-is-working-on-to-save-itself-2009-5 A brief, painful, but useful lesson in life: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/05/15/less-is-more/ Happy reading, Atg Top⇪
Category Archives: web development
Font matrix
Assuming you’re not using @font-face to get your fave font into your pages, you might find this font matrix helpful. I really only find the first few columns useful, those being the Mac OS and Windows columns, but maybe you’ll … Continue reading
CSS Debugging Tips
So who doesn’t use border:1px solid red (or some similar expression) for debugging CSS? From Eric Meyer comes these very slick CSS debugging tips! Way cool!! Atg Top⇪
5 Rarely-Used CSS Properties
Craig Buckler writes a nice, quick article for SitePoint listing five (somewhat) rarely used CSS properties. I was pretty familiar with the first three, but the last two are pretty interesting… Happy CSSing, Atg Top⇪
New Font Replacement Technique v.2
A short while ago I wrote about a new font replacement technique, Cufón. In short: Cufón is an alternative to sIFR, which relies on both Flash AND JavaScript to work, but dutifully embeds the font into the SWF, so there … Continue reading
Use a Favicon to “Finish” Your Websites
We’ve all seen them, but we may not know what they’re called: those tiny little graphics that appear to the left of the URLs in our browser location bars, or appear to the left of our Bookmark titles when we … Continue reading
Obscure Safari 3.x Rendering Bug
This was brought to my attention by a colleague, Stephen Tang, so I’ll let him tell the story: I found an obscure rendering bug in Safari 3 when whitespace or a line-break appears in the inline box with side padding … Continue reading
How to Build APIs and Why It Matters, by Google
From the Masters-of-APIs themselves, comes an insightful presentation on how to create APIs. A worthwhile read for anyone needing to create one. Or just interact with other people, for that matter… Thanks, Alla! Happy APIing, Atg Top⇪
Apple Safari Browser for Windows PC
Continuing on my last post’s theme, developers have to always develop for multiple browsers on multiple operating systems (OS). Typically, in order to develop a website and ensure that it works properly in both a Windows OS and a Mac … Continue reading
Test if a File or URL Exists or Check Last Modified Date
Jim Ley writes a very in-depth article about using Ajax calls to test the validity of URLs, test for file existence, or check last-modified dates of files. While the benefits of checking last-modified dates and testing for a valid URL … Continue reading