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- Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions11 March 2010, 3:58 am
Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus and lists tend to work much better than open text fields.But constraints breed innovation, and mobile forms are no differ...
- Uncovering Toy Cameras and Polaroid Vintage Effects (With Photoshop Tutorials)10 March 2010, 6:23 am
Since its emergence, the digital photography market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, and some people announced the death of silver-based images. This is not all lie, and yet old-fashioned images have been particularly popular in the past few years. All we do seem to do now is try to recreate the atmosphere of those bygone times anyway. Blurry, distorted and over-saturated images are not just a fad anymore. People have beca... - Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location8 March 2010, 3:56 pm
I thought I could not be out-geeked. With a background in radio, and having dabbled in the demo scene on the Commodore 64 and hung out on BBSes and IRC for a long time and all the other things normal kids don't quite get, I thought I was safe in this area.Then I went to my first WhereCamp, an unconference dealing with geographical issues and how they relate to the world of Web development. Even my A-Levels in Astronomy did not help me there. I was out-geeked by the people who drive... - Common Questions About Design Professionalism8 March 2010, 1:48 am
The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful, the joy of getting paid to pursue your passion can be tainted by the less joyous realities of the professional world. You see, no matter how skilled you are as a designer, unless you are equally prepared in professional matters, your prospects will be limited and your circumstances compromised. This is true whether yo... - Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites6 March 2010, 2:47 am
... - Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers5 March 2010, 5:32 am
Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. I believe it's vital that professionals in different creative fields supplement their online learning and research through well-edited and high-quality print publications. Print magazines, more often than not, are well-researched and are headed by top-notch editorial staff, usually containing informat... - Beautiful Illustrator Artworks By Artists Around The World4 March 2010, 3:10 am
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful software for illustrating that allows users to produce beautiful artwork, technical illustrations, and even graphics for both print and the web. Adobe Illustrator is a multipurpose vector illustration tool and its versatility makes it the most preferred choice among many professional artists and designers.In the past, we've published a collection of Beautiful Photoshop Illustrations By Artists Around The World, and this is the latest post that will s... - How To Market Your Mobile Application3 March 2010, 3:59 am
App Store is a competitive environment. Against more than 140,000 apps, all screaming for attention, how do you make sure your app gets its time in the spotlight? What does it take to get good media coverage? How do you get people to talk about your app—and, ideally, how do you get them to buy it and show it to their friends?Following the simple rules laid out below, you will increase your chances in the battle for fame and glory. These tips might seem rudimentary or in-your-... - Web Design Criticism: A How-To2 March 2010, 5:56 am
Web design is a relatively young field. It's youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go. I came into my first job as a Web designer for Boeing back in the mid-1990s, with no formal design training. I was lucky to get some training on the job, and I would guess that my experience there was similar to that of many who are reading this article.I had the opportunity t... - The Future Of CSS Typography1 March 2010, 2:20 am
There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it's not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we'll look at some useful techniques and clever effects that use the power of style sheets and some features of the upcoming CSS Text Level 3 specification, which should give Web designers finer control over text.Keep in mind that these new properties an...
- 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials8 March 2010, 4:40 pm
Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.... - The IE6 Resistance Must Be Stopped!6 March 2010, 11:30 pm
*****... - Finger Fail: Why Most Touchscreens Miss the Point5 March 2010, 6:38 am
You're not crazy, and neither are we: The touchscreen on the Apple iPhone really is more responsive than the screens on the BlackBerry Storm, the Motorola Droid, the Nexus One..... - New Design Inspiration: 17 Creative Bicycle Designs[pics]3 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Here we have a most spectacular collection of creative bicycle designs, for you to enjoy & gain inspiration from.................... - The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials1 March 2010, 8:00 pm
In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web.... - How To Create An Elegant Web Layout In Photoshop27 February 2010, 1:20 am
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an elegant web layout in Photoshop using thin lines, subtle gradients and beautiful typography.... - What I learned about you through 4 redesigns27 February 2010, 1:10 am
"I have been blogging for around 3 years now and the blog has been through 4 different designs. At first I redesigned the blog to have a better aesthetic look, but then I started to redesign it based on user feedback. Over the course of 4 different designs, here are some things that I learned."... - Japanese Design Hover-Chair for Elderly/Lazy People (Video)24 February 2010, 4:00 pm
The hoverchair can float up to 330 pounds around a room on a cushion of air.... - Surreal Photoshop Documentation Of A Relationship24 February 2010, 11:00 am
Thad and Sarah Lawrence use Photoshop to create a surreal photo album documenting their relationship.... - Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop: The Most Popular Tips21 February 2010, 8:20 am
Photoshop stepped onto the scene 20 years ago today, introducing "'Shopped!" into the language of internet pundits everywhere. Check out our most popular Photoshop tutorials....
- PHP Quick Profiler
Introduction In our company, code reviews play an integral part in the development process for making quality software. We opt for a mentor style approach with Wufoo, where a developer works on a segment for a period of time and then passes it up to a more experienced developer for review. ...... - How Not to Pitch to a Startup
Several months ago, Infinity Box, our company, and thus Wufoo were listed in a publication targeted at investors, angels and venture capital firms as a promising young startup. We have, unfortunately, not been able to track down the source of this recommendation (investors seem odd about keeping their sources mysterious), ...... - The Importance of Writing Well
Three years ago, when we were just starting Wufoo, if you had asked me what skill I would've liked to have had instantly downloaded into my brain Matrix-style to help us succeed, I probably would have chosen something industry specific like advanced PHP, CSS, or database knowledge. Most of our ...... - How We Prepare a Demo
Introduction While I've highlighted best practices and resources on how to pitch your ideas in the past, I thought I'd take some time to share exactly how we prepare for our demos when we've been invited to showcase Wufoo at conferences, events and VC boardrooms. We've spent a lot of time ...... - Beautiful Code Roundup
Over the last few months, the Wufoo Team has been steadily refactoring their code base to work with a new more flexible and more powerful API we've developed on the backend. In that process, I've had the opportunity to rewrite some of Wufoo's oldest code from the founder's earlier, more ...... - Be Kind to the Color Blind
Introduction Hi, my name is Chris Campbell and I have a color vision deficiency. Like roughly 7-10% of all males, my deuteranomaly makes it difficult to differentiate between some colors, like red and green. Color deficiency, or color blindness as it's commonly referred to, doesn't mean that I or people with ...... - Rich Application Architecture Roundup
When Chris, Kevin and Ryan approached Alex and I to develop Wufoo Unplugged, a desktop application to view Wufoo form data offline, we ended up choosing .NET because in addition to it offering the features we needed like multi-threading, file system access and pre-built Lucene libraries, it was also the ...... - Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text
In the past on Particletree, we've shared some of our favorite resources and guides for helping the color challenged and uninspired get their chromatic deliciousness on. As a designer, getting to choose the colors is often the part of the job I like the best. However, there are times when ...... - Reasons to Use Inspiring Tools and Brands
Earlier this week, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote a bit about why he thinks indulging in aesthetically pleasing tools should be a guilt-free experience. It was a response to a post by Matt Maroon on News.YC and if you're interested, you should also check out Matt's counter-response. Hoping to add to ...... - Object Oriented PHP Memory Concerns
It's hard to imagine pushing the limits of object oriented PHP so far that your web servers choke, but the truth is those limits are reached faster than you think. We've run some tests over at Wufoo and it turns out that any sort of mass object creation is pretty ......
- Background Position X and Y2 March 2010, 2:17 pm
Every now and then I look at using background-position-x and background-position-y but can never seem to find a definitive and up-to-date resource. To save myself the trouble in the future, I'm documenting it here. Positioning via separate X and Y values is a feature that Internet Explorer introduced but never made it into a W3C specification. Any recommendations to add it to the spec have been denied. Why have separate X and Y values? I believe that there are several reasons why you may wish to... - Review: Logo Design Love17 February 2010, 12:22 am
Logo Design Love is a book written by David Airey that covers the whys and hows of brand identity development. The book is broken down into three parts: The importance of brand identity, the process of design and keep the fires burning which looks at how to find motivation and inspiration. It's a light 200 pages with readable type and plenty of examples. David Airey aims this book at the aspiring designer by not only covering the design process but also covering the process of project scope and... - Multiple Backgrounds and CSS Gradients1 February 2010, 1:54 am
CSS3 features are making their way into the various browsers and while many are holding off on implementing them, there are those who are venturing ahead and likely running into a world of interesting quirks across the various platforms. Two such features that I have been having the pleasure of enjoying are the use of multiple backgrounds and CSS gradients. I'm covering both features because multiple backgrounds by itself is simple enough, as are CSS gradients, but combining the two is where thi... - Safari and Transparent Borders23 January 2010, 3:26 pm
I had noticed this little bug on my own site. In the footer, there's a 5px border with the colour set using rgba. In Safari, it's as if the semi-transparent borders overlap each other in the corners and the values are compounded. This creates little squares in the corner of my squares. Not quite what you'd expect. Firefox and Opera (10.5; I didn't test in 10.10) render this as you'd expect, with a consistent colour surrounding the block. In testing some other border handling, I noticed that the...
- Enabling Accessibility in Flex applications11 February 2010, 1:50 am
As conscientious developers we try to ensure that our applications are streamlined, self explanatory, and easy to use. We work hard to make sure they look good and lend themselves well to a given workflow, but often forget that not everyone experiences our work in the same way. From dyslexia and color blindness to full visual impairment and mobility issues, a percentage of the population face obstacles that can make using an application difficult or even impossible. In this article Toby examines... - Get Started with PHP on Windows with SQL Server Express8 February 2010, 10:38 pm
In a recent article, we saw how easy it is to get a web server up and running on Windows with PHP, IIS, and SQL Server Express using the Web Platform Installer. In this article, Akash explains how to use those tool together to build a simple web app. ... - Buying Your First Website: A Case Study2 February 2010, 7:09 pm
Buying your first website property can certainly be daunting, especially if you’re unsure how to go about investigating your potential purchase. Flippa.com’s new marketing manager, Luke Moulton, walks us through the due diligence behind a sample website purchase to show us the ropes. ... - Dedicated Hosting Comparison: a Review of 10 Dedicated Hosting
Plans28 January 2010, 4:37 pm
When your site or application grows beyond what can be supported with shared or even VPS hosting, perhaps it’s time to look for a dedicated server. Countless companies provide dedicated hosting, and the features of their offerings can be difficult to untangle. In this week’s article, Khurram guides us through ten different entry-level plans and points out their pros and cons to help you make an informed decision. ... - Being a Kick-ass Employee19 January 2010, 3:41 am
Whether you’re in an entry-level position or you own your own business, there are important concepts that you should integrate into your working life. As well as increasing your value in the job market, it also enhances your worth to your current employer. In this article, Chris covers the top five tips for being a kick-ass employee. ... - Flashy Graphs Sans Flash12 January 2010, 9:12 pm
You could be forgiven for thinking that Flash was the only way you can add cool interactive graphs to a website. In this week’s article, Alex shows us just how far this is from the truth, introducing us to the excellent gRaphaël graphing library for JavaScript. ... - Build an Ajax Tree with YUI4 January 2010, 9:44 pm
Yahoo’s YUI JavaScript library has a wealth of components that work well together to create impressive user interfaces. In this article, Darrin shows us how easy it is to leverage YUI’s TreeView component, in order to create a dynamic expanding tree control that loads content via Ajax. ... - A Crash Course in Django21 December 2009, 8:59 pm
Web development frameworks enable you to build highly functional applications very quickly, and are increasingly seen as a must for any new project. Python-based Django bills itself as “the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines,” and after following along with Akash’s crash course, I think you’ll have to agree! ... - Data Visualization with Flex, Part III16 December 2009, 10:20 pm
In this final installment of his Data Visualization with Flex series, Toby builds on the work from the first two parts to take our visualization to the next level. The final product allows you to visualize how often various tech key words are used on the SitePoint forums, and how they are connected. Even if you’re new to the series, it’s worth having a look to see the visualization in action! ... - SEO for Multilingual Marketing14 December 2009, 10:23 pm
Multilingual marketing should be considered in every international marketing initiative. Yet, when it comes to web site localization, most businesses only go so far in creating a literal translation of their English copy. In this article, Christian demonstrates why SEO should be implemented in every language on the Web. If you fail to localize your translated text, you stand to do your business a great disservice. ...
- Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies11 March 2010, 1:58 am
Microsoft are reporting high Windows 7 sales since the OS was launched in 2009. Craig examines how the figures compare to Vista and whether Windows 7 has really been the success Microsoft needed. Related posts:How to Enable Windows 7 GodMode "GodMode" is a great trick that allows you to access...Windows 7 Pre-Orders Sell Out on Day 1 Pre-orders for Microsoft Windows 7 have sold out on day...Windows 7: the First Month Review, Part 3 In the final of Craig's 3-part review, he looks at... ... - Express Yourself with Creative Prototypes10 March 2010, 5:38 pm
In today's tutorial, user experience expert Shane Morris takes Microsoft's Prototyping tool SketchFlow for a test drive. Related posts:All Aboard the SQL Server Express! In today’s tutorial, web application development specialist Akash Mehta explores...Your New PHP Editor: Expression Web 3 Thought visual editors were a thing of the past? Well...Oooh, Shiny—a Flash Front-end for Twitter! Ever wondered what it would take to build a Flash... ... - All Scripts used in jQuery: Novice to Ninja are now FREE to download10 March 2010, 4:40 pm
For the first time we’re offering the entire code archive for free. Not just the code used in the sample chapters, all code used in the entire book! Related posts:SitePoint Podcast #50: jQuery: Novice to Ninja Kevin Yank is joined by Earle Castledine (@mrspeaker) and Craig...It’s Easy to Fall in Love with jQuery A framework that condenses lines of clunky JavaScript into elegant,...Improve Your jQuery Knowledge with the Source Viewer The jQuery source viewer is a great tool which allows... ... - 10 Notebook Applications for Managing Ideas10 March 2010, 12:24 pm
There are a lot of notebook applications out there; Alyssa compiled a list of 10 for you to explore. Related posts:How I Use Evernote to Manage My Ideas As a follow-up to a previous post, today Alyssa shares...How To Use Evernote To Create A Mood Board Jennifer has a look at how Evernote can help you...Swipe This! Use A Swipe File For Inspiration Swipe files are a great way to compile inspiring ideas.... ... - How I Use Evernote to Manage My Ideas10 March 2010, 5:05 am
As a follow-up to a previous post, today Alyssa shares her process for managing and organizing ideas. Related posts:10 Notebook Applications for Managing Ideas There are a lot of notebook applications out there; Alyssa...How To Use Evernote To Create A Mood Board Jennifer has a look at how Evernote can help you...21 BlackBerry Apps for Professionals Anything that gives you an opportunity to work without being... ... - The Problem With Opera10 March 2010, 2:06 am
Few people have a bad word to say about Opera. But that's possibly because so few people use the browser. Craig pinpoints some of its problems and suggests a number of ways Opera could attract a higher audience. Related posts:Can Opera Ever Become Popular? Opera is one of the fastest and most innovative browsers....Is Opera 10.5 the Best Browser Ever? Could this be the fastest, best-looking, and most configurable browser...Why Opera 10’s User Agent Smells Bad The user agent in the soon-t... - Google Buys Picnik9 March 2010, 5:06 am
Last week, Google announced it had added Picnik to its stable of acquisitions. Jennifer takes a look. Related posts:19 Impressive Online Image Editors There's no reason image editing should break your budget, or...Have We Become Too Dependent on Google? Google's recent downtime caused a tidal wave of failures way...Store Any File on Google Docs Google will shortly allow any type of file to be... ... - Is Opera 10.5 the Best Browser Ever?9 March 2010, 4:06 am
Could this be the fastest, best-looking, and most configurable browser available? Craig reviews the newly-released Opera 10.5. Related posts:Can Opera Ever Become Popular? Opera is one of the fastest and most innovative browsers....Opera 10 Final Released Opera 10 is the latest and greatest browser from the...What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 1) Opera 10 is now available as a beta download. In... ... - New Logo For Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Unveiled8 March 2010, 3:01 pm
Jennifer takes a look at the newly unveiled logo for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Related posts:New Branding Revealed For Winter Olympics 2014 The official logo for the Sochi Winter Olympic games was...Super Bowl XLV Logo Unveiled By NFL Design blogs are buzzing about the new NFL logo which...Microsoft to Support IE6 Until 2014 Microsoft has confirmed its commitment to support Internet Explorer 6... ... - 5 Powerful Ways to Improve Your Focus8 March 2010, 5:13 am
Monday morning means back to work, whether you're ready or not. How do you get focused and ready to concentrate? Related posts:4 Ways To Be More Productive Focused productivity is important for everyone, but especially for those...5 Ways Microsoft Could Improve Internet Explorer 9.0 How would you improve IE9? Craig provides his top 5...The Ultimate Guide to Killing Work-at-Home Distractions If you work from home, you may be faced with... ...
- SEO Health Checks - Regular Housekeeping Tasks for Your Website's SEO10 March 2010, 1:21 pm
Posted by richardbaxterseoTechnical problems, errors and surprise releases are all regular features in the day to day management of a website when you’re an SEO. There’s no doubt that maintaining a quick, error free and well optimised site can lead to long term traffic success. Here are some of my tips for regular checks you should be doing to stay on top of your website to maximise your search engine performance. General Error Checking General errors can crop up continually with an... - SMX West 2010 - Man on the Street Interviews10 March 2010, 3:28 am
Posted by jennitaNote: This post will make you smile, possibly even laugh. It won't however teach you much about SEO. You've been warned. Last week I attended SMX West in Santa Clara, California and took a couple flip video cameras along. I thought it would be fun to do "man on the street" interviews, somewhat along the lines of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" episodes on The Tonight Show. Another great idea I had was to employ the help of Dana Lookadoo from Yo! Yo! SEO to help with ... - Optimizing Search Conferences: How Differing Incentives Create Audience vs. Organizer Issues9 March 2010, 4:28 pm
Posted by randfishWARNING: Get ready to read with this one. There aren't a ton of fun graphics or quick bullet points, but I do promise that if you read through, you'll feel much more knowledgeable about the topic, and likely get more value from organizing, speaking or attending an event. Over the past 6 years, I've attended nearly 100 conferences on search, online marketing, startups and technology. I've given presentations or sat on panels at nearly all of them. I've organized our own SEO... - Targeting Multiple Keywords vs. Singular Keyword Focus8 March 2010, 3:23 pm
Posted by randfishDespite being a seemingly simple topic, this one seems to stymie even experienced SEOs. There's a natural conflict that creates the issue - the more keywords you target on a single page, the less you need to link build and optimize (for both search engines and user experience/conversion rate) on many pages. To answer this question in a logical and truly optimal fashion, you need to start with the answer to two other important questions: How many of these keywords carry th... - Search Marketing Success Stories7 March 2010, 1:10 pm
Posted by RobOusbeySearch Engine Optimization covers a huge range of tactics - all of which can bring direct benefit to a website. In this post, I've shared examples of different tactics used at different websites, and the effects that have been seen. If you're considering an SEO campaign for your site, or are trying to persuade someone else to invest in internet marketing, I hope this post will help demonstrate the potential of internet marketing. The post includes real screen shots from Googl... - Strategic Link Building: How to Productize Link Acquisition and Dominate Your Niche5 March 2010, 3:32 am
Posted by randfishThis week, despite still being seriously under the weather (see this week's sad WB Friday), I flew down to SMX West to speak on the Link Building Strategies panel. Although I'd wanted to put more work in and deliver a better presentation, I received some very kind words afterward and requests from folks to share the deck via the blog. Before I embed the actual deck, though, I need to provide some context (as this isn't a wholly self-explanatory presentation). Link building has,... - Whiteboard Friday - Twitter as an SEO Research Tool4 March 2010, 1:34 pm
Posted by great scott!Sure, you use Twitter as a social media tool, but have you ever considered it as an SEO research tool? No? Well watch and learn this week to find out how you can harness it in a whole new way. Now that social signals (particularly Twitter) are becoming more important in the engines, they can help you pinpoint when a keyword is going to trip the 'Query Deserves Freshness' switch. If you can figure that out, you can gain a big competitive advantage by publishing fresh conten... - Introducing New Features for Open Site Explorer4 March 2010, 1:14 am
Posted by Danny Dover Today I am proud to announce the launch of the second version of Open Site Explorer. Since SEOmoz has officially moved out of consulting, we are now able to put our full resources into building fantastic SEO software. We want to thank all of you who provided feedback on the first version of the tool for your guidance and we look forward to hearing more from you in the future. Now enough with the chit chat, on to the new features! New Features: Top Pages on a Doma... - Ballmer, Sitelinks & Other Favorites from SMX West Day 13 March 2010, 4:56 am
Posted by jennitaSMX West 2010 kicked off with quite a bang (or was that a yell?). Since Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer was the keynote, people arrived early to ensure good seats. The music playing before it started was amazing, it helped to create an excitement in the room that I really had never felt before a keynote before. I had attempted to save a seat for someone up front, but there was just too much demand and had to give it up. That's the sort of thing that happens at a great concert, no...
- Web Standards for E-books9 March 2010, 1:00 am
E-books aren’t going to replace books. E-books are books, merely with a different form. More and more often, that form is ePub, a format powered by standard XHTML. As such, ePub can benefit from our nearly ten years’ experience building standards-compliant websites. That's great news for publishers and standards-aware web designers. Great news for readers, too. Our favorite genius, Joe Clark, explains the simple why and how.... - Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web9 March 2010, 1:00 am
You’ve probably heard that Apple recently announced the iPad. The absence of Flash Player on the device seems to have awakened the HTML5 vs. Flash debate. Apparently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for Flash. Either that, or the HTML5 community is overhyping its still nascent markup language update. The arguments run wide, strong, and legitimate on both sides. Yet both sides might also be wrong. Designer/developer Dan Mall is equally adept at web standards and Flash; what matters, he says... - Accent Folding for Auto-Complete23 February 2010, 2:00 am
Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a bit of history and theory, then illustrate a neat hack called accent-folding. Accent-folding has its limitations but it can help make some important yet overlooked user interactions work better.... - Training the Butterflies: Interview with Scott Berkun23 February 2010, 2:00 am
Whether it’s in front of a huge audience or a handful of executives, smooth public speaking is essential to a successful web design career. Yet most of us are more afraid of speaking in public than we are of death. In a lively give-and-take, Liz Danzico interviews Scott Berkun, author of Confessions of a Public Speaker, for tips on how to prepare for public speaking, how to perfect your timing, and what to do when bad things happen.... - Words that Zing9 February 2010, 1:00 am
When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, we must ensure that the site says or does precisely the right thing at precisely the right time. Understanding the rhetorical concept of kairos can help us craft a context for the opportune moment and hit the mark with appropriately zingy text.... - The Problem with Passwords9 February 2010, 1:00 am
Abandoning password masking as Jakob Nielsen suggests could present serious problems, including undermining a user’s trust by failing to meet a basic expectation. But with design patterns gleaned from offline applications, plus a dash of JavaScript, we can provide feedback and reduce password errors without compromising the basic user experience or losing our visitors’ trust.... - Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II26 January 2010, 1:00 am
In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design. Explore how to incorporate SVG in a cross-browser friendly manner, including using SVGWeb to ensure that the SVG shows in Internet Explorer. And discover the unique characteristic that makes SVG ideal for page backgrounds: scalability.... - Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I26 January 2010, 1:00 am
Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else. Yet SVG can actually enhance a site’s overall design, and can be made to work in even the most stubborn browser. In Part I of a two-part series, Shelley Powers covers important basics of working with SVG, including browser support and accessibility.... - The Survey, 200915 December 2009, 2:00 am
For the third year in a row, good citizens of the web, we ask that you take a few minutes to tell us about your professional skills, educational background, career prospects, job benefits, and more.... - Letting Go of John Hancock8 December 2009, 1:00 am
Because clients expect everything to be faster, better, and simpler, web professionals must take an instant, foolproof, paperless, modern approach to how clients approve proposals and sign contracts. Implementing an instantaneous contract agreement helps to get projects off the ground, attract clients on tight timelines, and prevent potential delays. All it takes is a little PHP and some PDF magic....
- 3 Free Memberships Available to Elegant Themes Club19 December 2009, 6:33 pm
Over the past two years the premium themes market has continued to innovate and prices have steadily declined to the point where you can find a nice premium theme for a very affordable price. With that said, there still is not a better premium themes deal available than the Elegant Themes club, which gives you [...]... - WordPress 2.9 Officially Released19 December 2009, 5:18 pm
If you’ve visited your WordPress site’s dashboard in the past 24 hours you probably noticed that WordPress 2.9 is now available to download. I know many people like to wait to upgrade to give theme and plugin authors a chance to create updates, but the new changes in WordPress 2.9 seem to be playing nice [...]... - Page Sensitive Multi-Level Navigation29 November 2009, 7:56 am
While most sites don’t need incredibly deep page navigation there are situations that justify a hierarchy beyond the typical 2 – 3 levels. Unfortunately that can be cumbersome for top navigation drop-downs (more than 1 level of drop down is too much IMHO) so another solution needs to be found. I ran into just such [...]... - Elegant Themes Announces New Custom ePanel1 October 2009, 6:53 pm
Over the past year the premium themes market has continued to grow and expand, causing designers to search for ways to separate themselves from the competition. Because many buyers choose to customize the design to meet their personal needs, it only makes sense for the focus of designers to instead turn to building custom settings [...]... - Free WordPress Theme Framework: Biblioteca15 September 2009, 5:48 pm
After redesigning WPShout a couple of months ago, I decided to add some advanced features to the theme, package it up and release it into the wild. The result? Biblioteca. It’s a mix between a magazine theme, a tech blog theme, a bloggy theme and a theme framework – it looks quite nice out the [...]... - Security Reminder: Upgrading Your WordPress Blogs7 September 2009, 1:40 pm
While I was away over the weekend, it appears that a large number of bloggers who use WordPress have been hacked and a lot of damage has been done. It seems this problem has shown up for a large number of people, including some very high profile bloggers. Among them was Robert Scoble, whose blog [...]... - Become an Awesome WordPress Theme Developer7 September 2009, 8:20 am
The past year or so has seen a massive rise in the popularity of WordPress, particularly the idea of using WordPress as a CMS to run literally any type of site. You’ll now see WordPress not only powering blogs, but major news sites, eCommerce sites, Twitter clones, the lot. The massive rise in WordPress’ popularity [...]... - Separating Trackbacks from Comments in WordPress 2.7+16 August 2009, 8:39 am
Back when WordPress 2.7 was released, the WordPress team introduced a completely revamped comment form that included integration of threaded comments into the core software, introducing some dramatic changes with how comments are handled. Unfortunately, this change broke one of the most popular comment hacks, separating trackbacks from comments. Since then, several people have stepped up [...]... - CustomTheme.com Officially Launches12 August 2009, 6:43 pm
Over the past year I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Leland through his excellent WordPress resource, Theme Lab. While most designers have turned their attention to building premium WordPress themes, Leland is one of the few who has continued to release quite a few completely free WordPress themes which are of a comparable [...]... - Few Improvements to the WPHacks.com Design12 August 2009, 2:44 pm
This post is just a heads up to let everyone know that the WordPress Hacks theme has been updated with a few new features added, courtesy of my friends at Blog Design Studio. Some you will notice right away, while others you may not. Here are the notable changes included with this new update: Threaded Comments – Now that the [...]...
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