Links tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Expression Engine vs Textpattern / journal / hicksdesign
Thoughtful comparison of both CMSs. (via Daring Fireball)
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Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering | Nate Koechley’s Blog
A presentation that nicely describes a role that is close to some of what I do. Interesting to see new (in a larger scale) roles become identified and solidified. (via Infovore)
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24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts
A good guide on how to use Google Charts. (via Simon Willison)
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Movable Tweak: Migrating CustomFields to Movable Type Professional 4.1
Phew, glad there’s a way to do this.
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Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
Some say nostalgia is a disease but it’s still nice to see Webmonkey return. I first learned PHP and MySQL here. It has a lot to answer for.
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Lefora Free Forum Hosting
Hosted forums. New, so I assume it’ll improve; the forums themselves are less than beautiful at the moment.
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Widgetfinger - Simple Content Management for Simple Websites
Looks like an awesome thing that would be great for a huge percentage of small business websites. I was a thrown by being asked for ‘Company Name’ first off when creating an account though. (via Infovore)
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Timeframe
Very nice calendar selector widget. (via Daring Fireball)
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New clearing method needed for IE7? | 456 Berea Street
So I don’t need to Google the clearfix fix again.
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A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
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Python-by-example
In case I ever get round to Python (via Simon Willison)
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YouTube - Design Coding
Rap: “Please don’t use tables even though they work fine, when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time. Make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide, remove font-type, font-color and font-size.” Awesome. (via Haddock)
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Freaky People Productions » Blog Archive » Google Maps causes Safari 1.3.2 to crash
If you use the Google Maps API your Javascript may have recently started crashing Safari 1.3.2. This is how to fix it.
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Asaph - phoboslab.org
Nice-looking and very simple weblog CMS focused on collecting links, photos and quotes, rather than writing stuff yourself. (via Daring Fireball)
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TCPDF - PHP Class for PDF
Yet another PDF-generating PHP class. An improvement on FPDF (does UTF-8 for a start), but I had some problems getting tables to look just how I wanted.
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FlickrSLiDR - Embed Flickr Slideshows within Your Site
Very nice way to include a slideshow of Flickr images in your website.
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:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: For attaching files, use Paperclip
Ruby on Rails image uploading thing. (via Infovore)
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Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
Good notes on a SXSW panel. I wonder where I’d fit in, but also wonder why I’m doing all this theatre nonsense when reading stuff like this makes me so excited.
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Using Smarty Templates With PEAR HTML_QuickForm
A handy guide that’s moved since I last bookmarked it.
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Litmus: Pricing and signup
24 hours passes now available for this Browsercam-like site for testing web pages and emails against different rendering engines. (via Daring Fireball)
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Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks
Spacing things out horizontally with CSS. (via Simon Willison)
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Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded
I keep Googling this, so bookmarking it might be easier.
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PhpRtf development blog » About PhpRtf Lite
Make RTF documents using PHP. Free, LGPL licensed. Guess which PHP to RTF code I’m trying first.
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Smart Systems - Created the RTFGen which is a RTF generator for PHP
Basic version is free, others run to hundreds or thousands of euros.
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FPDF Library - PDF generator
Another PDF-generating PHP class.
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R&OS: pdf class
For making PDFs using PHP, as used by Dompdf.
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Dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
Uses CSS rules to style the PDF output I think (can’t get the demo to work…).
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Rails for PHP Developers
Sounds ideal for when I eventually get round to Ruby on Rails. (via Haddock)
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Improve website load time by 500% with 3 lines of code | Aciddrop.com
Hmmm, interesting… (via Yoz)
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Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library » About…
I’m sure this will come in handy sometime. (via Yoz)
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DebugBar - IE extension for web developer : DOM inspector, Javascript debugger, HTTP headers viewer, Cookies viewer
Looks handy for those times one has to painfully test things in Internet Explorer. (via Simon Willison)
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A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design
Zeldman on how too few people understand what web design is. Hence dumb flashy sites winning web design awards. (via Infovore)
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Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft
This has come a long way since I last looked at this kind of thing. Now comes with a handy installer.
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YSlow for Firebug
Not entirely sure about the A-F grading, but handy plug-in for measuring page loading times and weights. (via Rodcorp)
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Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com
File input fields are stubbornly resistant to beautifying. A new way to make them pretty. (via Daring Fireball)
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Blueprintcss - Google Code
In-progress CSS framework for constructing grid-based web page layouts. (via Daring Fireball)
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Infovore » The CSS Redundancy Checker
Checks your CSS file for all the selectors that aren’t used in the list of HTML files or URLs you feed it. Clever Tom.
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Introducing templatemaker | Holovaty.com
Python thing. Point it at some HTML files and it will make a template with holes for the unique strings in the pages. (via Daring Fireball)
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Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
Apparently definitive version of why mindlessly doing sites as XHTML is wrong. (via Dotcode)
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OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot
Looks prettier than the three mediocre wireframe palettes I grudgingly use. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : bgcolor follies
Over a couple of years I’ve collected a folder full of links to sites that make this careless mistake with the aim of writing just such a post. Now no need. (via Daring Fireball)
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : E-mail is not a platform for design
On why non-HTML email is still the way to go. Would be good to have some more facts and figures for ammunition when needed… (via Daring Fireball)
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Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
The kind of thing I keep meaning to read up on. (via Kottke)
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Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
Very handy alternative to Submit buttons, and I feel I should have already known this, but it appears to have problems in IE. Like most things. (via Kottke)
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Living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
One-click install of Apache, MySQL, PHP for running sites locally on your Mac without all the httpd.conf etc malarkey.
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MTV Labs: The New HTML MTV.com
MTV.com has ditched its Flash site for an HTML version after user feedback. (via Blackbeltjones over Twitter)
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Launch (Ftrain.com)
Paul Ford, excellent on the inevitable public responses to a site launch and one’s reaction to them.
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What do you do when your success … sucks? (Skrentablog)
A look at how Topix worked out why the site didn’t work and what they did about it. (via Haddock)
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Kelvinluck.com: jQuery date picker
I’ve been dabbling with jQuery and this plugin makes doing just what I wanted as easy as it could be.