Bookmarks tagged with “webdevelopment”
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Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture
Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven’t tried it).
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Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site
$30, looks lovely, but can’t be installed or administered using Win IE. Doh.
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Digerati Consulting: awstats on TextDrive
How to install AWStats on a TextDrive server. Actually worked.
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Peastat
“Peastat is a simple, free, ‘live’ web stats analyser.”
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Changes to the Movable Type Platform for v3.3 (Movable Type Documentation)
For when I get round to upgrading.
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Movable Type Beta Weblog - Converting from dirified title to basename
Because I keep losing this article and need it occasionally.
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SIMILE | Timeline | Documentation
DHTML thing for creating nice scrollable timelines. (via Yoz)
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Web Development with… Safari : journal : hicksdesign Ο°
If you download a WebKit nightly build there’s a handy inspector for debugging CSS problems in Safari.
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Vitamin Features » HTML Emails - Taming the Beast
For future reference. Although I really hope I never ever need it (via Plasticbag).
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Amazon.co.uk: Building Scalable Web Sites: Books
Cal has a book out! Sounds interesting and very useful.
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AMK design | Last 10 tracks on your website
Simple but good PHP code for putting your Last.fm recent tracks on your site. Inspired me to rewrite all my stupidly over-engineered code for gyford.com along the same lines. (via Kottke)
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ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox
Another colour scheme generator. I need all the help I can get.
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Color Scheme Generator 2
There are loads of these around, but this seems a nice example.
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Mod_rewrite Cookbook - FrontPage
Very handy resource for mod_rewrite recipes. It’s like some arcane magic to me.
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Aplus :: z-pos
Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
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Quick guide to somewhat advanced JavaScript
Helping me brush up my entrenched Web 1.0 JavaScript skills.
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SortedTable example
Dynamically sorted and rearranged HTML tables using Javascript.
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Yahoo open up their UI libraries… (plasticbag.org)
Links to all Yahoo’s shiny developer things in one handy place for me to never get round to reading.
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dBug
Very handy PHP class for displaying easily comprehensible variable information. Has no doubt been referred to as “var_dump on steroids” by someone. (via Tim/twisty)
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Particletree · Quick Guide to Prototype
Another guide to using the Javascript library. One day I’ll use it rather than just post links to documentation. (via Tom Carden)
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Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time
Some of the most commonly repeated functions. (via Tim/twisty)
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Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications
Library for Ajaxy drag-and-drop type stuff, extending prototype.js. (via Tim/twisty)
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O2b.net » Seedmagazine.com — Lookin’ Good
On using Movable Type as a CMS for Seed magazine’s website. Mainly because I need the four MT plug-ins mentioned and I’ll forget their names otherwise. (via Kottke)
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Using prototype.js v1.3.1
Unofficial documentation for the Prototype Javascript library. (via Tim)
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PHP5 Exception Use Guidelines
Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.
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Ludoo » PHP 101 - PEAR error handling
Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.
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Notes on PEAR_Exception - phly, boy, phly
Trying to get my head round using Exceptions.
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RailsOnPairNetworks in Ruby on Rails
How to install Ruby on Rails on a Pair.com shared server. Apparently a bit slow though, as FastCGI or mod_ruby can’t be used.
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Edevil’s weblog » Javascript libraries roundup
Handy collection of Javascript libraries for complicated things for future reference. (via Yoz)
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ColorMatch 5K :: the original
complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)
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Color Blender
Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender
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EZPDO » Comments on “Cross the Divide, Object Persistence in PHP”
Response to some of the criticisms in the previous review.
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Crossing the Divide: Object Persistence in PHP by Theo Spears (PDF)
Review of DB_DataObject, Propel and EZPDO. I’ve been using the first, but the last sounds tempting for PHP 5.
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Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code
Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.
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[thelist] XHTML 1.0 Strict -no target attribute allowed?
Almost needed this, might need it again.
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New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
Almost needed this, might need it again.
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The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer
An even newer way of getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport or the content.
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Slashdot | DHTML Utopia
Review of a book on “Modern web design using JavaScript and DOM”. Ajax and stuff. Sounds good.
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Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom
Some handy tips about coding, systems and organising companies. (via Yoz)
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SiteVista
Another Browsercam alternative.
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Browsershots
Open-source, distributed processing, free version of Browsercam. Probably more interesting than useful. At the moment.
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Super simple clearing floats - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style
A remarkably non-hacky way to get containing divs to expand to the full depth of their floated descendants (ie, goodbye “clear:both” elements?). (via Tim)
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FooterStick › css › Learn › solarDreamStudios
Make a footer stick to bottom of the viewport where appropriate. (via blech)
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Monket Calendar - Wiki - monket.net
Lovely PHPy and Ajaxy calendar interface. Mmmm, the web’s getting nice.
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Six Apart ProNet Articles - yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
May give it a whirl sometime. (via Yoz again)
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Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr
Now coming to London… very tempted…
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Maratz.com » archive » Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
Summary of IE CSS hacks. Nice to see them covered clearly in once place.
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JavaScript Archive Network
New, could be handy when it fills up a bit.