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Designers and Developers, Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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Designers and Developers, Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

At The Future of Web Design in New York, the final session of the day was a panel discussion on the frictions and misunderstandings that often arise between designers and developers working together. The panel was chaired by Liz Danzico, while putting across the the developers’ point of view we had Joe Stump and Chris [...]

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Tables: The Next Evolution in CSS Layout

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Tables: The Next Evolution in CSS Layout

Today, a talented web designer must be a modern-day MacGyver—that 80s TV action hero who could turn a rubber band and three tin cans into a serviceable aircraft. Turning the average site design mockup into a living, breathing slice of HTML and CSS is a comparably delicate miracle, which must be accomplished using whatever makeshift [...]

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Add Undo and Redo to Your Web Application With Cappuccino

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Add Undo and Redo to Your Web Application With Cappuccino

Undo and redo are two of the most essential features in any real rich application experience. In many cases, your user has already turned these commands into reflexes, automatically hitting the proper keys and expecting the right thing to happen. Unfortunately, this is often left unimplemented by developers when making the transition from the desktop [...]

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Getting Through The Tough Times

Friday, October 31, 2008

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Getting Through The Tough Times

At the Future of Web Apps Expo 2008, Tim Bray was the keynote speaker on the second day. Unlike many keynotes (which generally tend to be upbeat), Tim spoke about the economic tough times ahead, and what you can do to get though them. There’s some very solid advice in this presentation. The Future of Web [...]

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Designing User-Centric Web Sites

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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I’ve been noodling on how best to present a coherent vision of user-centric website and web service design and think I came up with at least a basic model that will serve my purposes. It’s made up of identity, friends or contacts, services, activities and notifications. To get concrete, let’s take The Future of Web Apps [...]

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How To Solve A Problem Like The Browser

Thursday, September 18, 2008

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The internet would never have become the phenomenon it is today without the web browser; the simplicity of the browser concept allowed the Web to grow rapidly. Developers just had to write basic text documents using a simple markup language (HTML) and the browser took care of everything. As websites became web applications developers still [...]

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Review: Silverback, Usability and the Mac

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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Review: Silverback, Usability and the Mac

Silverback is an application from Clearleft that aims to make simple usability testing easy and within the budget of all web professionals. Nate Klaiber tests it out in this review.

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Accessibility In Suit And Tie

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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The gap between the high-end standards-aware freelance developer with the freedom to choose and the corporate web worker is a wide one, and it doesn’t look as if it’s likely to narrow any time soon. But, just as not every start-up employee skateboards from meeting to meeting coding Django on her iPhone, not every business [...]

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Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Let’s face it, developing web applications is, in some ways, getting more and more complex as time goes on. Sure, there are frameworks like Django, Rails or Seam to help you get sites built in record time with minimal resources, but at the same time applications are becoming more complex and more demanding. Being able [...]

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Developing a better CMS

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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For sometime now I’ve dreamed of creating useful software for my fellow designers and developers. Recently I’ve spent my time turning that dream into a reality. I’m not an expert or a billionaire, just an average guy wanting to share my experience with you in hopes you can take something valuable away from it. Enjoy. Dissecting [...]

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