Category: Web development

November 23, 2011

Adobe Flash to the world:
“I’m not dead yet!”

Filed under: Articles,Flash,Flex,Web development - 23 Nov 2011

Adobe Flash - "I'm not dead yet!"Flash isn’t dead. Adobe is continuing development of the Flash Player as well as Flex for desktop web browsers. Adobe’s recent announcement about abandoning development for …

January 1, 2011

Responsive Images – solving the image overhead problem

Filed under: Responsive Web Design,Web development - 01 Jan 2011

When implementing responsive web design techniques, one issue raised by detractors is that the largest image needed for any layout gets downloaded automatically resulting in potentially large bandwidth overhead – an undesirable side effect especially for mobile devices that …

December 31, 2010

The Year in Pictures – USA Today 2010

Filed under: Responsive Web Design,Web development - 31 Dec 2010

http://projects.usatoday.com/gallery/news/2010-news/

“A really nice example of responsive web design from an unexpected source.” – via http://adactio.com/links/tags/responsive

A photo gallery website using responsive web design techniques.

November 15, 2010

Just say “no” to speculative design

Does your web design company do speculative design work?
We don’t.

What I’m talking about is creating potential website layouts to show a prospect how their new website might look during the sales process. It’s not uncommon in our experience …

August 6, 2010

Responsive Design – the future of web design

We’ve entered a new period of transition on the web, just after things seemed to be getting comfortable. I mean things were nice. We reached a least-common-denominator screen size of 1024px. (Good riddance 800 x 600!) All the modern browsers …

December 4, 2009

24Ways: HTML5 heads toward desktop apps

Filed under: Flash,Flex,Resources,Web development,Web standards - 04 Dec 2009

Breaking Out the Edges of the Browser” by Remy Sharp reveals the future: HTML5 has features that enable web developers to write applications that work both online and offline. One commenter stated that “When this really starts to grow …

24Ways.org: Working with RBGA Color

Filed under: CSS,Design,Web development - 04 Dec 2009

The awesome “advent calendar for web geeks” can be found at 24ways.org. December is my favorite time of year for many reasons, one of which is getting to read this great series of 24 web-related articles from around the …

June 23, 2009

Web browser testing: It doesn’t have to look the same

Filed under: Browser testing,Design,Web development - 23 Jun 2009

A trend is clear in the web design and development world: web sites do not need to look the same in all web browsers.

An Event Apart Boston 2009 “the design conference for people who make web sites” just wrapped up …

April 5, 2009

CSS: Attaching style sheets

Filed under: Resources,Web development,Web standards - 05 Apr 2009

What are the differences between using @import vs. <link> when attaching an external style sheet to your HTML web page? i liked this article “What’s the Difference Between @import and link for CSS?” from About.com. It’s comprehensive and well …

March 21, 2009

Styling visited links in web sites

Filed under: Usability,Web development - 21 Mar 2009

I don’t have a consistent approach to this yet… I’ve been hunting around today reading articles on different techniques for styling visited links on a web page.

I agree with this comment on usability advantages of styling visited links differently from …

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