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| Performance Testing Comes Back With Boomerang Boomerang is an innovative project from the Yahoo Developer Network which could help you test the responsiveness of your web application on end user systems. Related PostsApache Performance TestingBesiege Your Web Application – Load Testing over HTTPOSCON 2006: Rock-solid Web Development: Testing Web Apps |
| Google, Verizon and the Net Neutrality Debate Has net neutrality been threatened by the Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal? Craig examines the paper and gives his opinion. Related PostsGoogle Launches Tools to Test for Bandwidth ThrottlingFrance Considers “Google Tax” on Internet Advertising.NET on the NET March 2-9: MIX Hangover Edition |
| Get More Mileage from Your Online Content with Publisha Publisha is new way to distribute your content across multiple platforms in one fell swoop. Alyssa takes it for a test drive. Related PostsHollywood Actors Want $759 per Day Residuals For Online Video Content13 Tools to Back Up Your Social Media Content5 of the Best Facebook Fan Page Apps for User Engagement |
| How to Awaken a Slumbering Blog Is your blog boring, dull or drab? Alyssa says you can shake it awake. Here are a few of her tips for giving your blog a boost and getting yourself excited about blogging again. Related PostsHow to Get More Comments on Your BlogCreate a Sneeze Page For Your Blog7 Places I Find Blog Topic Ideas |
| British Government Rejects IE6 Upgrade Petition The UK Government has rejected calls for IE6 to be upgraded within their departments. Craig discusses their statement and the problems with the petition. Related PostsUK Citizens Petition For Government IE6 UpgradeWhy Corporations Don’t Upgrade IE6 and How Chrome Frame Could HelpJust When You Thought IE6 Would Die… |
| 10 Reasons Why Software Project Estimates Fail IT project estimates are notoriously bad, but who's to blame? Probably everyone. Craig explains further... Related PostsHow To Estimate Time For A ProjectHas project management gone out the window?Windows 7 Launch Marred by Software Pirates |
| UX Design: What it is, What it Takes, and Where it’s Going James Mansfield spoke to three of the speakers from the upcoming UX Australia conference, to find out more about the emerging field of UX design: what it is to be a UX designer, how one becomes a UX designer, and what the future holds. Related PostsMarking your own examUsability for DevelopersDesign with Intent Toolkit Released |
| Google Wave’s Goodbye Google is scrapping their Wave system after less than a year following disappointing adoption rates. Craig looks at the reasons why it failed. Related PostsSurf on Google Wave from SeptemberWill You Surf on Google’s Wave?Will Palm Wave Goodbye? |
| Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers who were fast running out of hair to pull out — to improve JavaScript's somewhat primitive API, to make up for the lack of unified implementation across browsers and to make it more compact in its syntax. All of which means that, unless you have some odd grudge against jQuery, those days are gone — you can actually get stuff done now. A script to find all links of a certain CSS class in a document and bind an event to them now requires one line of code, not 10. To power this, jQuery brings to the party its own API, featuring a host of functions, methods and syntactical peculiarities. Some are confused or appear similar to each other but actually differ in some way. This article clears up some of these confusions.You may be interested in the following related posts:Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My CareerThe Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript ImplementationDeveloping Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues |
| Designers, “Hacks” and Professionalism: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy? "The need is constant. The gratification is instant." That’s from the American Red Cross, and it was copy that I plugged into a poster for a blood drive at a comics convention. Sitting beside an image of the sexy and well-endowed Vampirella, the words took on a different meaning. Oops!But I was struck by how these words are a perfect assessment of our society. We want it all, instantly and as cheap as possible. We are a Walmart culture. Fast and cheap have entered our every pore and changed our society, our lives and our livelihoods. Compounding our daily worries and pressures, we now fight to keep our industry professional and profitable. Clients want our blood for free, and the “hacks” are designing us out of existence. Most people blame the laptop and easy-to-use software. Many blame art schools for favoring quantity over quality. Can any of these be blamed merely for doing business? If someone who has no idea what they're doing wants to purchase a computer and a slew of graphics software and call themselves a designer, then they're in business. |
| Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In Recently I released a WordPress plugin for Google Analytics that adds a tracking code and dozens of various pieces of meta data to blogs. Since the release of version 4, I've updated it 6 times, to the point where it's now at version 4.0.6. In this article I would like to share with you my experiences in maintaining this and other WordPress plug-ins and common good practices that I've distilled from that work. The updates that I released had a couple of purposes, ranging from bug fixes to new features and fixes in documentation. While all of these are nice to talk about, the bug fixes are the ones you'll learn the most from, so let's start by going through these. |
| Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk about “high standards” gives way to “good enough,” and people realize that deadlines are aptly named. During the last-minute crunch, someone may well wonder, how did it come to this? Could it have been prevented?Every Web project has deadlines. But not every designer or developer deals with them the same way. Because a deadline marks the end of a project, everyone involved in the project must understand the deadline’s role. Most projects follow a schedule or have an estimated date by which they must be completed. The concept is simple then: when the work takes longer than expected, deadlines get missed. |
| 50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creating a foundation for timely good-quality results. The problem is that there are just way too many tools, services and resources out there, so it has become difficult to keep track on them and find those tiny little time-savers that will spare you headaches and save time in a long run.And this is where we come in. Back in old days, Smashing Magazine used to publish lists after lists, with plethora of links that covered different topics all somehow related to web design and development. We have undergone quite a development since then, and are now publishing almost only in-depth articles — written by some of the best professionals in the industry. However, useful, carefully prepared and filtered lists are still useful, and therefore we keep publishing them as well.Below you'll find 50 useful tools and time-savers for web designers and developers. Among other things, you will find recently released tools, useful reference sheets, articles and further resources. Such posts are prepared over months, each containing resources found, reviewed or bookmarked by the Smashing Editorial Team. We hope that at least some of them will help you improve your workflow!You may be interested in the following related posts:50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires |
| A Six-Pack of New Twitter Apps Alyssa lists six new Twitter apps for you to try out. Have you found any Twitter gems lately? Related Posts5 New Twitter Apps to Play with Over the Weekend4 Twitter Tools to Make Your Followers HappyTwitter Joins Digg and Slashdot in Sending Server Crashing Traffic |
| SitePoint Podcast #73: Cease and Desoup This week, Patrick, Stephan, Brad, and Kevin discuss the latest legal ruling on cookie stuffing, how Chrome’s new six-week update cycle may harm browser adoption, whether code validation is still worthwhile, and the early results we’re seeing from content paywall experiments at The Times. All this, plus our host spotlights, on this episode of the SitePoint Podcast! Related PostsSitePoint Podcast #59: Speaking of FailSitePoint Podcast #9: SitePoint at SXSWiSitePoint Podcast #5: The Principles of Successful Freelancing |
| Easy Code Checking With Unicorn: the W3C’s Unified Validator The W3C has provided Unicorn - a unified validation tool for all your mark-up which is HTML5-compatible. Craig provides information about the service and integration instructions for Firefox's Web Developer Toolbar. Related PostsW3C Validator UpdateW3C Markup Validation Service adds experimental HTML5 supportLogValidator from W3C |
| IE9 Beta Release – September 15, 2010 The first public beta version of Internet Explorer 9.0 will be released within the next month. There are many reasons to be excited, but Craig discusses why you should be prepared before the installation arrives. Related PostsMicrosoft Reveal IE9 Google Release Chrome 5 Beta Microsoft Confirm IE9 Development Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. |
| The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh after the start screen loaded. However, unlike in a game, we are not immediately launched into a tutorial level to learn the ropes in this new world — what to avoid, how to progress, etc. And if we feel overwhelmed by our newbie status, we may not be able to find our way to the tutorials and guides that the community has put together to help us sort all of this out. So, feeling very alone in all this is easy. But this is the great thing about being part of the online development community — that you are never truly alone. Your experience may be unique in its details, but it’s not generally, which is great because the community is very open to sharing its experiences and offering guidance to help newbies navigate the twists and turns we are sure to face as we continue down the developer’s path. In most cases, all you have to do to get some helpful advice is to venture into the social media neighborhoods and ask the community at large. At times, the answers just pour in. |
| 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition It's hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick overview. The collections from 2007, 2008 and last year are still useful, but some of the themes are outdated or updated now.Looking back over these previous theme articles, you can clearly see how and why WordPress has rapidly matured into the CMS powerhouse it is today. With all of the features that have been added and improvements made with every new WordPress version and with its ever-increasing popularity among the design and development community, the quality of free themes is evident. Developers are continually pushing WordPress' boundaries, giving us today's outstanding free theme collection. |
| SitePoint Podcast #75: Awesome Overkill A massive hour-long episode this week, covering Facebook boxes, Twitter buttons, Adobe fonts, and jQuery charts. Also this week, find out why it’s still so popular to beat up on Internet Explorer, and just how many lines of code it takes to build a completely blank website. Related PostsSitePoint Podcast #59: Speaking of Fail SitePoint Podcast #45: The One Without Kevin SitePoint Podcast #70: Youth, Business, and Podcasting with Dave Moyer and Jeff Chandler Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. |
| Improve Your E-Commerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are interested in, potential customers have only images to interact with. Ultimately, the softer, tastier, flashier and more attractive your products look to shoppers, the more confident they'll feel about purchasing from you and the better your conversion rate will be.While any product can look great in a photo (sometimes deceptively so), keep in mind that your images should match your website’s overall aesthetic and your company’s image. Let’s start with a few great examples of how online retailers have incorporated high-quality product photos onto their websites. In this article, we will focus on images of actual items, rather than models, events or landscapes. |
| Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38 Bug? Does your application fail when storing future dates? Craig explains what causes the Y2K38 bug and provides a number of solutions for worried developers. Related PostsHow To Create an Offline Web Application Sat Nav – the Killer Application for Offline Web Technology? PHP is Fifteen Today! Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. |
| Do-It-Yourself Market Research Market research is a necessary part of business, even for freelancers. Alyssa gives us a few tips for gathering useful information through market research that we can easily do ourselves. Related PostsCurrent Browser Market Shares and Trends, August 2010 Current Browser Market Shares and Trends What to Consider Before You Sell a Digital Product Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. |
| 5 Steps to Have Fun and Profit From IE6 IE6 need not be the web developer's worst nightmare. Craig provides a 5-step program to help you overcome IE6 client negotiation hurdles and earn more money. Related PostsMicrosoft Encourages IE6 Upgrades With Charity Donations Why Corporations Don’t Upgrade IE6 and How Chrome Frame Could Help 7 Simple Steps to Meeting Deadlines Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. |
| jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that introduce an element of uncertainty into any code base. A good plug-in saves countless development hours; a bad plug-in leads to bug fixes that take longer than actually building the component from scratch. Fortunately, one usually has a number of different plug-ins to choose from. But even if you have only one, figure out whether it's worth using at all. The last thing you want to do is introduce bad code into your code base. The first step is to figure out whether you even need a plug-in. If you don’t, you’ll save yourself both file size and time. |
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