Browsers
A Good Website Requires 1 3/4 Cups of XHTML
I recently spoke to a group of web design students at a local college. My talk primarily focused on content management and JavaScript frameworks but I also talked in broad terms about our philosophy when creating XHTML/CSS layouts. I would argue there is no perfect recipe for laying out a website. Everyone seems to have [...]
Mozilla Phone – Help Design your Next Phone
As most of my regular readers know I am an iPhone user. I love my iPhone, don’t get me wrong. Even still, there are a number of features I would like to change or additions I wouldn’t mind making. If you’re in the same boat as me then you might want to start watching the [...]
Top 10 Free Unconventional iPhone Applications
While it is a widely accepted fact that iPhone owners are smarter and more beautiful than commoners, I have begun to see a lack of creativity amongst my brethren. In the last few weeks, I have seen list after list of “Top X iPhone Applications,” or “Mr. IThinkImSoImportant’s Prefered iPhone Apps.” While these lists are [...]
I Hope I Can Outlive Internet Explorer 6
What is so great about Internet Explorer 6? I can’t really see anything. It was released in 2001, it doesn’t offer PNG support, and it has buggy CSS rendering. For some reason many have not upgraded to Internet Explorer 7. I recall when IE7 was first released there was a fair amount of pushback from [...]
The Digital President
A lot has been said about Barak Obama’s digital strategy in the 2008 presidential election. In fact, I have made other posts discussing specific tactics he was able to successfully leverage to build an online following as well as some insight into how plans to carry that into his presidency. While Obama’s campaign successfully utilized [...]
It Takes Lots of Water and Steroids to Grow a Web Developer
I had a conversation with a programmer friend yesterday morning that got me thinking about what it takes to be a successful programmer. Programming, whether it be for the web or software, is a unique and difficult business. The tough thing about being a programmer is that it is impossible to know everything you will [...]
How to do a Local Site Search Using Google Ajax Search API
It has been awhile since I have put up a tutorial. Today I am going to give a quick overview of using the Google Ajax Search API to do a local site search (It is much easier than it looks). I hadn’t really played with the Google Search API until yesterday but it is pretty [...]
Palm Introduces New webOS Platform
I apologize to anyone not interested in the mobile phone market for the frequency of mobile related posts over the last few weeks. There has been a lot to talk about in the mobile phone market lately. The latest announcement comes from Palm a company many thought was had been phased out of the mobile [...]
LinkTogether – A Community for Web Designers
First, I would like to welcome all my new subscribers. I have been getting an abnormally large amount of traffic the last few days and I have also seen a big increase in RSS subscriptions so if you’re new around here, welcome! Yesterday, I saw a press release from Network Solutions announcing a new web [...]
Yahoo Graded Browser Support – Which Browsers Your Website to Support
One of the most frustrating things for a web developer is creating cross-browser compliant websites. According to Yahoo there are over 10,000 browser brands, versions, and configurations and that number is growing. With this many combinations it is virtually impossible to support all variations. At the same time it is important for a website to [...]