Archive for July, 2008
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for July 29
Set Up OpenDNS - Webmonkey
The Web Developer’s Resource
John Shirley Message Board: Law prof and cop agree: never talk to the police, even if you’re innocent.
Law prof and cop agree: never talk to the police, even if you’re innocent.
One-Second Spotlight
Because the spotlight lasts for a few seconds, the user has enough time to redirect attention to the item and study the details of the event, such as look at an item’s new value.
…From a technical perspective, the Yellow Fade Technique is usually achieved by suddenly switching the element’s background colour style from white to yellow, then using “Scheduling” to run through a continuous spectrum of background colours, starting with yellow and ending with white.
Javascript Progress / Percentage Bar with CSS by WebAppers
Sometimes, when we are building websites and web applications, we need a percentage bar / progress bar to show the progress of a specific task. However, it is very difficult to find a working and easy solution without using Flash.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for July 28
How We Decide What To Charge You | Blue Flavor
After receiving lots of comments on a bite-sized post I recently wrote on a related subject, I got to thinking: Maybe I should spend some time talking about how we decide what to charge you (even though Keith has already done so, in our pricing guide).
…And if we find that we’re going well above and beyond what we’ve outlined in a job order, we either address it directly via a change request, or simply decide that this is what it takes to get the job done.
Amazon.com: Nikon SB-600 Speedlight Flash for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras: Electronics
Amazon.com: Nikon SB-600 Speedlight Flash for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras: Electronics
Q311 How do I disable the “Back” button of a browser?
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JW Image Rotator
The JW Image Rotator (built with Adobe’s Flash) enables you to show a couple of photos in sequence, with fluid transitions between them. It supports rotation of an RSS, XSPF or ASX playlists with JPG, GIF and PNG images, a wide range of flashvars (variables) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive javascript API.
JavaScript Kit- Ajax (XMLHttpRequest object)
Click here for a complete JavaScript Reference, including array, string, document. window, and more. Also included are documentation on JavaScript operators, statements, loops, global functions, reserved words etc
JavaScript Kit- JavaScript Reference
Click here for a complete JavaScript Reference, including array, string, document. window, and more. Also included are documentation on JavaScript operators, statements, loops, global functions, reserved words etc
JavaScript Kit- DOM (Document Object Model) Reference
This is a no-nonsense, easy to follow DOM reference for JavaScript.
20 More CSS based Navigation Menus For Your Projects | Social CMS Buzz
At the start of the month we posted an article featuring 20 of the best css based navigation menus that could be used in your own development projects. This article is a continuation of that post and features 20 more excellent CSS based Navigation menu techniques, most of which come with code snippets and examples. You should now have more than enough menus to fall back on for inspiration in your next design project, some may even give you the push to revamp your current menu navigation.
John Resig - DOM DocumentFragments
This means that if you take a bunch of DOM nodes and append them to a fragment then you can simply append the fragment to the document, instead (and achieve the same result - as if you had appended each node individually).
40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART
Noupe is a design weblog created to inspire creativity by sharing innovative resources and websites to bloggers, freelancers and web designers.
TechCrunch Tablet - OpenFail
Oh TechCrunch peoples - you so crazy. Community-sourced software has yet to give us a compelling and simple interface - don’t think there’s a chance in hell that community-sourced hardware+software will ever be simple, certainly not on the scale of anything Apple does. Democracy will always lose out to the crushing hand of intense investment+real vision+amazingly talented ID/software folks. Just the way it is, without the real pressure of investors and markets and customers these projects are never more than exercises, student projects at best. And the union of interface and hardware by committee yields bloat and baggage - hell they’ve already put so many requirements in the mix it’s becoming hard to see what it will be (must have a mic, must have video, etc.), especially paired with near-arbitrary software+hardware constraints.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for July 19
P22 Type Foundry Underground Full Set
P22 has undertaken a major expansion to the London Underground font system. The historical original design by Edward Johnston which is licensed exclusively to P22 from the London Transport Museum is now expanded into 4 additional weights plus a lower case for the bold. The original P22 Johnston Underground were issued in Regular as a full Western European Character set
and Bold All Caps as designed by Johnston in 1916.
and Bold All Caps as designed by Johnston in 1916.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for July 16
The Web Credibility Project: Guidelines - Stanford University
The Stanford Web Credibility Project: Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab our goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. We hope this knowledge will enhance Web site design and promote future research on Web credibility. This page lists some guidelines for Web Credibility.
jQuery for Designers - Tutorials and screencasts
I’ve got a new project using prototype for this effect (including linking) but may switch over to a unified js approach, jquery seems to be the best bet for that.
National Public Radio to Launch NPR API
ProgrammableWeb.com keeps you up to date with web mashups and APIs: what’s new, interesting, useful and important. Hundreds of mashups and APIs. Contribute, search, view, and chart them.
New Site’s Up - Sorta
I’ve taken the MobileMe approach and pushed the new site design up before it was 100% tested and proofed. I’ll be doing more in depth browser testing as time allows. Lots more to do, I was just eager to get it up and out.