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Get More From Your Website By Being a Proactive Client, Attentive Developer
Monday, July 26th, 2010A website, once built and launched, is a forever-moving target that requires patience and a good deal of regular maintenance in order to become and remain successful. The only thing that’s certain when you deploy a site is that someone, somewhere, will have trouble with it and will call you to resolve the issue. It requires patience and collaboration to get to the source of the problem. Here are 2 ways that exchange can go down: The wrong way and the right way.
(Read more...)HTML 5 Demos
Saturday, June 5th, 2010Apple recently released a demo site that shows off some of the cooler aspects of HTML 5. While it will likely be a long time before the dinosaur that is the Internet Explorer “franchise” is willing to build in full HTML 5 support– thereby ensuring we developers don’t get to build many HTML 5 sites [...]
(Read more...)HTML 5 for Drunks
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Found this hilarious article about HTML 5. Inside all the wisecracks there’s some useful info: www.happymagicfuntime.com/blog/entry/html5_for_drunks
(Read more...)Smashing Mag: Modern CSS Layouts
Friday, May 7th, 2010A super useful article about CSS that heavily touts the new features available in CSS3. What I think is interesting to note is the time savings that comes when developers are able to use the latest technologies rather than having to find workarounds to accommodate old browsers while still achieving the visual appeal our clients [...]
(Read more...)Podcast About the New Lithium PHP Framework
Monday, February 22nd, 2010In today’s nerd news, check out an interview with Nate Abele, former CakePHP team lead and now team lead for the new Lithium PHP framework, of which our own Jon Adams is a part of. Nate talks about managing opensource projects, how Lithium was spun off from CakePHP, and talks about the roles of the [...]
(Read more...)Google Drops Support for Internet Explorer 6
Saturday, January 30th, 2010You can almost hear web developers everywhere cheering at this one:Â Google has dropped support for Internet Explorer 6, which should signal the final death throes of the much-maligned web browser that forces web professionals worldwide to dumb down the designs and web tools we create. Here’s the full story.
(Read more...)Another Reason Not to Use IE6
Friday, January 15th, 2010How did the hackers do it? They exploited yet another vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.
(Read more...)Useful Ways to Use Twitter for Businesses
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010I found this article today that has a few useful tips about how a business can leverage Twitter to its fullest:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-innovative-ways-to-use-twitter-for-business/
(Read more...)Tips for Assessing a Web Firm and Getting the Most From Them Later
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Recently, a friend contacted me to ask some advice about assessing web firms. He was in China sourcing product for his new startup company, and was looking to work with Chinese web developers for his startup’s eCommerce website. He had seen a range of bids come in at a wide variety of price points, and wasn’t sure what to look for. He had a lot of questions for me. Here is my response to him.
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