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Development: How to decide which content management system is best
When trying to decide which content management system is best, developers often think about how easy the content management system is to integrate before ever considering how easy it is to use. This needs to change.
Development: Wireframing responsive sites
Wireframing responsive sites can be time consuming as you have to mockup each screen size. Ed Merritt is in the process of solving this problem.
Development: URL structures and analytics
It’s well known that good URL structures can help SEO, but how often do we think about the impact of URL structures on analytics? We should.
Development : Be careful what plugins you install!
Google is saying it has detected harmful code on one of my sites, I dont really know where to start any advice.
Development : Hand code or Frameworks?
Is there the future for hand-coded markups or preprocessor, frameworks, libraries and other tools will totally run the show?
Development : How should we handle responsive images?
What’s the best technique for hiding large images on mobile versions of websites? Conditional loading of images with js?
Development : Vertical Media Queries
Media Queries aren’t just about adapting the width of a site. They can adapt the height too.
Design : How should we deal with retina displays?
Here is the latest question from IQ9A followed by my less than confident answer. Do you recommend increasing image resolutions or creating image sets to compensate for the Apple iPad Retina Display?…
Development : iOS safari resizing issues
Just a quick heads up about a peculiar little problem I encountered today. Like all the ‘cool kids’ I try and make all new sites I develop responsive. That includes the Headscape website,…
Development : Why we often code in .NET
If I say .NET web development, what do you think? Do you feel a sneer creep across your face? After all, the cool kids code in PHP, Ruby on Rails or Python. If you would prefer to code in Cold Fusion…
Development : Putting media queries in their place
Okay this is a bit of a techie, nerdy, question. It was too long to fit into a tweet so I have posted it here instead. I have recently become a fan of object orientated CSS (or at least my limited un…
Development : Why you should care about CSS page performance
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years as both a user and creator of websites, it’s that performance matters.
Development : Even website owners should care about code
Most of the time when a web designer talks to a client about code, the clients eyes glaze over. This is understandable. Code can be pretty intimidating. In fact many web designers legitimately argue …