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 archive
Development: Responsive Design: Beyond the Blog
Making a simple site like a blog responsive is relatively straightforward. But, how easy is it on a more complex site?
Development: Quick and dirty ecommerce
Not all e-commerce transactions are made from dedicated e-commerce websites. Sometimes you just need a quick and dirty solution to sell from the most basic of websites.
Development: A case study in responsive design
Dan Sheerman has been working away to implement the responsive design for Boagworld. With the job complete he shares a few lessons learnt.
Development: Are Media Queries the answer to the Fold?
The fold is still one of the hottest topics on the web. Clients are concerned users will miss key content and web designers denying the fold exists. Could responsive design hold the answer to this debate?
Development: Build a better web application for your business
I’m fed up with hearing about yet another Silicon Valley Web application, built with fairy dust and funded by magic pixies. It’s time to talk about web applications built by the rest of us.
Development: Making mobile mistakes
I started in the web back in 1994. We made a lot of mistakes. Unfortunately I am beginning to see those mistakes repeated in 2011… in mobile development.
Development: Create a website using Dropbox and a text editor
Whether it is for rapid prototyping or just to easily throw up a few thoughts online, the last tool you would think of is Dropbox. However its now possible using Droppages.
Development: Are you doing A/B testing?
Its easy, its cheap and it could increase the conversion rate on your website significantly. Why then are we not all doing A/B testing?
Development: Archive your tweets
Twitter is becoming an increasingly important business tool and yet what we post which could easily be lost forever.
Development: Confused by the mobile web? Join the club.
Unless you’ve been stuck under a rock for the past year or two, you’ll have noticed that mobile is reasonably big news.
Design: Beautiful design, robust technology
Temporary websites are often the most tricky to build. Their transitory nature and short bursts of high traffic can be extremely demanding on both designer and developer.
Development: CSS Trickster Chris Coyier
Chris Coyer is best know for his work on CSS-Tricks a ever growing web design community. However, as you will discover in this interview it isn’t just limited to CSS.
Development: Dustin Diaz on Javascript and coding at Twitter
Dustin Diaz talks about the shortcomings of jQuery, explains how object orientated coding can help your javascript and discusses testing your code.
Development: Francisco Tolmasky talks about Atlas, Cappuccino and 280 slides
At the last Future of Web Apps Ryan and Stanton had a chat with Francisco Tolmask about the work he’s doing on Atlas, Cappuccino and 280 slides.
Development: Chris Lea on hosting and customer support
Chris Lea works for Media Temple probably the best known hosting company within the web design world. He shares his advice on hosting and their experience of dealing with customer support.
Development: HTML5 and CSS3 with Inayaili de León
More from show 200: Inayaili de León tells us that we can be using HTML5 and CSS3 right now.
Development: Britt Selvitelle from Twitter talks about passion
Britt Selvitte from Twitter talks about enthusiasm, passion and just getting your web application up and running.
Development: Building better forms with Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall from Yahoo! draws on his many years of experience to share with us best practice in form design.
Development: Creating your first web application
Drew Mclellan and Rachel Andrew share their experiences of launching their first app (Perch). They talk about their successes and failures focusing particularly on the business, marketing and customer support challenges.
Development: Great Demo of HTML 5 canvas
There seems to be endless talk about HTML5 at the moment and particularly the new canvas tag. But what exactly can be done with it?
Development: 10 problems your content management system will not solve and how to overcome them
Content management systems are often perceived as a silver bullet that will solve all your content problems. In reality having a CMS is not enough. You must also address broader issues associated with the content of your website.
Development: 5 ways to give your site a speed boost in less than 30 minutes.
In the age of broadband it is to think download speed does not matter. However, nothing could be further from the truth. I share 5 ways to add some zip to your site.