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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 : 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 …
Development : Border-width animations
Rather liked a couple of these border animations, seen on HTML5 Advent. I've never considered animating borders before, but they could add interest if applied subtly on the right project. They only w…
Design : Typography effects with CSS3
More possibly unusable but very nicely made CSS3 effects. This time with typography: I do believe there is a place for many of these effects if used with subtlety and when appropriate. However, I a…
Development : CSS3 MadMen animation
I would love to have seen Andy's presentation as it looks really interesting (and trying to understand a presentation from slides alone is quite a challenge sometimes). However, a lot of this look…
Development : Microsoft makes your job easier
Big news today. Microsoft is to make our lives just that little bit easier by auto-updating Internet Explorer. Twitter is abuzz with excitement over this news because it will mean a sharp decline in …
Development : A little responsive video demo
A lot has been written about responsive web design and a lot of screen grabs taken to show websites rendered at different widths. However, it all makes much more sense when you actually see what happe…
Development : CSS3 toolkit
I have been playing with Alex Morris’ new mac app CSS3 Toolkit. Its a simple little app that allows you to create complex decorative CSS3 styles visually. Currently CSS3 Toolkit supports: Border …
Development : Web page file size has increased by 25% in one year
A 25% growth in one year is pretty frightening especially when we consider the growth of mobile. What is interesting about the report from Pingdom is that Javascript (44% growth) is the main culpri…