Category Web Development
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Building Blocks 18.11.09
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. – Peter Morville
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PDA Blogs 25.08.09
Making iPhone/PDA specific sites for your personal site really isn’t that fun, I’ve done it before – and it’s time consuming and tedious (although there’s something to be said for developing for just one browser). Anyways, I was pretty impressed with this WordPress PDA plugin – which will convert your blog into a PDA ready site (see above). Check it out. -
Search 2.0 10.08.09
I guess you’ve seen the new Twitter homepage? Apart from the fact that it’s been redesigned, what’s the first thing you notice about it?The main feature on the site is a (giant) search bar.
The point of this observation, and this post isn’t to marvel at the new homepage (I’m not all that impressed) – it’s in response to the term “two point oh” (2.0) which people are chucking around far too freely recently. 2.0 represents where we are now, so I thought I’d speculate a little on the future…
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CSS Viewer 23.06.09
I’ve just been shown CSS Viewer (for Firefox) – and it’s blown FireBug clean out of the water! Shows a concise breakdown of any element that you hover in an attractive window - it even converts those pesky em’s! Download it here -
Pete is… 13.06.09
Writing an article about status messages – and how they relate to the future evolution of the web. And I know status messages are an obscure place to start, but just humor me for now, this is going somewhere!
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WordPress Dual Language 03.06.09
Today I’ve been looking at building a WordPress site that supports dual languages (English and German). I couldn’t find anything on Wordpress.org that cut it, so I’ve written a small snippet of code that’ll allow you to display posts in English, then switch to German as and when you need it.
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Dilbert on User Experience 28.05.09
I had to laugh at the accuracy of some of these Dilbert cartoons. Brilliant. -
D-Department.jp Update 27.05.09
In response to my own post yesterday about fluid layouts, I found this tutorial by SohTanaka which demonstrates the same principles as in D-Department, using jQuery. I guess the animation would just be another plugin.
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jQuery Twitter Plugin 22.05.09
Not surprisingly, there’s now a jQuery plugin to display Twitter feeds. Looks useful and easy to impliment. Cheers Sara! -
Be like Facebook 05.05.09
A lot of websites are starting to look a lot like Facebook recently, so if you’re going down that road… you might as well check out this post by Woork, which is a list of the top 12 scripts to enhance Facebook’s UI. Very very nice list too! -
SEO is Bullshit 29.04.09
…too many people spend too much time trying to get Number #1 rank on Google instead of focusing on improving themselves, their sites and their products
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Google Map Clusters 29.04.09
Yesterday, Nick pointed out this google maps extention that allows you to ‘cluster’ groups of multiple pins that exist within a small area. Great solution to ugly Google Maps… will be using this soon!
