Attributes of Effective Landing Pages: 10 Landing Page Reviews » Layout, User Experience, Web Design » Design Festival
9 weeks ago by epersonae
which really begs the question: remove navigation on landing pages or not? (AdWords guidelines, IIRC, encourage keeping nav.)
webdev
seo
9 weeks ago by epersonae
Drupanium | Drupal + Services + Titanium Studio
10 weeks ago by epersonae
"Drupanium is a distribution and an app with code and documented examples that will let you start working with Drupal and Titanium Studio right away so you can create your own iOS and Android app"
android
webdev
mobileweb
drupal
10 weeks ago by epersonae
About normalize.css – Nicolas Gallagher
10 weeks ago by epersonae
"provides better cross-browser consistency in the default styling of HTML elements" - might look into using as an alternative to the old standby Meyer Reset.
css
webdev
10 weeks ago by epersonae
WORDOID - Creative Naming Service
11 weeks ago by epersonae
"Wordoids are words that are made-up, but sound right. They follow the rules of phonetics, and if done properly, roll off the tongue. The need to have an online presence has increased the need for unique product and company names and has led to these wordoids. Yet, even with a made-up name, it’s important for the name to convey something about what the product or business actually is."
weird
webdev
writing
11 weeks ago by epersonae
Infovore » A Year of Links
12 weeks ago by epersonae
warning: meta. How to archive Pinboard links into actual print books.
personal
webdev
writing
weird
12 weeks ago by epersonae
WSDOT Communications Toolkit
february 2012 by epersonae
interesting document with lots of stats & info from the big January storm. (I still think they do amazing stuff with Twitter etc.)
socialmedia
webdev
february 2012 by epersonae
HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly
january 2012 by epersonae
look up by name or browse features.
webdev
html5
css
reference
january 2012 by epersonae
How to Become a Web Developer | Metal Toad Media
january 2012 by epersonae
seems like good advice, rings true with what I've seen/experienced.
webdev
academia
january 2012 by epersonae
Goodbye Delicious, hello Pinboard: why we'll pay for internet plumbing | Technology | guardian.co.uk
december 2011 by epersonae
"Guardian Technology is switching its bookmarking system over from the ex-Yahoo Delicious service (now owned by the YouTube founders) to Pinboard, a paid-for service." (of course, I'm saving this on Pinboard.)
webdev
business
december 2011 by epersonae
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
december 2011 by epersonae
"free web services are not like free software"
webdev
business
december 2011 by epersonae
Adactio: Journal—Pattern primer
november 2011 by epersonae
Fascinating. I'd like to play with this.
css
webdev
november 2011 by epersonae
Robot Ipsum | Mechanized filler text for your site or project
november 2011 by epersonae
even more ipsum, this time with a robot theme.
webdev
november 2011 by epersonae
Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash
november 2011 by epersonae
"Facebook promotes captive content on its network ahead of content on the web, prohibits users from bringing open content into their network, warns users not to visit web content, and places obstacles in front of visits to web sites"
webdev
facebook
socialmedia
november 2011 by epersonae
Not The Blog Post I Was Going To Write Today « Unrepentant
november 2011 by epersonae
"At Stanford, where I work, most web developers on campus know that if you use a CAPTCHA on your site I will personally walk over to your office and smack you – quite literally (OK, maybe not, but I’m on record for saying that). Sadly, on the web this doesn’t scale."
accessibility
webdev
november 2011 by epersonae
The Income Disparity of Women in the Creative Class - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
november 2011 by epersonae
"Even when we control for hours worked and education in a regression analysis, creative class men out-earn creative class women by a sizable $23,700, or 49.2 percent."
gender
business
society
finance
webdev
november 2011 by epersonae
Original Hover Effects with CSS3 | Codrops
november 2011 by epersonae
Gorgeous, wondering how it degrades, might have to play around with it some.
css
webdev
november 2011 by epersonae
Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - >*
november 2011 by epersonae
indeed. it's actually sort of annoying that the GReader Android apps are still pretty nice, because that's where I do about 75% of my reading, and it's hard to decide to switch from that.
google
webdev
usability
november 2011 by epersonae
The New Amex Biz Travel Site Thinks I’m An Idiot
october 2011 by epersonae
I've seen several software packages that do this; always annoying.
usability
webdev
october 2011 by epersonae
CSS and ebook design
october 2011 by epersonae
Good stuff: why it's important to know your craft.
ebook
webdev
css
october 2011 by epersonae
The Unsocial Network: Why Google Is Wrong to Kill Off Google Reader - Forbes
october 2011 by epersonae
Why google reader is an "anti-social network" and why that's a good thing. Much like pinboard, actually.
google
webdev
misctech
blogosphere
october 2011 by epersonae
SuperBetter
october 2011 by epersonae
via email from Elizabeth. definitely intriguing.
psychology
health
webdev
october 2011 by epersonae
Rip Rowan - Google+ - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about…
october 2011 by epersonae
Too long & ranty to summarize, but quite interesting!
webdev
google
misctech
october 2011 by epersonae
Sublime Text: The text editor you'll fall in love with
october 2011 by epersonae
via @jaydeflix - not sure about light-on-dark, but always interested in good text editors.
webdev
writing
to-do
october 2011 by epersonae
Tool: URL Builder - Analytics Help
october 2011 by epersonae
how to build those "utm_" query parameter things.
google
analytics
webdev
october 2011 by epersonae
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Searching For Mark Pilgrim
october 2011 by epersonae
Drama! (Or something. Who the hell knows.) FWIW, Dive Into Accessibility was one of my favorite resources when it first came out.
webdev
html5
history
accessibility
october 2011 by epersonae
Shopping for a Web Developer is like Shopping for an Auto Mechanic | Metal Toad Media
october 2011 by epersonae
A useful metaphor, honestly, both for the shopper and the developer.
webdev
philosophizing
business
october 2011 by epersonae
5 questions to ask when deciding whether to use Drupal or WordPress | Poynter.
october 2011 by epersonae
"The question of WordPress versus Drupal isn’t Coke/Pepsi, boxers/briefs, Red Sox/Yankees. It’s about understanding the needs of your organization." YES.
drupal
wordpress
webdev
october 2011 by epersonae
A Farewell to CSS3 Gradients » HTML & CSS, Layout » Design Festival
october 2011 by epersonae
great stuff! including link to free super-easy SVG editor.
css
svg
webdev
october 2011 by epersonae
Three Questions You Shouldn't Ask During User Research
september 2011 by epersonae
better to know what people have done and see what they're doing, then to ask them what they might do, what they want, or why they did something.
usability
webdev
september 2011 by epersonae
a facebook privacy experiment
september 2011 by epersonae
I would guess it's from sites that include FB buttons & whatnot.
facebook
privacy
webdev
september 2011 by epersonae
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
september 2011 by epersonae
sent to instapaper, hopefully will remember to read: looks promising.
css
webdev
philosophizing
september 2011 by epersonae
It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
september 2011 by epersonae
bleak, but I can't argue with the conclusions.
facebook
socialmedia
google
twitter
privacy
webdev
september 2011 by epersonae
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Future friendly, or Forward to Yesterday?
september 2011 by epersonae
in the comments: "if we followed the “why can’t there be a single rendering engine for the web” idea a few years ago, we’d all be coding to IE6/Trident" - I think that's the niggling thought that's been in the back of my head since Joe Hewitt's post.
webdev
html5
css
javascripty
browsers
history
september 2011 by epersonae
Of Web Apps and HTML Apps : Jonathan Stark
september 2011 by epersonae
"To put it concisely: The Web is a place. HTML is a material." Using HTML apps offline and not necc. on the Web, either.
webdev
mobileweb
september 2011 by epersonae
The web is a different problem | Web Directions
september 2011 by epersonae
"But let’s step back a pace. Is there really actually such a problem here? And if so, exactly what is that problem? And, are the proposals, to the extent they do exist, likely to help, or make matters worse?"
browsers
webdev
html5
september 2011 by epersonae
lightgetsin | Data
september 2011 by epersonae
On asking for accomodations/accessibility. Disheartening to say the least.
accessibility
webdev
september 2011 by epersonae
Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences « Paul Irish
september 2011 by epersonae
"One of the best metaphors for scaling the frontend experience comes from Nicholas Zakas I'll let his slides do the talking:"
browsers
webdev
css
javascripty
september 2011 by epersonae
What is the best starter theme for responsive web design in Drupal? | groups.drupal.org
september 2011 by epersonae
A good question; I'm exploring this myself. (Sad that quite a few listed here are D7 only!)
drupal
theming
webdev
mobileweb
september 2011 by epersonae
Big question: what do you think of Adobe Edge?
september 2011 by epersonae
Andy Budd's response made me laugh: "Wake me up when 1998 is over. I didn’t like it much the first time around, so I’m pretty sure it’s going to suck now."
html5
webdev
css
september 2011 by epersonae
Usability in Icons | Stiern
september 2011 by epersonae
Do (inexperienced) people understand the "chain" or "globe" icons for creating links in a CMS? I've had to do this training myself. I'm torn: on the one hand it would be nice to have something more immediately understandable, on the other it's not terribly difficult to train people to recognize. (On the third hand, a lot of people don't get the concept of writing "what you want to be the link" and then highlighting it to create a link right off the bat either.)
usability
webdev
cms-research
drupal
wordpress
september 2011 by epersonae
Google's Ta Da Moments | Technology at Burningbird
september 2011 by epersonae
Putting the pieces together..."embrace and extend" as practiced by Google.
google
webdev
html5
javascripty
september 2011 by epersonae
Speaker Interview: Greg Dunlap (heyrocker) | Do It With Drupal
september 2011 by epersonae
"So I guess the requirements to become an initiative lead are having a big mouth, but lacking the common sense to know when to shut it." Hilarious, and I can totally hear that in his voice.
drupal
personal
webdev
mobileweb
september 2011 by epersonae
stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book
september 2011 by epersonae
Somewhat reminiscent of Zittrain's Future of the Internet book, but from a slightly different direction.
webdev
writing
history
september 2011 by epersonae
A Short Rant About Hosting (Pinboard Blog)
august 2011 by epersonae
"Quick quiz: can your entire sales staff be replaced by a nicely formatted HTML table? If the answer is 'yes', then you are subtracting value and wasting my time." actually made me laugh.
misctech
webdev
august 2011 by epersonae
spin.js
august 2011 by epersonae
makes a spinner (for loading or whatnow) without images or external CSS...and somehow manages to be smaller than an animated GIF.
css
javascripty
webdev
august 2011 by epersonae
Internet Filtration System of the Year | Geek in Heels
august 2011 by epersonae
grammar hilarity (no, really)
webdev
writing
august 2011 by epersonae
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : HTML5: notes for analysts and journalists
august 2011 by epersonae
"Please, dear analyst/ journalist friend, define what you’re talking about before giving precise figures and talking about accelerating adoption."
html5
news
webdev
august 2011 by epersonae
Designing a big news site is about more than beauty » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
july 2011 by epersonae
"no one has figured out a way to present lots and lots of constantly updated information in a way that (a) is beautiful, (b) is effective at story discovery, and (c) privileges editorial control"
webdev
news
design
july 2011 by epersonae
Social vs. Time vs. Buying (by @baekdal) #media
july 2011 by epersonae
also, how many people have tabs stacked in the background while doing other stuff?
socialmedia
webdev
july 2011 by epersonae
That’s enough, Robert Hoekman | Shall Make You Odd
june 2011 by epersonae
"Why should anyone timid or afraid they’ll be publicly humiliated as an impostor speak in a world where Hoekman lurks?" this. I have a lot to say about Dylan's post (obvs) but can't (yet?!) put it together coherently.
psychology
personal
webdev
gender
june 2011 by epersonae
Responsive Web Design (Book review) | 456 Berea Street
june 2011 by epersonae
I really want this book.
webdev
css
june 2011 by epersonae
How Hackers Stole 200,000+ Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL - The Consumerist
june 2011 by epersonae
quote from linked NYT article: “It would have been hard to prepare for this type of vulnerability” - really?! URL spoofing seems like a pretty straightforward thing to check for. (Unless there's an aspect that we're not hearing about.)
security
webdev
june 2011 by epersonae
3 Reasons Why Learning To Code Makes You A Better Designer » UIE Brain Sparks
june 2011 by epersonae
"Understanding what your medium does well and where isn’t as effective makes for more informed design decisions."
design
webdev
june 2011 by epersonae
Planning an iPhone App: Where to Start » General, UX » Design Festival
april 2011 by epersonae
applies to Android or web app, too.
mobileweb
webdev
april 2011 by epersonae
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