Tag: webdesign

Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra

  • August 20, 2010 at 1:00 pm
  • Sinatra itself has useful help pages, but (so far) this the best tutorial I’ve found. Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra

Web Designer’s Checklist

  • July 18, 2010 at 9:01 am
  • An up-to-date set of comparison tables for browser support of CSS3 selectors and HTML5 properties. It doesn’t include IE9, because they have a whole separate page of tables previewing IE9 support for HTML5 and CSS3. Visit Web Designer’s Checklist

YUI Graded Browser Support

  • June 25, 2010 at 4:00 pm
  • This page has been around for a good while. I’m flagging it up now because I’m trying to build up a sort of toolkit and primer for colleagues managing websites; the rather unsophisticated ‘every user should have exactly the same experience on our website’ is – sadly and surprisingly – still a common attitude. This [...]

HTML5 Readiness

  • May 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm
  • This is a very nice demonstration of what HTML5/CSS3 is capable of, and shows how ready the various browsers are for it. Visit HTML5 Readiness

Scratching my head over Rails

  • May 17, 2010 at 9:20 am
  • I’m trying to teach myself Rails, but I’m not even a programmer. So when I’m stumped, I’m fairly stumped. Currently my app is not saving form data when it should be, and redirecting when it shouldn’t. Update I’ve actually fixed this now. It was the ‘home_path’ route that was causing the problems. Thanks to everyone [...]

Nibbler – take a taste of your website

  • March 29, 2010 at 4:01 pm
  • Nibbler is a free online tool for testing websites. Give it a URL and it will test five associated pages against a range of criteria. It's still in Alpha, and I haven't looked closely to see how it actually works, but it could be very useful as part of a web developer's toolkit. Visit Nibbler [...]

"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%

  • March 8, 2010 at 12:05 pm
  • This is really interesting, because I always assumed that online registration forms were easier to use if their components were separated clearly. This post suggests that in fact a narrative paragraph containing the form fields in-line is more likely to encourage use. Thanks to Martin Black for drawing my attention to this on Twitter. Visit [...]

Web Design Dashboard

  • September 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm
  • A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing. Visit Web Design Dashboard

So this is what I do…

  • August 6, 2009 at 11:26 pm
  • I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that I have any skills of note, and keep meaning to force myself to try and audit them just to check. So here I’ve spelled out what I do in my day job, and some of the challenges I’ve faced. Although I’m still not sure I know any [...]

Easy YouTube caption creator

  • July 13, 2009 at 3:56 pm
  • I haven’t tried it yet, but this could make the creation of web accessible video much easier: it purports to enable you to add transcripts to your YouTube videos. Thanks to Andy Mabbett for alerting me to it. Visit Easy YouTube caption creator

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