A web of web things created, touched, or seen by Chris Casciano of Place Name Here.
A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project Iâve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow cellular connections. Here are a few of the lessons we learned (sometimes painfully) while developing this site.
It's rare that the closure of an academic research group causes controversy. But when UT-Austin shuttered its institute researching Web accessibility, it triggered a firestorm of controversy about its attitude toward making technology available for people with disabilities.
I think I've had this Amazon affiliate setup for years and never did anything with it. Figured I'd set it up as a dumping ground for stuff I mention to people and do a little whoring in the process
I think I've had this Amazon affiliate setup for years and never did anything with it. Figured I'd set it up as a dumping ground for stuff I mention to people and do a little whoring in the process
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September.
The Share Icon is becoming the de facto standard visual representation for sharing content from any source to multiple destinations: over email, to bookmark or memetracker sites, to your friends on social networks, and more every day. The Share Icon is free to use! This package contains pixel based graphics in many sizes and vector graphics in .ai, .svg, and .eps formats.
Welcome to CSS Advisor. Use this site to: * Find solutions to CSS and browser compatibility issues * Share solutions and workarounds you've discovered with the community * Comment on and improve existing solutions
Welcome to the SitePoint CSS Reference! Weâve worked hard to make this the most detailed and up-to-date reference on the subject available.
Generate seamless striped background images!
South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals - March 9-18, 2007 - Austin, Texas
IconShoppe hand-crafts each icon from the finest pixels available. Our royalty-free stock sets are simple, built for the web, and very reasonably priced. Browse around the âShoppe and take some home, wonât you?
custom icon set, twotone, is now 100% free. every icon in the set, every colour, and the PSD to change the colours to whichever custom colour you want. you can use it on your blog, website, application or intranet.
custom icon set, twotone, is now 100% free. every icon in the set, every colour, and the PSD to change the colours to whichever custom colour you want. you can use it on your blog, website, application or intranet.
700 16x16 Open source silk icons at famfamfam.com
List of free [various licenses] icon sets from around the web
Hand-crafted web sites, pixels and text by Dan Cederholm.
Free icons for web designers including free icons for blogs, free icons for CMS applications and RSS and XML replacement icons.
150+ clean and clear icons to use in your nifty web application. They are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, so commercial use is fine. Also feel free to make derivatives with the included Photoshop documents.
background image hack of sleight
javascript fix for transparent PNG in IE /win
Short bits on web development topics
GrayBit Presents: GrayBit v0.5 Beta Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool
Geoff takes the sFIR idea one step further and looks at overlaying Flash over blocks of content - or even a whole page
companion site for Dori's DW8 Book