Archive for the ‘ Web ’ Category
I’ve been trying to find a tool like Microsoft Live Writer that allows you to write blog entries without the web interface. I’ve finally found one – Ecto. While not a slick as Live Writer, it’s a good alternative when I’m on my Mac. You can find it at http://illumineX.com/mac/ecto/ [ READ MORE ]
I was trying to figure out an easy way of changing the onclick value of a click-able element in a project I’m working on and found this solution — so incredibly simple, and it works in Safari, FF and IE… document.getElementById(‘clickable-element-id’).onclick = function() {functionname(parameterlist);}; [ READ MORE ]
Looking to find a visual way to traverse the JQuery documentation? Visit http://visualjquery.com/ for you visual thinkers… [ READ MORE ]
Smashing Magazine has a top 10 for design patterns that should be normal practice for commerce sites. These include Lazy Registration, Progressive Disclosure, Forgiving Format and more. If you’re a UI designer and don’t know what these are, take a look at the article. In a practical sense, these types of patterns allow visitors to your [ READ MORE ]
It’s been a while since I’ve used the Flock browser. If you’re not already aware, it’s a “Web 2.0″ friendly browser that centralizes your online life into a single tool. It identifies various types of feeds, as well as integrates into some of the more common online applications like popular e-mail sites, as well as [ READ MORE ]
This is the headline on MSNBC… I think someone didn’t read the memo that was sent out… 10 years ago… http://www.newsweek.com/id/166821 [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been noticing more and more that people who try to set-up a business on the web tend to fall into 3 categories: Savvy — they understand the potential that the web has to offer Indifferent — it’s just a means to an end Institutional — the web is a big scary thing and that only [ READ MORE ]
This is more of a mental note for me that this page exists. I find it cool that Yahoo publishes this stuff… http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html [ READ MORE ]
I installed Google Chrome on both my work PC and my home PC to play around. It’s extremely high the the geek factor because it’s a multi-threaded app with “tab protection”, meaning each tab runs as a separate process on the PC, so if one tab were to crash, or to get bogged down because [ READ MORE ]
I’m experimenting with using Windows Live Writer to publish to my blog from my Vista notebook (yes, I have a PC). This is my first post. Interestingly enough, despite coming from Microsoft, it works with a variety of blogging services and installations. In this case, I’m wrote this to publish to my personal installation of Wordpress. [ READ MORE ]
