web concepts
Style Guides (for websites)
Its like the never ending story – “Web development team waits for designers to finish page – project delayed”; OK, you caught me – they never delay the project! ;) What I think every company, every brand and especially every website needs is a style guide. I caught this great post at Smashing Magazine called [...]
touching vs hover
Image by Getty Images via @daylife When the iPad came out – it changed the game, A few days after Steve Jobs announced the release of the iPad, I read that sentence in Apple’s Reference Library: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad, and started to realize the drastic implications the evolution of multi-touch would have on [...]
Semantic plugin for WordPress – wp-RDFa
I spent the better part of 2009 working on, learning about and architecting media information systems. There are a lot of cool semantic web tools on the market. Some are quite pricey – some are free. When I saw this plugin, it sparked my interest. It’s called wp-RDFa and has a slug: wp-RDFa brings the semantic [...]
WP Plugin: WP Sentence
If you are the kind of person who likes to have a fresh quote in the sidebar, this is a plugin for you: WP Sentence is a wordpress plugin that allows you to add new widget to Your sidebar. WP Sentence shows one of the 430 citations. When the page refreshes widget show different (random) [...]
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
This is a very in depth post on how mikeindustires.com was able to grab a domain at expiration time: I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance [...]
Flavors of Free
There is so much buzz about free and paywalls and hybrid of the two. There is a nice article on Logic+Emotion called “The 4 Kinds of Free“: This is a new kind of currency that we’re seeing being used and what fuels it is the accessibility we have to each others through more of an [...]
PayPal woes?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Woah – this may be the first PayPal horror story I have heard of. But I have not looked to hard. Eitherway – this is a great post from four bean soup. The 24 hours came and went, so I called customer service back. They reviewed the documents on [...]
Classified by any other name
Along with keeping the day-to-day rolling in webdev this week, my task is to test out a couple of web classified apps. We’re looking to test drive two methods – one called geodesic and then drop a couple of WordPress themes too. The hard part will be figuring out how much is “enough” to get [...]
Learning from IKEA
Image via Wikipedia Danny Brown had a great post about IKEA and the design of their stores. It reminded me of the struggles my work is going through right now trying to be come better eCommerce people. Here are a few things from the article – see the full post here: Learning from IKEA Great [...]
How fast is your site?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife How fast is your site? This is a very timely article, as today our network guy gave a me a call to warn me our website’s error log was out-of-control. The caching plugin we were using was haywire. I had to turn off the page level caching to slow [...]
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