If you’ve noticed the fancy sliding/fading/dragging effects on websites and wanted to try them, it’s easier than ever with a JavaScript framework.
There are numerous JavaScript frameworks out there; some are aimed at those who are comfortable with JavaScript and others have the designer in mind, with easy to use solutions for web effects and Ajax [...]
For those who use the Yahoo YSlow plugin for Firebug, speeding up their websites is obviously an issue worth addressing.
There are several ways to increase the speed of page loads. This includes:
GZip/Deflate files server-side
Add expires headers
Minify JS files
Compress CSS files
CSS sprites for background images
There are several other ways to increase the speed of page [...]
Google are testing new ways to display your search results. There are a whole host of alternative search views to choose from.
To test it out have a look at Google Experimental, (you’ll need a gmail login to use the service).
The new views include Info View, Timeline View and Map View.
Info View
Info View offers is a [...]
With the release of Yahoo’s YSlow plugin for Firefox, web developers are better able to see how fast their web sites are loading, and improve this load time with some nifty server-side adjustments and on-page changes.
In a series of posts I will be discussing some of these elements, starting this week with caching page elements [...]
Scraping is a big problem for many web authors. I came across a great Wordpress plugin that rightly credits you as the author of the post.
It’s a relatively simple idea, but by including a line of text at the bottom of each post in your RSS feed, scrapers will be advertising your website, and rightly [...]
IE7 was a definite improvement over the dreadful IE6, with it’s CSS rendering problems and PNG transparency issues, to name a few.
Early beta’s of the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 have passed the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Acid2 test according to the official IE blog.
The Acid2 test is designed to help browser programmers make browsers that [...]
