This is a personal collection of links about Web Development and related technologies that I find interesting for some reason. I hope they'll be of value for you too.
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The way you write has a major impact on what people think of you.
Book by Micah Dubinko from O'Reilly
Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message.
This document especially discusses the language negotiation mechanism developed for such purposes and, as a necessary complement to it, linking to versions in different languages.
CSS can be ideal for use by information architects and interaction designers for rapidly developing prototypes for usability testing, review, and analysis.
Attracting a younger audience to your news site is a challenge -- but if you're successful, the rewards could pay off for generations to come.
As a web site author, there are a few simple things you can do to help the Googlebot understand your web site as fully as possible.
There is no way of making PNG images that match CSS colors in all PNG-supporting browsers. This reduces the usefulness of the otherwise excellent image format. If the image colors and the colors defined in a style sheet need to match, it is safer to use GIF or JPEG. However, in cases where matching image colors with surrounding page colors is not of utmost importance, PNG images are safe to use. This not only means cases where the image is an independent rectangle but also cases where alpha blending is used.
PNG may gain dominance sooner or later, but despite it all, the 16 year old GIF file format is going strong. And while the patent news is good for the Free Web, it doesn’t mean PNG is going anywhere.
The W3C DOM works. What shall we do with it? ...enhance the usability of large forms.
He, I like it when suddenly I realize there are still new and exciting things to learn in the field of Web development.
I have this suspicion that UIE has been bought by Macromedia. Don't get me wrong, I know Flash has strengths and it can indeed be a powerful tool when used intelligently. But I get the impression that this "report" was written by Macromedia's marketing department rather than professional and independent consultants. The samples presented -in my opinion- have many problems of their own.
They present first Volkswagen's Asia Pacific car configurator: The configurator ... lets users choose all specifications on one screen. Well, not exactly. First thing you have to do is choose a country, then a car model, and only now you are presented with the configurator. Try changing the model, and you'll have to reload the thing. Also the UI is terrible. Wait, the authors realize some users could have problems with this novel interface. BTW this same functionality is easily doable in a cross-browser DHTML application.
Next is Moen's kitchen design app. It's true that a similar DHTML app would involve a great deal of download time, only because we still don't have decent PNG support (with alpha transparency) in all browsers. It's interesting to note that Moen's site used DHTML menus for site navigation.
Timbuk2's app. I believe it works just as well in the HTML version, only developers chose to extend it on the screen so you have to scroll, but the functionality is there.