Archive for September, 2011

How to the Choose Colors for Your Website

How to the Choose Colors for Your Website

You may not realize it, but the color scheme that you choose for your website is one of the most important decisions you will have to make. Color is important because it effects not only your mind, but your...

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Amazon Silk

Amazon Silk

Listen to the engineers behind Amazon's new "Silk" web browser talk about how it uses the cloud to take the load off mobile devices. ...

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Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Jonathan Snook has released an "evolving guide to CSS architecture for sites small and large." My favorite is the "Depth of Applicability" section: Each rule set that we add to our style sheet creates an ever increasing connection between...

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Twitter Advertising: How to Get Promoted on Twitter

Twitter Advertising: How to Get Promoted on Twitter

After years with no clear path to monetization, Twitter now offers three different methods for advertising or “promoting” your business: Promoted Accounts , Promoted Trends , and Promoted Tweets . Which service is right for you will vary depending...

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Better Linkable Tabs

Better Linkable Tabs

I find it's a common desire with "tab" design patterns that there is a way to link to specific tabs. As in, you could give someone a URL and that URL would lead them to that page with the...

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In Praise of the Forums

In Praise of the Forums

Jane Wells of Automattic lays out four reasons why someone may not use forums for a question they have. Then she disputes all four of them while sharing an example of where a forum post get a lot more...

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

I'll have a little string of events I'll be giving talks at. September 24, 2011 - BarCamp Tampa October 1, 2011 - BarCamp Milwaukee October 3-5, 2011 - Future of Web Apps (London) October 22, 2011 - BarCamp Philly...

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Radio Buttons with 2-Way Exclusivity

Radio Buttons with 2-Way Exclusivity

Let's say you were tasked with creating a UI in which users can rate three candy bars from their most to least favorite. A grid of radio buttons isn't a terrible way to go about this...

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New Poll: What’s Your Favorite Page Title Separator?

New Poll: What’s Your Favorite Page Title Separator?

Just for silly kicks, let's keep on with the page title polls, this time with perhaps the most trivial of all choices. The poll is embedded on the site in the sidebar. Let everyone know what your favorite page...

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Poll Results: Favorite Page Title Structure

Poll Results: Favorite Page Title Structure

This was an interesting poll because there is no clear consensus on "the best way" for sites to handle page titles. It varies quite a bit even among similar websites...

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