Flash is often referred to as if it’s an all or nothing proposition. In fact HTML and Flash play together very nicely, and even without specialized knowledge it is possible to leverage the power of Flash to spice up your HTML sites. sIFR is the Flash ‘widget’ that has gained the widest acceptance by the wider web design community....
Those of us responsible for designing the front-end of websites have traditionally concerned ourselves with producing clean layouts rather than clean markup. Today, improved education about the importance of web standards means that web designers are likely to pay as much attention to what happens “under the hood” as what we see in the browser window. Writing code that...
Opera Small Screen Rendering Mockups, HTML templates, databasing, content management, hosting – there’s a lot to consider when developing a website. In the rush to put a site live on time and under budget, one important aspect of the process is often woefully neglected: testing. Sure, debugging a website isn’t most people’s idea of fun, but early testing and...
Typography is a sadly neglected aspect of the web design process, an oversight traditionally blamed on the technical limitations and unpredictability of the medium. While it is true that the web may not offer designers the same typographic freedom as print, all it takes is careful consideration and a little typographic fine tuning to bring website layouts to life....
Thanks to the wonderful world of “Web 2.0″ we have recently witnessed a proliferation of web applications, offering services from mapping to social bookmarking, photo sharing to user generated video. For a web developer one exciting aspect of this new breed of web apps is the ability to extract data from them by means of an API (Application Programming...
