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Have you noticed a change in your search results? Google has been making some changes……
Have you noticed a change in your search results? Google has been making some changes… http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html Reshared post from +Danny Sullivan Terrible accident on the M5 motorway in England, which I used to drive on often. I was curious how Google’s new "fresh" algorithm handled this. In the US, not at all — nothing fresh [Continue reading]
Agreed :)
#WebDevelopment #UI Embedded Link 10 ways to screw up a web form and piss me off Today I complained (on Google+) about web forms where you have to re-enter your email address. I always feel insulted when sites ask me that. As if I can’t be trusted to know my own … Google+: View post [Continue reading]
Drawing images with just #CSS
A new age for spam mails? :) Embedded Link How to draw the Windows logo with 100% CSS. No javascript! No images! HTML. <div id="windows"> <div class="canvas"> <div class="icon"> <div class="window1"> <div class="window-e1"></div&g…
Some really nice #CSS tips using the background-size property
Some really nice #CSS tips using the background-size property Embedded Link Take advantage of the CSS background-size property | Tutorial | .net magazine Front-end developer Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis, owner of W3Conversions, takes you through a variety of innovative uses for the new CSS3 background-size property. More control than you’ve ever had befo… Google+: Reshared 1 [Continue reading]
This is embarrassing
From the Marriott Hotels website foo@apogee.gr is subscribed to:You have chosen not to receive Marriott email.Please allow ten business days to process this request. 2 WEEKS to unsubscribe a mail from a mailing list??
An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's iPhone 4S webpage
Reshared post from +Elijah Manor An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple’s iPhone 4S webpage Embedded Link An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple’s iPhone 4S webpage An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple’s iPhone 4S webpage. The "phone stage" (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 "slides" of the animation sequence and has [Continue reading]
The new View Ripples feature is simply Google engineers kicking a** :)
And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-popular-posts-eye-catching.html
New #PHP book from Sitepoint, ordered, looking forward to the weekend to read it…
New #PHP book from Sitepoint, ordered, looking forward to the weekend to read it :) Embedded Link Home – PHP Master: Write Cutting-Edge Code Sharp, sure-fire techniques guaranteed to take your PHP skills to the next level
Lovely #jQuery work!
See the end-result live here http://360langstrasse.sf.tv/ Embedded Link Create an interactive street view with jQuery | Tutorial | .net magazine Severin Klaus explains how Hinderling Volkart created an innovative method of scrolling through video for its 360° Langstrasse website, and how you can use it on your site Google+: Reshared 1 times Google+: View post [Continue reading]
How to quickly evaluate your site's effectiveness from a user experience point…
How to quickly evaluate your site’s effectiveness from a user experience point of view Embedded Link ZURB – Critique a Web Page in 30 Seconds or Less An article written by Bryan Zmijewski titled ’Critique a Web Page in 30 Seconds or Less’. Update: Due to enormous popularity of this post we have created a [Continue reading]
Warning, incoming Groupon-clone flood :)
Warning, incoming Groupon-clone flood :) Reshared post from +Ingo Wetsches Open DealsA Drupal 7 Dristribution for building deals sites. http://www.opendealsapp.com/ Embedded Link Open Deals – A Deals Site Distribution based on Drupal 7 Why use Open Deals. Easy and Quick Start of a full featured Deals site. Based on Drupal 7 and Drupal Commerce; SEO [Continue reading]
Designers: drop Photoshop, do it in HTML!
Any designers who can understand HTML raise your hands :) Embedded Link Prototyping in code | Feature | .net magazine Alex Morris, user experience director at Mark Boulton Design, walks us through some of the rationale, the tricks, the processes and techniques you can employ to build HTML prototyping into your workfl… Google+: Reshared 1 [Continue reading]
A really resourceful post!
A really resourceful post! Reshared post from +Gabriel Vasile BEST GOOGLE PLUS PLUGINS FOR WORDPRESS These are the best wordpress plugins dedicated to google plus that I found so far. I hope I didn’t miss other important ones, but if I did… just leave me a comment on the original post: http://goo.gl/FKz5p. Please share this [Continue reading]
#jquery tip: How to send the user a dynamically-created file via AJAX
Scenario: you are building a web-based report mechanism with options, filters, etc. You display the results via an AJAX call and then you want to have an "Export to Excel" button. What do you do? The good fellows from the filament group have an elegant solution. Embedded Link jQuery Plugin for Requesting Ajax-like File Downloads [Continue reading]
Got to try this out
If it works, it will be huge for both WordPress and Google+ Reshared post from +Daniel Treadwell Google+Blog: Google+ posts and comments for WordPress With the huge amount of interest surrounding my Google+ Blog concept on minimali.se, the number one request was that it be made available as a WordPress plugin. With so many people [Continue reading]
WordPress plugin of the day: Auto Link Best Tags
Here is a nice WordPress plugin that can improve content discovery within your blog. It finds mentions of a post’s tags inside the text of the post and creates links to the respective tag pages. Get it at WordPress › Auto Link Best Tags.
How to read pages with PHP and Diffbot, a visually learning robot
Say you want to copy Facebook’s any-page-on-the-web sharing feature where a title, photo and part of the content is automagically presented to the user. Or you want to build yet another news reading service (after you finished building your geo-location group-chat app ;)). You can now do this with Diffbot.
The HTML validation games continue
And they are not going to end one way or the other. Here is a recent example. Developer/journalist Tristan Louis did a small experiment the other day: Louis then went on to examine the code of many top Web 2.0 companies to see how they compared. All of them are using UTF-8, and all of [Continue reading]
Using the Article API of Diffbot
Having been using the Article API of Diffbot for a project, works almost perfect on every case. Wonderful technology! Reshared post from +Robert Scoble A look at Diffbot, a visually learning robot (As used in AOL’s Editions, look at how the technology works). Many of us use RSS feeds to get updates from our favorite [Continue reading]
Trying out the Livefyre commenting system
Since the re-launch of the site I have been looking for a way to make the process of commenting easier. I ended up with a connection to Facebook, keeping the WordPress commenting system, but using Facebook for authentication. While page views on the site have been slightly over zero, comments have been, well, basically zero [Continue reading]
Google changes Sitelinks, top search result spot gets more important
Google is changing Sitelinks, the links below a search result with access to other pages of the same site. Changes include: – Sitelinks are now full-size links with a URL and one line of snippet text. – Links have increased from a maximum of 8 links to 12, revealing more about the websites you are [Continue reading]
Rain or shine, see the weather in Google Maps
It’s strange but after my recent post on maps I keep finding new advances on the issue. Google today announced a weather layer for Google Maps. Whether you’re organizing a trip overseas or a picnic at a local park, knowing the weather forecast is a crucial part of the planning process. Today, we’re adding a [Continue reading]
Designing UX Exchange
An excellent case study of designing for the Web. Most often web designs start with a let’s-make-something-pretty concept instead of first realizing what is the content, the desired features and which are the user actions we want to “provoke”, and the developing a design to accommodate these elements. UX Exchange is a Q&A site in [Continue reading]
7 SEO Myths You’re Probably Following
SEO. Just the mention of it will flood your Twitter stream with spam replies and start the “gurus” knocking at your inbox door. But really, SEO isn’t as big of a mystery as many would make it out to be. Oh sure, there are some hard and fast rules when it comes to the good [Continue reading]
Online maps evolution heats up
After a period where progress seemed to have stopped, web-based map services are heating up again. Here are some recent developments: Google is expanding it’s travel-related services with a new interface to search for hotels and see their location at the same time: Google’s Hotel Finder (not to be confused with HotelFinder.com) can find the [Continue reading]
Give me a Gantt chart and I'm sold!
Give me a Gantt chart and I’m sold! Embedded Link HTML5 Charts for Mobile Devices | Touch Charts | Sencha Touch | Products | Sencha Sencha Touch Charts enables you to build complex charts with stunning interactivity and incredible ease of use.
FAQ: How Google factors page speed into its search rankings
It’s a well-known fact that site speed is a critical ranking factor for organic search. The big question has been how exactly Google does this. This is probably one of the most-asked questions I receive, and the answers aren’t easy to find. Full article: FAQs: The 12 most-asked questions about how Google factors page speed [Continue reading]
WebDev Overlooked Optimizations: Images
An interesting article on reducing bandwidth use, increase speed and serving you website visitors better Images make up the majority of the Internet, yet we consistently fail to apply the most basic of optimizations. Even big sites like Twitter are completely screwing this up. Furthermore, there are huge unexplored areas when it comes to image [Continue reading]
Trying out Adobe Edge (Adobe Edge brings Flash design to HTML5)
For all the talk of how HTML5 will be the future of the Web, and how, in particular, it will replace Flash for rich interactive and animated content, the reality is that the technology is out of reach for a lot of the designers and animators currently using Flash. While HTML5 developers are working directly [Continue reading]
Fixing UTF encoding in AJAX requests on Internet Explorer
The legendary status of Internet Explorer for being special among all browsers was reminded to me when I discovered that sending a variable with non-latin character in a GET request over AJAX is apparently too troubling for IE. The result is that characters in greek are either transformed to latin ones or just disappear. This [Continue reading]