20 Websites To Help You Learn and Master CSS
This article features 20 excellent websites to help you “grok” CSS. There’s a wide range of websites included.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 29, 2008 at 01:24 PM
A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time
A sense of movement is often the differentiator between Flash-heavy web sites and standards-based sites. Flash interfaces have always seemed more alive—responding to the user's interactions in a dynamic way that standards-based web sites haven't been able to replicate.
Lately that's been changing, of course, with a resurgence in dynamic interface effects, helped along by JavaScript libraries that make it easy—libraries such as Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo, YUI, MochiKit (and I could go on). It's high time to revisit the CSS Sprites technique from four years ago, and see if we can't interject a little bit of movement of our own.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 26, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Comparing PHP to Ruby on Rails
While trying to pick a consulting company to work with, people occasionally ask us about the differences between PHP and Ruby on Rails. Here are my thoughts on the matter. Please feel free to add to this list in the comments.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 25, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service
Lisa McMillan
Aug 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Getting Real
# Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing.
# Getting real is less. Less mass, less software, less features, less paperwork, less of everything that's not essential (and most of what you think is essential actually isn't).
# Getting Real is staying small and being agile.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 20, 2008 at 08:40 AM
10 Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers
Adobe AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment for rich-internet and desktop applications - is just starting to get popular outside of the early-adopter
Lisa McMillan
Aug 19, 2008 at 08:40 PM
Superfish - Suckerfish on 'roids
Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds the following much-sought-after enhancements
Lisa McMillan
Aug 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM
A List Apart: Articles: Flash Embedding Cage Match
The key ingredients of a great Flash embedding method
Lisa McMillan
Aug 10, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Embedding Flash with SWFObject 2.0
Embedding Flash with SWFObject 2.0 - Learn how to use SWFObject to embed Flash content into HTML pages. Flashvars are also covered.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 10, 2008 at 11:54 PM
CSS-Tricks | Video Screencasts
Great list of how-to videos here. jQuery, wordpress, css, etc.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 09, 2008 at 11:32 AM
doctype - Google Code
Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
Lisa McMillan
Aug 08, 2008 at 01:27 PM
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including:
* jQuery
* jQuery UI
* prototype
* script.aculo.us
* MooTools
* dojo
Lisa McMillan
Aug 08, 2008 at 01:19 PM
UMapper
UMapper is the first universal web-based map authoring application.
What can I do with it?
• Create interactive flash maps
• Display maps on your website or social network
• Export data to Flash ActionScript 3.0 or KML
• Explore and interact with our map community
• Fulfill all your map-making dreams
Lisa McMillan
Aug 01, 2008 at 12:12 PM
» 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download :: Positive Space :: The Graphic Design Blog
Well it took me a lot longer than I had originally expected but I was able to track down the original links to more than thirty PDF documents that I have collected over the past couple of years. I have personally archived every one of these files due to the high quality of content. No matter what you call them; ebook, white paper, or resource they all contain information that no designer should go without. (In actuality there are more than 30 files however it was a good round number for the title…)
Lisa McMillan
Aug 01, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Identityworks: Tools - common identity tools
How does corporate identity work? What's it all about? Tools used in diagnosis, planning and management of identity solutions, from independent identity consultant Tony Spaeth
Lisa McMillan
Jul 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM