It’s always a good idea to keep all software on your website up-to-date, and for that reason I have just upgraded slightlymore to run Wordpress 2.8 (previously 2.7.0). Having said that, it’s still in the beta stage, so there might well be a multitude of bugs in it.
Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources
Know what dithering is? How about how high an Ex is? When was the last time you used SOAP? Smashing magazine has posted glossary of the terms which designers and developers simply love to use. Confusing at first, but amazingly concise single word descriptions of things are extremely useful, so if you come across a word that you don’t know, check out this list – it might be on there.
10 Essential DOM Methods & Techniques for Practical JavaScript
Now that there are so many great Javascript libraries out there (jQuery, Mootools, Prototype etc etc) it’s easy to forget – or if you’re starting out, even know – that you can do this by getting down to the nitty gritty of accessing the DOM directly. This tutorial goes through some of the more important javascript methods of DOM manipulation such as getElementById, getElementsByTagName, and then goes on to reading and writing from those nodes. Oh, and it tells you what a node is too.
20+ Wicked proof of concepts for better use of jQuery/CSS
Normally I’m not a fan of putting those my five million favourite posts about stuff, but this one really does show off some great techniques. Some of the linked articles are a bit contrived, and personally I can’t think of a use for them (except show-off-ery), but there are some real gems in there, like how to make a blurry background effect using jQuery.
HTML Forms: The Right Way(s)
There are almost too many ‘right’ ways to create forms using HTML and CSS. You could use definition lists, fully semantic fieldsets and labels, paragraphs, the possibilities are almost endless. Just no tables, please! Raleigh web design & development has written a great post detailing a few of the numerous ‘right’ ways of laying out your forms.
Override Inline Styles with CSS
Blue sky thinking, thinking outside the box and other nasty business phrases could easily be used to describe this technique. Usually, we use inline styling to override a rule in the stylesheet, this article on CSS tricks shows how to override inline styles using a stylesheet. Like all the best tricks out there, it’s just too simple. Naturally though, it doesn’t work in IE6.
Audioboo – making ‘podcasting’ accessible to everyone
So I’ve just found the new service AudioBoo, which I think may well turn out to be the next twitter. It allows anyone (well, anyone with an iPhone, at the moment) to record 3 minute clips of audio to be hosted by AudioBoo. You can follow people, tag your Boos – or at least that’s what I think they’re called – set a location for each one and allow people to comment on them.
