Another glossary I’m afraid, but you can never have too many of them. This one on Smashing Magazine covers everything from typography to marketing, CSS to print design and Twitter to even higher level things such as software development. There are loads of links to all over the intertubes, so if you’ve got a spare moment, head over to this article and get reading!
8 Tips for Maintaining a User Friendly Site in One Hour a Month
I’m sure it’s happened to you. It’s always happening to me. How easy is it to build ‘My awesome website’ which is beautifully SEO’d, completely accessible to everyone and everything only to find that after launch, it quickly turns into ‘My messy website 3.0′. It could be broken links or images, spelling mistakes or pages which somehow magically stop working. The UX Booth has written a brilliant article with suggestions as to what to check for and why it’s important. And hey, an hour a month isn’t that much time, is it.
The H1 debate
Very interesting debate – should you use the h1 tag for logos on your page, or exclusively for the main title of your page? You can vote using twitter, which is very cool. Oh, by the way, I went for #h1logo.
AJAX is easy, but remember accessibility
AJAX is easy. It’s just javascript talking to your server to grab a little bit of content instead of the browser grabbing the whole thing. With this in mind, let’s get to work and build a simple AJAX application that will work with javascript turned off. We’ll do this by assuming that there is no javascript in your user’s browser, then use jQuery to change the DOM to add in the behaviours.
Google, Yahoo and Adobe Flash Crawling Experiment – Flash ‘n’ SEO Indexing
Google claims to now understand and index Flash content. Do we believe it? The clever people over at webdesign beach have set up an entire site to test just that. And the cheeky little devils embedded the text in various ways to catch google out.
Automatically creating ‘short names’ / ‘slugs’ for URIs
Please note!! I have shamelessly stolen this article from my old and (even if I do say so myself) rather boring blog. So please ignore the terrible writing style! I’ll rewrite this article in the future, but until then, I present you with version 1.0 This tutorial follows on from my mod_rewrite semi-tutorial which allowed [...]
mod_rewrite semi tutorial
Please note!! I have shamelessly stolen this article from my old and (even if I do say so myself) rather boring blog. So please ignore the terrible writing style! I’ll rewrite this article in the future, but until then, I present you with version 1.0 There are a lot of tutorials out there regarding apache’s [...]
