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Sunday, December 30. 2007

The Mythical 5%

So here you are, about to be unleashed upon the world. This is a lot like taking someone and teaching them all the parts of English speech and then saying "go out and write stories," but it's probably all any school can do. And a more theoretical background wouldn't help; this is not to say theory is bad because you'll need some eventually but there's a recent movement that preaches "practice before theory" and I, apparently like Neumont, find that knowing how to do something is very helpful when trying to understand the theory behind it -- for me, the theory takes a lot longer to grasp and it's very useful to be able to be functional while my brain is catching up.

High Performance Ajax Apps

9 Timeless 3 Column Layout Techniques

Our Target is find a Layout that have Total Layout Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine. Lets digg deep and see below a list of resources which offer gorgeous and valid 3 Column CSS-based Layouts- usually with full layout structure, such as headers, navigation bars, content containers, sidebars and footers.

Friday, December 28. 2007

Spellify - Text field spell checker

Spellify is a spell checker for text fields that will automatically tell you if you've made a typo in a text field. You can also download it and use it on your website.

Friday, December 21. 2007

HullBreach - Wii Enabled Javascript apps

Wii Opera SDK - Easily add useful functionality to your games and Web applications for the Wii's Internet Channel. Wii Remote detection - Remote Demo, 2 Player Ship Demo, Receive status Wii Remote buttons, pointer coordinates, sensor bar distance, and Z-axis roll. 3D rotations - Cube Demo, Rotate polygons in 3D space then translate them to z-sorted 2D to add that extra dimension to graphics. Drawing effects - Ship Demo, Wall Demo, Floor Demo, Draw lines, circles, rectangles, tiles, texture-mapped walls, and more. Multiuser Communication, Allow multiple players/users to take part in the same of software.

30 Of The Best Ajax Tutorials

Today lets take a look at some tutorials to help you with AJAX. There are many ways to learn AJAX including, books, classes, conferences, workshops and tutorials. Of these the only one that is free and accessible to everyone are web-based tutorials. The following is a list of what I consider the be the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials that I’ve found over the past year. Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great AJAX tutorials and I’ll be glad to post them.

Thursday, December 20. 2007

Chart Maker

A simple way to make a chart using the Google Chart API. It allows you to make line charts, bar graphs, pie charts, venn diagrams, and scatter plots with ease.
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50+ Great jQuery examples

Many of us have been using a good deal of jQuery plugins lately. Below I have provided a list of the 50 favorite plugins many developers use. Some of these you may have already seen, others might be new to you. This is just the first series , the second version will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!

Color and Typography in Good Design

Typography is a significant issue for designers. On many projects, finding just the right font, size, spacing, etc. can require considerable time and attention. In addition to typography, color is also a major factor in the success of the design. What is sometimes overlooked is the combination of color and typography and the effect that it has on the overall project.

Diagnostic Styling

We’re all used to using CSS to make our designs live and breathe, but there’s another way to use CSS: to find out where our markup might be choking on missing accessibility features, targetless links, and just plain missing content.

Note: the techniques discussed here mostly work in Firefox, Safari, and Opera, but not Internet Explorer. I’ll explain why that’s not really a problem near the end of the article — and no, the reason is not “everyone should just ignore IE anyway”.