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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Alcoholics Anonymous of Midland, Michigan
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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Alcoholics Anonymous of Midland, Michigan originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 00:00:19.
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Tell Us About Your Web Design Blog
Do you write a blog about Web design, CSS, HTML or some other aspect of Web development? I would love to know about it. Submit your blog to my Blogroll by filling out this form.
Tell Us About Your Web Design Blog originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 05:23:34.
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Interesting Web Books - New Books on Web Development
I love to read. I read over 100 books a year, possibly as many as 200 books. And while most of these books are science fiction, dantasy, or general fiction, I also read a lot of Web development books. These are some of the books that have come out recently that I would like to read.
- HTML and JavaScript BASICS by Karl Barksdale and E. Shane Turner (Compare Prices)
- Host Your Web Site On The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy by Jeff Barr (Compare Prices)
- Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML (5th Edition) by Terry Morris (Compare Prices)
- Web 2.0: Making the Web Work for You, Illustrated by Jane Hosie-Bounar and Barbara M. Waxer (Compare Prices)
Interesting Web Books - New Books on Web Development originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 14:08:05.
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Project Managers Can Be Useful, But They Can Also Be Annoying
Last week I posted about some of the many ways that Web designers and Web developers can get on each others nerves. I then received a couple comments saying that that was what Project Managers were for - to make sure that the team members communicate. Well, I'm not arguing that point, but it made me start thinking about project managers - and if there's one thing that will make feuding designers and developers band together, it's in their hatred of Project Managers. :-) I have worked on many projects that wouldn't have been completed without the PM, but I have also been on many projects that were desperately hindered by the PM. And even good PMs have annoying tendencies. You might even argue that that's what makes them a good PM.
Share Your Annoyances
- What Web Designers and Web Developers Hate About Project Managers
- What do you hate about Project Managers?
- What Web Designers Hate About Web Developers
- What Web Developers Hate About Web Designers
Project Managers Can Be Useful, But They Can Also Be Annoying originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 05:42:16.
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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Font-Stack-Tester
When you create a font stack, you are creating a fallback system for your customers. If they don't have the first font, the page will display with the second, and so on. But most designers don't test their pages looking at the alternate fonts, and this can cause problems with some designs. The challenge is that it can be tedious to view and remove all your fonts one at a time to do testing on them. And there aren't a lot of alternatives to doing that. But this script can help. The Font-Stack-Tester scans your CSS and puts an overlay on the page to allow you to remove the fonts manually. It's still in beta stages, and eventually it will be a bookmarklet, but right now it's pretty neat if you want to put the JS scripts into your pages for testing.
- Font Stacks: Font-Stack-Tester
- Font Stacks - How to Choose a Workable CSS Font Stack
- Share Your Font Stacks
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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Font-Stack-Tester originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 05:05:39.
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Link Love: CSS Tricks
This week I found some sites that teach how to do some nifty things with CSS. So the next time someone tells you that CSS creates boring designs, you can point to one of these sites and correct their perception.
- Pure CSS speech bubbles
- 4 Ways to Get Rounded Corners Using CSS
- Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients
- Create a smiley face using only xHTML and CSS
- A Fancy Photo Gallery - view the source to see how it was done
- Text Shadow Box
- CSS Tabs Without JavaScript
- CSS3 Menu Without JavaScript
- Creating an Image Map using CSS only
- Custom radio and checkbox inputs using CSS
Link Love: CSS Tricks originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 14:55:01.
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Are They That Annoying on Purpose?
You're working on getting a new script finished to replace the one that is breaking in IE 8, when the designer comes asking you to move the navigation bar back from where he had you move it yesterday. Or you've finished your user testing and realized that the change you made to the navigation bar design is affecting the content lower down, but when you ask the developer to move it, she says "no" and goes back to fiddling with her code, ignoring you.
Whichever person you identify with more, both situations can be really annoying. But while Web developers can seem negative and Web designers wishy-washy, you still have to work with them. Find out what Web designers hate about developers and Web developers hate about designers, and share your own pet peeves about both.
Share Your Annoyances
- What Web Designers Hate About Web Developers
- What Web Developers Hate About Web Designers
- What do you hate about Web Designers?
- What do you hate about Web Developers?
Are They That Annoying on Purpose? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 18:06:48.
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Poll: Are You More a Designer or a Developer?
Poll: Are You More a Designer or a Developer? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 13:56:19.
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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Ditte Schupp
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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Ditte Schupp originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 00:00:19.
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What uptime means in real terms
When you're looking for a Web host, you'll probably notice the big red numbers splashed all over their screens proclaiming 99% (or higher) uptime. Since most of them offer this level or better of uptime, it hard to use this criteria as a way of choosing your Web host. And while I definitely recommend getting a host that offers at least 99% uptime, you should be aware that 99% uptime equals about 1 business day down every month. The fact is that unless you have super redundancy, which is extremely expensive, you're going to have some website downtime periodically. In a test Watchmouse did from January 20 to February 24, 2010, only two of the NASDAQ 100 sites had 100% uptime: Google and RyanAir. And 73% of the top 100 sites had an uptime less than 99.9%. This doesn't mean that those 73 sites should change hosting providers, (well perhaps Qualcomm and Millicom should). It means that they will be reimbursed for the time that their sites were down.
What uptime means in real terms originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 12:46:10.