Thursday, October 14, 2010

OffiSync

OffiSync links Microsoft Office with Google Docs. Presume this means you get offline editing capability for Google docs (which was removed in the latest version of docs), but haven't tested this yet. Looks good though. Free version too.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Animator VS Animation

Link I was sent by Martin. Really nice play on the idea of what would happen if the flash movie you were building suddenly took on a life of its own... while you were still building it.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Visual Studio Scrum Template 1.0

The Visual Studio Scrum Template Definition goes into detail about the different types of work items available in the Scrum template, including Product Backlog Items, Bugs, Tasks, Impediments, Sprints and Test Cases etc. Most of it is fairly obvious, but it's useful to have as a reference all the same.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN

A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources :Speckyboy Design Magazine

A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources :Speckyboy Design Magazine

A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates :Speckyboy Design Magazine

A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping :Speckyboy Design Magazine

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping :Speckyboy Design Magazine

Node.js is the New Black

Node.js is the New Black
... or, more accurately, Node.js is a web server written in JavaScript that has some benefits for applications that need to maintain the equivalent of persistent connections without hogging loads of resources when they have to deal with large numbers of concurrent clients.

jQuery Fundamentals

jQuery Fundamentals
An online book by Rebecca Murphey

Friday, May 21, 2010

Google Font Directory

The Google Font Directory could make life a bit easier (or more varied). Well, I say "life" as if I lived web fonts, which I don't, but you get the idea.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Braemoor: Web Dev Software Freebies

This page lists a collection of web development utilities including a sitemap generator, email address obfuscator, UK postcode, telephone, national insurance number and tax code validators, credit card validator, cookie-handling JavaScript, rogue robot trap and one or two other miscellaneous scripts.

Friday, April 23, 2010

SitePoint Podcast #58: HTML Email with Mat Patterson

SitePoint Podcast #58: HTML Email with Mat Patterson
If you can wade through the "conversation" bits of this page (and I've only just skimmed the first 1/4) then it looks as if it contains a whole bunch of reasons why you shouldn't try to bother rolling your own HTML email distribution system. It's a LOT of hard work and there are plenty of people who've already done that hard work so you don't have to.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Email trust systems

One of our prospects is interested in email marketing applications.
I found some links for further reading on whitelists, trust marks and accreditations.
* Goodmail Systems
* Return Path Certification Program
* Suretymail

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Monday, February 08, 2010

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Accessible form builder - Generate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quickly and easily | Accessify

Accessible form builder - Generate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quickly and easily | Accessify

YUI: CSS Grid Builder

YUI: CSS Grid Builder
Not sure if this is really going to help with the sort of layouts we produce... could just end up giving me a bunch of stuff that I don't understand and can't customise the way I need to... but then I guess there's only one way to find out!

Firebug Lite

Firebug Lite lets you include a js file in your page ... and have most of firebug appear inside just about any browser you like! Yay!

SpriteMe

SpriteMe is a CSS sprite maker bookmarklet

Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optmize and Format your CSS

Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optmize and Format your CSS

A Quick-And-Dirty Way To Update Your Firefox Extensions

A Quick-And-Dirty Way To Update Your Firefox Extensions

Convert PSD to Wordpress with Divine. Convert Photoshop to Wordpress theme

DivineConvert Photoshop PSD to Wordpress with Divine. Convert Photoshop to Wordpress theme
allows you to convert Photoshop PSD files to Wordpress Themes ... allegedly. Few limitations but it's in free beta at the moment. Could be a real time saver if we start to use Wordpress in anger (and if we get to know the work-arounds / quirks of this app :-)

Video for Everybody!

The Video for Everybody! page provides copy-and-pasteable code for including video in web pages that will play in just about any browser and device from HTML5 native support (ogg and mp4) through quicktime and flash to just showing a placeholder image with links to download the video file.

Monday, January 25, 2010

A Markup That Could Have Big Implications for SEO | WebProNews

This article by WebProNews
says that RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is becoming increasingly used to help search engines determine relevance and provide "rich snippets" in search results which are shown to increase click-throughs.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Copy and paste images into web-based WYSIWYG editors

PicturePaste allows you to copy and paste images from the Windows clipboard into web-based rich text editors, such as those used by gmail, google docs, blogger, wordpress etc.

Sitepoint have done a write-up about it.

Might mean that for some people the commercial plug-in for TinyMCE is no longer necessary.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Thomas Landauer: Preventing Spam in Form Submissions without Using a CAPTCHA

Preventing Spam in Form Submissions without Using a CAPTCHA
an article by Thomas Landauer

Magic Zoom examples

Magic Zoom examples

URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes

URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes

Show If

I don't advocate some of the suggested uses, or agree with the solutions implemented by all of the testimonials, but I might need to come back to Show If some day...?

frequency decoder - accessible, unobtrusive slider demo

A rather nice set of accessible, unobtrusive slider controls on Frequency Decoder.

PHP QR Code Generator

PHP QR Code Generator

The rules of email engagement | Blog | Econsultancy

The rules of email engagement | Blog | Econsultancy

Monday, January 11, 2010

Removing the element outline on links without hurting keyboard users

This article by Patrick Lauke suggests
a:hover, a:active { outline: none; }
to remove the annoying outlines left behind "off-lefted" link elements without leaving keyboard-only users without any clue as to which element they currently have selected.

Friday, January 08, 2010