Archive for March 2004
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Flex Your Muscles
March 31st, 2004 |Macromedia has launched its Flex Developer Center. Macromedia Flex is a server component. Flex-based interfaces Interfaces required Macromedia Flash Player for display. It uses an XML language (MXML) and ActionScript, an ECMA scripting language. Flex also includes an MXML class library, Runtime Services, and a compiler for generating SWF files from MXML files. The developer [...]
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The JavaScript Weblog
March 31st, 2004 |If you can’t get enough of JavaScript, this is THE weblog to read. Dori Smith, co-author of JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, is the writer behind it.
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Weighing Images
March 29th, 2004 |Have your images been gaining weight? Maybe it’s time to lo-carb it or, in design terms, use weighted optimization. The article shows how to use regional compression in Photoshop. Photoshop 6+/Imageready 3+, Fireworks, Image Optimizer, JPEG Wizard, and Web Image Guru also support regional compression.
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Grammar Tool for Browsers
March 28th, 2004 |The Passivator is a tool for Mozilla-derived browsers, Safari, and Opera 7.5, with caveats that flags passive verbs and adverbs on Web sites. It’s imperfect, but it is a tool that is appreciated by writers (yes, I did that on purpose).
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Saw Not Sawll
March 27th, 2004 |A friend of mine used to say things like “I sawl it” instead of “saw.” It made me crazy, but she was and is still my best friend. My daughter occasionally slips up and I am there to correct her. Here’s a list of 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and most of the words are [...]
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Single or Double Space?
March 27th, 2004 |Typophile Forums discuss the double-spacing after periods origins and whether or not we should be doing it. I don’t. It is an outdated practice. As important as it is to use short paragraphs in online writing, double-spacing between sentences breaks them up too much and the space sticks out.
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MEGO Copy
March 26th, 2004 |We’ve all read them. MEGO copy. My eyes glaze over. They’re copy with fancy words, a lot of talk, just general yadda yadda. Read Bad Copy: An Example in the Negative to see an example of MEGO and learn how to leggo of MEGO.
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Server Grace under Fire
March 24th, 2004 |mLife ran an ad during the SuperBowl, but the company forgot to do one thing… prepare for the onslaught of traffic to its Web site. Shortly after the ad debutted, the site crashed because it couldn’t handle the traffic jam. When 9/11 happened, I remember having trouble getting to a news site… any news site [...]
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Small Screen Design
March 22nd, 2004 |If your site is designed with CSS / XHTML without tables, you don’t have to do another thing to ensure it’s readable for the small screen including cell phones and handheld devices. Despite this, Webmonkey goes out with a big bang with The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev. The article walks through the world of small [...]
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Keeping Found Things Found
March 21st, 2004 |Keeping Found Things Found is a survey of how people track information they find on the Internet for when they needed it again later. When I find cool sites, I admit I’m reluctant to bookmark them today because I know when I want them… I won’t remember the name or where I placed it in [...]
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