Greasemonkey: Code Injection is Bliss
Posted on Dec 26, 2007 02:56:34 AM
Don’t you hate it when someone develops an idea that’s been in your head for a while? Ever since I started messing around with web pages many moons ago, I had this “thought” about developing a tool that would allow me to alter the HTML sent to my browser to suit my own needs. But, while I wasted my time chasing girls and drinking beer, the mind readers who created Greasemonkey came up with such a tool.
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Tags: Bliss, Code, Greasemonkey, InjectionWeb Directions South contest coming soon!
Posted on Dec 25, 2007 06:12:49 AM
Last week I mentioned (incorrectly, sorry) that the deadline for early bird registration to Web Directions South was fast approaching. In fact, we all have until July 16th for $200 off conference passes, and a second less-early bird deadline after that. However, don’t get complacent, because the WDS folks are giving away an iPhone to one lucky attendee who buys a pass by July 11th!
Still resisting temptation? Web Directions South pulls some serious conference clout, not only for its Sydney venue but also due to the quality of speakers, sessions, workshop and camaraderie. This year speakers include Jeffrey Veen – Designing our way through data, Lynne D Johnson – New media – new business, Derek Featherstone – Web app accessibility, Jina Bolton – Creating sexy stylesheets, Daniel Burka – Interaction design case studies, Jeff Croft – Elegant web typography and Douglas Crockford – Ajax security amongst quite a few other top-notch speakers, many from Australia’s own geek community. The workshops look compelling, too, covering a wide range of topics from Django webapp development to Website accessibility for webapps & ajax.
Tags: coming, contest, Directions, soon, SouthIntraBranding: Why Your Intranet Needs Its Own Personality
Posted on Dec 22, 2007 07:46:37 AM
The next time you work on an intranet project, whether for private- or public-sector organizations, ask your client or manager about branding. Usually, the answer will be another question, “Why do we need to worry about branding?” After all, this is an internal site, for employees only, or—in the case of extranets—for contractors and partners, as well. If users are on the intranet, why do they need to be reminded about Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: IntraBranding, Intranet, Needs, Personality, yourSite Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web
Posted on Dec 22, 2007 04:09:37 AM
The Audience Is the End... What About the Beginning?
This month's issue of Digital Web drives home two points:
Keep it simple, stupid.It's the audience, stupid.
The point to this tutorial is not to reinforce these messages in the same style that you see in the rest of the issue. Had I wanted to do that, I could have written about UI design, white space, or "ommitting needless words."
Those are easy.
What hasn't Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Headed, Planning, Site, StepchildWeb Page Reconstruction with CSS
Posted on Dec 21, 2007 07:08:13 AM
Page design and markupBeforeAfter
CSS and well-structured documents are a combination that can't be beat. This tutorial looks at how to transform a Web page using traditional Web design methods into a CSS-based site. In fact, the example will be drawn from a Digital Web content page modeled after those pages covering reviews, interviews and tutorials—tutorials that are amazingly like this one.
This isn't the first attempt in Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Page, Reconstruction, withWhat’s happening? A new look at Web pages
Posted on Dec 17, 2007 05:58:51 AM
Web designers have been involved with the Internet for a long time, at least in Internet years. We begin to take the users for granted and expect them to know all the tricks of surfing Web pages.
I work with many 40+ year olds who have just bought their first computer. These people own businesses, make decisions, and have some money to spend. Among other things I teach them how to use the Web. They all want to do this very early Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: happening, look, Pages, WhatThe Unofficial WordPress Quickstart Guide: From Start to Publish
Posted on Dec 16, 2007 12:43:04 PM
WordPress is everywhere on the Internet. Who hasn’t seen a blog, news site or portfolio that isn’t at least partly powered by WordPress. WordPress is a very powerful, easy to install, easy to use blogging program. So what do you do if you want to start your own WordPress powered site, or improve your existing one? You check out this Wordpress Quickstart Guide and get yourself some awesome knowledge of Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: from, Guide, Publish, Quickstart, Start, Unofficial, WordPress280 New Rare Handwriting Fonts
Posted on Dec 13, 2007 11:53:02 AM
Exactly 280 new and rare handwriting fonts that can be used in any project. They really look like handwriting, I’ve tested them, and I’ve created a sample image with some of the handwriting fonts that you can preview if you click here.
Download now
Alternative download (if above doesn’t work)
Tags: Fonts, Handwriting, RareLearn My Illustrator and Photoshop Techniques
Posted on Dec 12, 2007 05:35:08 AM
Want to learn my Illustrator and Photoshop techniques that are commonly used in my design work? Please read the article, Vector Polishing Techniques that I just posted on Web Designer Wall. I have posted 9 Photoshop techniques on how you can add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into the vector art. The 9 techniques included: lens flare effect, dusty effect, rainbow, glowing lights, particles, color dodge, blurred, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Illustrator, Learn, Photoshop, TechniquesExtending The JavaScript Date Object with User Defined Methods
Posted on Dec 4, 2007 09:37:55 PM
Applications, particularly business applications, can often require a lot of date manipulation, but that code could be simplified if JavaScript’s core Date object had some additional methods. In this article, I will show you how to add custom methods to the Date object that are inherited by each date instance.
Of course, all of the methods shown here could be written as global functions, but there are some advantages to Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Date, Defined, Extending, JavaScript, Methods, Object, User, with