This will please many web developers. A recent survey by AptiQuant, a psychometric consulting company based in Canada, has concluded that Internet Explorer users have a lower Intelligence Quotient than users of other browsers. Those with IE6 scored little over 80. Firefox, Chrome and Safari users fared better at 110. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
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Google has announced their new Page Speed Service. In essence, it’s a combination of proxy servers, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and web page optimizers which Google states will produce speed gains of 25-60% for most websites. The service is being offered to a limited set of web developers at no […]
I imagine most people these days use a service to remember their countless credentials that have built up over the course of their internet career. I use LastPass and while looking for the Android browser extension I stumbled on Dolphin HD. I was out and about and needed credentials for […]
By Jason Beaird 28th Jul 2011 Typography Tutorial 8 When you type text into any reasonably modern word processing program, even though your keyboard key shows that ubiquitous ASCII double quote symbol, you see nice “curly” opening and closing punctuation marks when you hit it. These special quotes can’t be found […]
The moment you start writing code that grows beyond a few classes, you start to realise that you need a way to group files and logic. While this is easy to do, it can become quite difficult to ensure that you have class names that are unique and don’t end […]
By Simon Pascal Klein 28th Jul 2011 jQuery, Podcast, User Experience Inspiration 0 Hey guys, sorry for the slight delay this week — I’ve been a bit sick over the last few days but the cast is finally here, and it’s another treat. For this episode I had a chat with Matt […]
Regular readers will probably know that I have a little online eCommerce business “on the side”. It’s a part-time thing; I spend maybe an hour or so on it most days, answering emails and packing and sending orders, etc. I’ve had the same website design since I began online retailing […]
You’ve worked on your elevator pitch, you have a polished website, and a handful of happy clients. You know how to generate new business, but something seems to be holding you back. Here are six very simple ‘small thing’ tips that can often make you leap from average to excellent […]
Web hosting has become the modern day charm. It is believed that hundreds of thousands of websites, blogs and portals are being promoted by the web hosts over the World Wide Web in the present era. Generally, web hosting denotes to the promotion of you site images, products, services and […]