Frameworks

In my previous article, I shared some hard lessons learned in the early days of my web career. One mistake I made was offering to write proposals even when the prospect didn’t ask. But after time, the “prepare a proposal and hope” method of gaining new business began to wear […]

Firefox owes much of its success to add-ons. There are thousands of third-party extensions and 1.5 million are downloaded every day. Firebug is an essential tool for web developers and I use around a dozen other add-ons which make life a little more bearable. Unfortunately, some unscrupulous software vendors have […]

By Tara Hornor 11th Aug 2011 General 3 Adding an interesting texture to the background of websites, posters, postcards, banners, and even to the text itself is a great way to make a design stand out. However, you will want to make sure to choose a pattern that relates to […]

Episode 125 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews a front end expert in Jonathan Snook (@snookca) who works for Yahoo and co-wrote The Art and Science of CSS for SitePoint too. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your […]

I spend much of my life seeing new products and services online. What I’ve noticed many times is the “me too” creation of similar businesses – such as the amount of daily deals sites currently popping up. You may roll your eyes and think that the old saying “First past […]

Loading screens are a necessity of digital life. It’s important to provide a user with feedback when you start a process for which your application has to wait for a response. If a user presses a button it’s important they know that the action they’ve taken has been acted upon. […]

If you’re working with Ruby, chances are by now you’ve heard the word “metaprogramming” thrown around quite a lot. You may have even used metaprogramming, but not fully understood the true power or usefulness of what it can do. By the end of this article, you should have a firm […]

By Simon Pascal Klein 10th Aug 2011 Podcast Inspiration, Tutorial 1 Welcome back everyone! I caught up with SitePoint lead designer Alex Walker and master of the “Cicada Principle” to have a chat about limitations and banalities of CSS3 gradients and where SVG backgrounds could suitably replace them.   Download this […]

When you are up to your elbows in running a business, it can often be easy to overlook some of the strategies or ideas we should be considering every once in a while. With that in mind, here is an alphabet of words to spark those all-important reminders. A is […]