Episode 121 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of regular host Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) with guests Sarah Hawk (@ilovethehawk) and Matt Haughey (@mathowie). The panel discuss some more in depth areas and challenges facing those managing online communities. Listen in Your Browser […]
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By Aaron Osteraas 13th Jul 2011 General 0 You may have noticed the updated background on DesignFestival, currently, it is Quter Quilt by Kayinangel. As mentioned earlier, we’ll be cycling through some of the backgrounds entered into the competition. Didn’t catch the contest? The Cicada Principle Explained Gallery of Entries […]
Introduce yourself/tell us about you I make computers do wonderful things, swing dance, juggle, meditate, enjoy exercise, rock climb, live vegan, and I teach others how to do the same. I have been working with Rails in Melbourne on a new not-for-profit media site theconversation.edu.au since last year, and am […]
10 Commandments of SEO All too often, internal marketing teams or “the tech guys” at any given company think they know exactly what’s best for a website’s SEO strategy. This developer mindset is based on a view that’s considered programmatically correct. It’s quite often the way things have always been […]
Microsoft added many features to Internet Explorer over the years. Several revolutionized the web forever (XMLHttpRequest, the DOM, XML tools, font embedding, browser add-ons). Some never caught on. Some were truly awful. The team intends to remove several of the less-successful legacy features in IE10 (perhaps they read #7 in […]
It is a well established performance best practice for a web page to minimize the number of HTTP requests it makes for assets like images, javascript files and stylesheets. In fact, its Rule #1 on Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites. In the latest version of Rails, these practices are […]
By Mark Cipolla 13th Jul 2011 General Tutorial 6 The designer’s toolset seems to be always expanding. Long gone are the days when a web designer could rely solely on an HTML editor and Photoshop. Now, especially when working in a team with developers, you need to work smarter and more collaboratively. […]
Whenever you read about Android development, you’ll see the word Activity pop up all the time. In this article, we’ll explain what Activities are, and how they relate to Tasks, Processes and the Back Stack running on the phone. Activities An activity is a visual component that you see on […]
By Jennifer Farley 11th Jul 2011 Logo Design Inspiration 8 Although a bit behind the times (admittedly this whole debacle unfolded back in January), following much controversy and some verbal fisticuffs, US chat show host Jay Leno is returning to his late night show slot which has been vacated by […]