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- Stock photos that don’t suck — Medium
- SVGMagic – Great jQuery SVG fallback plugin
I had found a Grunt extension that did this, but didn’t know it could be done on the clien side.
- Feature-zilla! Will Featureful Kill Usable on the Web?
- Google releases tool to let devs bring Chrome apps to iOS & Android
Another tool to make cross platform “native” apps.
- As CNN mobile traffic hits 40%, editor calls web vs. apps debate ‘red herring’ | Poynter.
- Dot Navigation Styles
- Google Map Builder by MyNameIsDonald – Build a Google Map for your website in just a few clicks.
- Beyond Bootstrap and Foundation: Frameworks You’ve Never Heard Of
- OptionTree WordPress Plugin
I had an old site that I needed to add a Theme Option to quickly. Ideally you want to use the Theme Customizer, but this isn’t bad for a quick and dirty solution..
- 10 HTML Tags You May Not Be Using
- What is an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
- 2014: The year we all go 4K
Mo pixels, mo problems.
- Fast Enough – TimKadlec.com
100ms is how long you have for the user to feel like the task was instantaneous. 1.0 second is how long you have for the user’s state of flow to remain uninterrupted (though the delay will still be noticeable). 10 seconds is how long you have before the user loses interest entirely and will want to multitask while the task is completing.
- BeyondCompare for OSX
The new beta is now supporting Mac!
- Rethink the Airline Boarding Pass | PeterSmart
Very smart.
- How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing | Ars Technica
Not exactly web related, but most of us coming from the print world can appreciate this.
- Intel Interview – “Mobile First” – Luke Wroblewski wrote the Book | Showyou
- Off Topic: Target point-of-sale terminals were infected with malware | PCWorld
It sounds like the admin logins to the Target POS may not have been using two-factor authentication, which would have made a brute-force attack easier (even if only accessible over VPN). My first question was, “Why is Target holding credit card numbers?” But it sounds like the malware was scraping RAM on the machines, so the info wouldn’t need to be saved in order to be compromised. Many lessons will be learned from this, and Target is the one that will take almost all of the financial hit (Est. $50 million by Gartner financial fraud analyst Avivah Litan) for this. Consumers will more-than-likely not be affected financially at all.
- Ugh. Checking out files with Perforce | Tvenge Design
After using Git, I’ve found that I really don’t enjoy Perforce. This is one of my worst annoyances with it (and a pseudo-fix).
- Chrome number of hosts limit
paul_irish: Chrome re-confirmed that the 6 connections-per-host limit is the right magic number.
- Facebook buys Branch
Nother Acqui-hire.
- Ten reasons we switched from an icon font to SVG – Ian Feather
Let’s face it, the easiest way for vector icons is Font Awesome. Maybe we should start using SVG’s.
- Discover the world’s best mobile UX
- CSS Blend Modes could be the next big thing in Web Design — Web Design Technique — Medium
- HTTP Archive – Interesting Stats
Average image weight per webpage is now over 1MB.
- UX is not UI | Experience Design at Hello Erik
Don’t get the two mixed up. They are very different.
- Spacegray — A Hyperminimal UI Theme for Sublime Text
My new favorite ST theme. And it’s “flat” design! Everyone loves “flat” cuz it’s not skeuomorphic! Flat! FLAT!!!!!
- Front End Ops – Ian Feather
No more throwing code over the wall.
- Typecsset
I love what Harry Roberts is doing with vertical rhythm. It’s pretty painless once you put the time in on your initial css reset.
- Colors
Those generic CSS colors are pretty ugly. These are ones that look a little nicer.
- Bulls**t Overlays | Brad Frost Web
Are overlays the new carousels?
- The 20 biggest logo redesigns of 2013 | Logo design | Creative Bloq
Minneapolis design shop Duffy did the MOA rebrand.
- Setting Up a New Mac on OSX for Web Development
- Endangered species of the Web: the Link
LInks are what made the web great. Let’s not forget about them and use them properly.
- 50 Problems In 50 Days: The Power Of Not Knowing
- SVG Drawing Animation | Demo 1
- SVG Files: From Illustrator to the Web – Design & Illustration – Tuts Tutorials
- 4 UX mistakes that are killing your conversions
- Web Performance Waterfalls from 10,000 Feet
- Best WordPress snippets, hacks and tips from 2013
- Data Monday: Mobile Holiday Shopping 2013
- What is the DOM?
- Happy 17th Birthday CSS | Web Directions
- How to Communicate Hidden Gestures | Intel® Developer Zone
- Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker
All you need to know about 3.8.
- Mobile stress: Slower web pages lead to increased user frustration and lower engagement
- Our checklist for improving mobile websites
- Why Bother With Accessibility? on 24ways
Lots of great random articles in Web Design.
- Why Bother with Accessibility? ◆ 24 ways
Accessibility can be easily overlooked. Laura talks about why you should be focusing on it.
- Flat UI and Forms · An A List Apart Article
- How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader | Wired Design | Wired.com
Interesting to see the design challenges they faced in this redesign. I like how they added friction to the swipe not because they reader needed it, but because it felt better for the user. UX FTW! 🙂
- Can we kill off lorem ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum goes against the content first approach. Can we change this yet?
- Learn what most schools don’t teach – Code
- Dash
Just starting with html/css/js? Try this one out.
- Kill It With Fire! What To Do With Those Dreaded FAQs
- Data Monday: Mobile Holiday Shopping 2013
- A Blue Box
The good and bad of css: You can do one thing a million different ways.
- IE11 “Emulation” and Conditional Comments
Some tips for testing IE.
- Introducing DesignFaves.com
- Hosts review: Simple System Preferences pane makes network tweaks easy
If you are constantly editing your hosts file, here’s a GUI for it.
- Barley for WordPress is a simple and effective inline editor
This looks like a great wysiwyg alternative for WordPress.
- Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client May Block CORS AJAX OPTIONS Requests
A PSA for those who use Cisco AnyConnect VPN.
- Six reasons to ditch your m.site in 2014
- The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards | UX Magazine
- WP Security Expert, Plugin Developer Chris Wiegman Joins iThemes | iThemes
Pretty cool to see an Oklahoma City company expanding.
- Git for Grown-ups ◆ 24 ways
- November, 2013 Desktop Market Share: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari – Up; Firefox, Opera – Down
- How to Improve Your Conversion Rates with a Faster Website | Zoompf Web Performance
- DOA? Diagnosing the UX Flaws of Obamacare | UX Magazine
After all of the talk about HealthCare.gov, I wanted to see why it didn’t do so well.
- Take UX to the next level by adding ‘delight’
- 40 Nifty Shortcuts to Make Your Life Easier
Little off topic, but if you use a mac, these are so,e great shortcuts.
- Foreword for Sass for Web Designers
- Building the Pencil product page
Love seeing people’s design process.
- Inuit.css Kitchen Sink
If you don’t feel like digging through inuit.css’s code, here’s a visualization.
- Reducing Boilerplate Code in Front-End Projects – TNG – The Nitty Gritty
Tools like Grunt and Bower are the future of boilerplates.
- Announcement: IE8 Compliance is Now Optional | Envato Notes
It’s starting. IE8 support dropping. I’m not 100% on board yet, but the site stats are dropping steadily.
- Introducing Scut, a new Sass utility library
This seems like a great idea. At the very least, you could take this methodology and put it towards your own boilerplate.
- Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board
This is an interesting move. From what I know, Zeldman’s shop HappyCog historically has used Expression Engine as a CMS, so I’m not sure if this will change that. Probably not.
- WordPress 3.8 Beta 1
Wordpress 3.8 is now in beta. It features a new responsive admin area and theme picker. This is worth it alone.
- WordPress Admin Theme Redesign on Behance
New take on the WordPress Admin area. Not sure if they knew about MP6. 🙂
- Mobile Usability Problems
- “TechCrunch: A Responsive Redesign,” an article by Dan Mall
I wish we’d see a little more “inside baseball” on these larger profile projects.
- Async Ads with HTML Imports
Now I think I can get on board with these html imports. Ads are a great use-case.
- Email Domain Datalist Helper | CSS-Tricks
Great idea!
- Terminal in Chrome Devtools — Dmitry Filimonov
sick!
- Why Sass? · An A List Apart Article
If you weren’t already sold on SASS (actually SCSS), you should read this one. If you are already sold, it will help solidify your decision.
- Favicon checker
cool tool to check your favicons.
- WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines – MozillaWiki
Mozilla vows for no more vendor prefixes. IE never really did them much, Blink doesn’t anymore and now Mozilla. When do you think WebKit will fall? This will make things easier for implementing experimental CSS properties. We won’t need things like Compass (css3 mixins), Bourbon, or Prefixr.
- WordPress › Google Pagespeed Insights for WordPress « WordPress Plugins
keep an eye on your pagespeed with this WordPress Plugin.
- Pre-installed Chrome on Android
Two default browsers? This seems like a support nightmare because these 2 browsers run different versions of WebKit/Blink.
- Internet Explorer 11 Launches On Windows 7 | TechCrunch
Great news for web devs. In this version, flexbox is unprefixed AND the correct syntax.
- Pattern Library | MailChimp
This is approach is the future of web design IMO. Good on MailChimp for putting this out there for others to see.
- Things to consider when inheriting a WordPress site
- October, 2013 Mobile Market Share: Safari, Android Browser, Google Chrome – Up; Opera Mini – Down
- Should I Use A Carousel?
Kinda funny, but also some good stats.
- demosthenes.info – Which CSS Measurements To Use When
- Easily create stunning animated charts with Chart.js
- Perpetuating terrible JavaScript practices
- Selling Responsive Website Design
- Facebook’s phone-first strategy is paying off — to the tune of $2 billion | TechHive
Mobile First seemed to work for Facebook.
- 14 brands that increased conversion rates via responsive design | Econsultancy
For anyone that tells you responsive web design isn’t worth it…
- State of mobile 2013 (infographic) | Super Monitoring Blog
- WordPress is One of the Best Decisions You Can Make
They do look at the pros and cons, and why the pros outway the cons.
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