A very nice overview of Web Design Patterns. The site also details other visual design patterns including some GUI and Mobile UI design patterns.(Via: Photomatt)
Category: Web dev
Website development issues including both semantic, presentational and programming languages
A grand day out
Just got back from a wonderful day out today at the Carson Workshops Workshop on CSS and XHTML with Eric Meyer. The workshop was very interesting and Eric’s presentation crystallised in my mind a number of the different css techniques and methods that I was aware of. I hope to write more on some of the subjects covered today and others that were only eluded too as I learn more myself over the coming months.
SK2 – Referrer Check False Positives
When I first installed SK2 I was getting a large number of false positives from the RBL and Trackback referrer plugins. At the time I tracked it down to weird DNS issues and disabled them as I was at work and didn’t have time to look into it.
Since then I have investigated, discovered and fixed the problem.
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Ajax – A new aproach to web appliations?
A lot of buzz has been generated recently by this essay by Jesse James Garrett about what he calls Ajax:
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
- standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
- dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
- data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
- asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
- and JavaScript binding everything together.
None of this is new technology, but rather the application of existing technology to provide a much better user experience to the user of a web application. Web applications are often see as poor second cousins to desktop applications in terms of user experience because of the continual slow round tripping to the web server to progress to the next step. “Ajax” as used by sites like Google’s gmail removes this poor user experience as the data for the next page is downloaded in the background while the user reads the current page.
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