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  • Should Designers & Developers be held liable for Internet Explorer Design Bugs?

    Posted on :: Nov 23

    This is a question I'm posing to the wild Development Community becasue it seems more and more prevelant that Designers and Developers alike are being held accountable for Bugs and lack-of-interoperability especially when designing an developing Websites that are Standards-Compliant and are 'Web 2.0' compatible.

    Internet Explorer, and its inefficient JS engine, is off in its own little world and forces web developers, designers, and programmers to make special exceptions when it comes to CSS and JS. Although its improved a little with the advent of its latest 8 version IE is slowly falling behind and yet people continue to use it because it comes with Windows...

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  • A CSS / JQuery Framework you can use...

    Posted on :: Nov 3

    Better quality and coherence coding inside a front-end team
    Preset CSS classes, know where your going with highly reusable classes
    A collection of some of the best jquery scripts
    A solid cross browser compatible stylesheet

    A new project means getting JS plug-ins together, clean a CSS and restart. This framework is intended to be your project starter, and in most case, you can jump in the project right away with a solid css foundation. This is not really a CSS “framework” but more a website starter kit.

    The framework is based on a 960px grid, but is very easy to manipulate to get the grid you want. It is however not intended to be used as a liquid grid.

     

    This is a CSS/Jquery Framework you can use and build upon.

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  • In-context vs back-end authoring

    Posted on :: Aug 18

    Most modern content management systems provide two different ways of editing site content: in-context editing and back-end editing.

    While in-context editing is often seen as ’sexier’, each method has its strengths and weaknesses. This briefing will explore these two editing options, providing advice on when to use them in practice.

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  • Could you switch to Open Source?

    Posted on :: Jun 19

    Whether it’s down to the sagging economy or the slow but inevitable death of XP, I’m hearing from many people who are looking to jump off the Microsoft software bandwagon and pitch up with the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) movement. But could you realistically move your home or business PCs over to open source software and make a 100% switch?

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  • The MVC paradigm

    Posted on :: Jun 8

    The Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a commonly used and powerful architecture for GUIs. How does it work?

    The MVC paradigm is a way of breaking an application, or even just a piece of an application's interface, into three parts: the model, the view, and the controller. MVC was originally developed to map the traditional input, processing, output roles into the GUI realm:

    Input --> Processing --> Output
    Controller --> Model --> View

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  • A Framework Is...

    Posted on :: Jun 8

    From my perspective, a framework does several things:

    • it makes it easier to work with complex technologies
    • it ties together a bunch of discrete objects/components into something more useful
    • it forces the team (or just me) to implement code in a way that promotes consistent coding, fewer bugs, and more flexible applications
    • everyone can easily test and debug the code, even code that they didn't write

    If I look at this list of vague framework requirements, I come up with a set of specific classifications that define a framework:

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  • What’s So Bad About CSS Frameworks?

    Posted on :: Jun 2

    CSS frameworks are by no means breaking news. There have been several to choose from for a good couple of years now, with one of the earliest and most well-known being Yahoo’s Grids CSS.What’s amazing to me is that many are failing to take advantage of these great little time-savers.

    A quick stroll through any forums reveals plenty of people having the same frustrating, discouraging issues with floated layouts and positioning; I’m quite sure these could’ve been avoided if the developer had simply used tried and tested layout methods grabbed from a CSS framework.

    Hey, hold on — put those rotten tomatoes away! I’ll explain, I promise.

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