Rounded corners are often lauded in the design world, UX / UI people claim rounded edges are easier on the eyes and makes information easier to process by our brains. A few years back it used to be a pain to achieve this effect though. With a developer having to…
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Text Drop Shadows With CSS3
A few years back i worked at a digital agency where one of the guys on the team loved to look at pages and exclaim “its almost there it just needs a drop shadow and we are done”. For years now if you wanted to make some text look “a…
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Client Side Image Place Holders Made Easy
For years designers and developers have used “Lorem ipsum” as a standard placeholder text when creating page layouts. When incorporating images into the body design though the standard approach is a little less straight forward. With images having to be made or resized first to the required dimensions and then…
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Display & Visibility CSS Differences
Today I ran into some issues with hidden elements and the visibility CSS attribute on a project I was working on. The elements were not visible but they were still taking up space in the layout. Which started me wondering what exactly is the difference between the display and visibility…
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Installing Internet Explorer On Ubuntu Natty
For years Internet Explorer 6 was the bane of every web developers life but as with all great tales it seems the characters change but the story always remains the same. While IE6 is generally not expected to be catered for by developers these days its equally twisted offspring IE7…
Read MoreFree Wireframe & Prototype Creation With Pencil
Wireframing is an invaluable technique when starting the development of a new project, both to set functionality expectations with project stake holders and to give the build team a concrete idea of what it is exactly they have to build. There are plenty of web based and commercial packages available…
Read MoreGoogle opens up internal speed tool
The loading time of a webpage is crucial it can mean the difference between a user staying to enjoy your content or heading to a competing site to find the information they are after.
Google up until today has been using an in house tool called “Page Speed”, similiar to the Yahoo Y-Slow plugin to aid developers.
Today Google has released the tool to the developer community for download and use to optimize the loading time of their own sites.
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