No Comments// Posted in Javascript by James on 05.24.11.
A word about how these two concepts differ in JavaScript. In case you don’t know what I mean, take these two example bits of code below. First we have a function declaration: function myFunction() { return “result”; } And here we have a function expression: var myFunction = function() { return “result”; } Both of [...]
No Comments// Posted in SEO, UI, URLs by James on 11.16.10.
Clean URLs are an important consideration of website design. The URL is a fundamental part of the internet – they repersent a page uniquely and permanently. They should be human-readable, consitant, and contain any important keywords.
No Comments// Posted in CSS, SEO, UI by James on 11.02.10.
Keir Whitaker over at Think Vitamin posted a link to how the BBC use CSS. Its geekily interesting to see how such a large site like the BBX implements and uses CSS. The best part of the page is the little orange ‘Why’ buttons to the right of there best practice descriptions. It’s a good [...]
No Comments// Posted in Design, UI, Users by James on 10.29.10.
No matter how freakin’ awesome you think your website is, the experience of using the the website doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to your end users.
No Comments// Posted in Design, Javascript, jQuery, UI by James on 10.28.10.
Have you ever wondered how sites implement the function to increase and descrease the pages’ font size at the click of a button? No? That’s ok – I’m sure it’s not an often asked question. But it’s one I thought about the other day and decided to figure out how it’s done.
No Comments// Posted in Branding, Marketing, Social Media by James on 09.06.10.
To me, this seams like an obvious myth. Social media works best for a very certain type of product or service and not so well for others.
No Comments// Posted in Mobile, Testing by James on 08.25.10.
With the iPhone being such a huge player in the mobile web browser market, testing accuratly is a must. This can be a bit of an issue for me as I don’t have an iPhone. Luckily the smart chaps over at Blackbaud Labs have crafted an epic iPhone / iPad emulator.
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