I’ve been watching/listening to October 07′s FOWA presentations and the latest one I’ve heard – by Yahoo’s Steve Souders – struck me as worth a quick look. Who wouldn’t want to speed up their websites? Steve describes 14 rules that make up a ‘best practices for speeding up your website’: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html And there’s also a [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Epic Failure
Posted: 12th May 2008 by Jon in LolTags: Brilliant, Epic, FAIL, Failure, favouritest, Gather, website, world
My new favouritest website ever. http://failblog.org/ “This is a site for sharing all things that FAIL with the world.” Brilliant!
DS_Store, dot underscore (._), resource forks and annoyed Windows users
Posted: 7th May 2008 by Jon in Hints and TipsTags: apple, background image, colleagues, custom attributes, folders, hassle, little buggers, mac system, mac users, macworld, resource fork, resource forks, two bits, underscore, windows environment, windows server, windows xp
If any of you out there, like me, work in a Windows environment but have colleagues or friends who insist on using Macs, you will probably have noticed a whole load of extra hidden files scattered around your network. That a familiar sight to anyone? :( The .DS_Store is similar to the thumbs.db file Windows [...]
Zebra-striping; good, bad or indifferent?
Posted: 7th May 2008 by Sii in Web DesignTags: layout, tables, zebra-striping
Here’s a lovely article I just read that explains how we might as well carry on with the age old convention of ‘zebra-striping’ on tables – that may or may not make it easier for users to find data in our tables, but who like it anyway. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/zebrastripingdoesithelp