Tumblog archive for August
LukeW: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms
link posted 8:33 a.m., Thursday 30 August, 2007. LukeW Interface Designs provides expert interface design services for Web applications, Web sites, and Web-based multimedia.
http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/PSactions.aspMeerbox.nl » jquery-roundcorners-canvas
link posted 1:43 a.m., Wednesday 29 August, 2007. A great little jquery plugin to draw rounded corners using the web browsers 'Canvas' functionality, including a Canvas implementation for IE. Very clean, non-jagged corners.
http://meerbox.nl/?page_id=4Brandon Aaron » Blog Archive » New Plugin: Live Query
link posted 3:50 a.m., Thursday 23 August, 2007. Live Query, previously called Behavior, utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, even after the page has been loaded and the DOM updated. This means you can assign a function to a set of elements ("a" for example) and later, when you add more "a" elements they inherit those functions. Cool.
http://blog.brandonaaron.net/2007/08/19/new-plugin-live-query/flow|state: OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience
link posted 11:20 p.m., Wednesday 22 August, 2007. A great article on some shortcomings of OpenID from the perspective of a new user. Some of these can be resolved by site owners ('consumers' in OpenId-ese), others require a bit of input from the OpenID foundation. Some great observations, generally geared towards making life easier for new users.
http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/08/openid-great-id.htmlMixing OpenID into Django's authentication system
blog post posted 7:30 a.m., Monday 20 August, 2007. OpenID is a de-centralised authentication system that is making a splash in a big way. In this post I give an overview of what OpenID is, and how I'm going about integrating it with Django's user-management / authentication system.
Validating a Username via jQuery with Ajax
blog post posted 7 a.m., Monday 20 August, 2007. The phrase 'simplifying the user experience' (or it's cousins) is thrown around regularly these days, without many examples on HOW to actually make life easier for the end user. In my opinion it's about removing needless junk wherever possible, letting the user focus on what's actually important. A simple example I've extracted from a current project is minimising needless page loads. Read on to find out how I validate availability of a username during the Django registration process.
80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design | Design Showcase
link posted 9:47 p.m., Friday 17 August, 2007. You don't like to scroll? Be prepared. (We warned you.) Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: choice of a unique
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-for-professional-design/CSS Juice » 38 Free Icon Checkpoints
link posted 6:37 a.m., Thursday 16 August, 2007. CSS Juice is a weblog about design of CSS. Topics commonly includes CSS snippets review, web applications resources, web design tutorials, news and showcase of innovative design sites.
http://cssjuice.com/38-free-icon-checkpoints/DjangoSites: We Want YOU!
blog post posted 10:04 a.m., Monday 13 August, 2007. We're at 260 sites listed on DjangoSites. The DjangoPoweredSites page has 3-4 times that number - so if you've got a website built with Django, why not submit it (for free, no less) and show it off to the world?
exljbris :: Free Quality Font Foundry
link posted 5:06 p.m., Friday 10 August, 2007. exljbris is Jos Buivenga's Free Quality Font Foundry. 6 very high quality, beautiful, free to use fonts.
http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.htmlblueprintcss - Google Code
link posted 5:06 p.m., Friday 10 August, 2007. Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper
link posted 5:06 p.m., Friday 10 August, 2007. A fantastic collection of desktop wallpapers, in a huge range of resolutions.
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/index.phpCrystal Clear - Wikimedia Commons
link posted 11:44 p.m., Wednesday 8 August, 2007. Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_ClearLoripscream ♨ It's Generatively Delicious!
link posted 8:54 a.m., Monday 6 August, 2007. A neat little tool for generating random snippets of text - ranging from the traditional 'Lorum Ipsum' to German, Czech, and other various blocks of filler text.
http://loremipscream.com/Web 2.0 free buttons maker! - The program (Photoshop, hosting php-gd2)
link posted 5:19 a.m., Wednesday 1 August, 2007. You can create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted. Enjoy with php, gd2 and Photoshop base button and jquery ajax powered. Hosting/housing windows and linux domain with php/mysql/gd2.
http://www.mycoolbutton.com/Stripe Generator - ajax diagonal stripes background designer
link posted 12:13 a.m., Wednesday 1 August, 2007. Handy tool to generate seamless striped background images
http://www.stripegenerator.com/