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Funeral Held for IE6 Thursday
Finally, a funeral has happened for that wonderful browser we developers all love… IE6. Hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, the memorial service was supposed to have a coffin holding a “body” with an IE6 logo for a head. Great stuff! Now if we could just get the rest of the world to move on.
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General Stuff, Past Top Choices
2010 Brings New Ideas and New Inspiration
So what is it? Two-thousand-ten? Twenty-ten? Personally, I’m a Two-thousand-ten guy myself. Regardless, 2010 looks to bring about new ideas and new inspiration in the world of web design and development. We’ve slowly seen websites go from on the screen reading to interactive pieces of art. Yes, I’m one who thinks websites (some) can be considered art. Sorry we’ve missed you these past few weeks, but the holidays are a time for rest, recuperation and refocusing. Here’s to an amazing 2010!
General Stuff, Past Top Choices
Happy Thanksgiving
To those in the U.S.A. celebrating, Happy Thanksgiving! We’ll be taking the next couple days off around here to spend with family, eat, and watch some football. We’ll be back making the daily choices again next week. Until then, take a look at some of our past top choices and popular ones.
Layout and UI, Learning Web Design, Past Top Choices
Four Key Components of a Great Web Design
There’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. In this article, I’ve broken down the four key components of a great web design with examples and resources.
CodeIgniter
Managing Assets with CodeIgniter
PHP code is far from the only content necessary for most web applications. Most frequently we need to include images, css files, flash files, and many other types of files. The CodeIgniter framework doesn’t contain a built-in methodology for asset management, leaving the developer to their own devices. This article discusses the reason behind the base_url() method and the creation of a helper file that will assist in managing images, css files, and more.
Layout and UI, jQuery
jQuery Horizontal Tabbed Slide Down Menu
Continuing the horizontal menu with a slide dropdown series, this one has a true slide down of the sub menu. Instead of having the sub menu scroll down as in the previous examples, this one actually slides down from the top level item. Tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, Safari (PC) and Google Chrome.
jQuery
5 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins from November 2009
jQuery is great and the amount of free extensions is simply amazing! The number of jQuery plugins that were created monthly is very hard to count and to know; And It is not easy to know which one is the nice one. This choice showcases 5 jQuery plugins that were born in November 2009.