I’ve never been a fan of carousels. They’ve become a crutch for designers and clients who want to spice up a homepage presentation with something that moves. ShoulIUseACarousel was shared by a lot of folks I follow, NetMagazine did an interview with the accessibility expert who created the site. JS: Carousels are seemingly an easy …
Why you don’t want to host your own video if you can avoid it. Please, just save yourself a headache, and host your video on YouTube, Vimeo, or some other third party service. They employ some very clever people who’ve solved all the problems with embedding video. From: Embedding HTML5 video is still pretty hard …
This is a cool utility that uses YSlow! and PhantomJS to measure your site’s speed across many pages. Should be good for identifying slow individual pages as well as practices that impact multiple pages. This is how it works: You feed it with a start URL and how deep you want it to crawl. The …
This past weekend, my colleague and friend Sandy Smith participated in Election Hackathon 2012 (read his take of the hackathon). We built our first public Musketeers.me product, Candidata.me. This was my first hackathon, and it was exciting and exhausting to bring something to life in little more than 24 hours. Our idea combined a number of …
Its amazing to still come across web design failures like this one. The image above is a screen cap from the Northlanders, a site about a series of graphic novels about Vikings. The main purpose of this site is to sell the books, either physical or digital copies. The designer, who is undoubtedly from a …
I’ve updated my theme here to make the layout more responsive depending on the device you view it in. For both smart phones and iPads/tables, the layout linearizes. That is a fancy way of saying the right sidebar should scoot below the main content area, and everything will become 100% wide to fill the screen. …
One of my newest and persistent obsessions is constantly looking for ways to make dcunited.com load faster. It’s a challenge because we want to have a content-rich site, with lots of photos, videos, and interactive elements. There are a lot of techniques you can try, from optimizing images, using subdomains to trick browsers into downloading …
Wondering what's new in CSS3 and HTML5 that is bound to make your life easier, and maybe make you really ditch support for IE6 and maybe IE7? Read this article from Smashing Magazine for an excellent overview. It's hard to keep up with the changes that are becoming available in modern browsers and this article …
There’s a lot of good insight in this blog post from the creator of the Views module for Drupal. I’m a big fan of the module, and when I’ve had to dive into the code behind it, I’ve come away pretty impressed. That’s pretty rare for a Drupal module, IMNSHO. Also, if you don’t understand …
Drupal – Designers vs Developers, can’t we get along? Read More »
Going from a consultant on the outside to a developer on the inside, I can’t agree more that there’s a lot more work to do once you launch a site. Since we relaunched our website at work in March, there have been a number of things we’ve had to change based because of how users …