When I first started out with web design and development, about nine years ago, I went to forums to ask my questions like how to make my own photo-album with JavaScript. I visited these places daily or maybe I should say nightly since we had one computer in my family and during daylight it was pretty much very occupied.
Since our first post on the subject is a bit dated by now, we put together a fresh list of our favourite modal boxes. Enjoy!
What we gonna talk about here is character encoding and how to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. If this doesn’t seem familiar to you you might want to start learning a bit about it. Cause hell is a scary place and you don’t want to end up there. This is how to avoid hell and for those of you who are struggling in the darkness; this is how to get your ass out of there.
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I know this might be the news of yesterday or even last year to a lot of people. But I still like to submit a tiny post for those who, like me a couple of weeks ago, haven’t heard nothing about this great little thing called Dropbox. If you already got it or know everything about it you can stop reading now. And no, I’m not getting payed for writing this.. I wish I was though..
As many of you know, IE6 is an outdated browser that interprets websites in mysterious ways. It more or less forces us developers to add redundant code to our websites so IE6-users won’t lack user-experience. IE6 is also less secure than modern browsers and if you still use it as your main browser we strongly recommend you to update as soon as possible (see list of more suitable browsers below). Unfortunately there are still many people out there who use IE6 which in most cases mean that we need to test our websites in that browser. This is where IETester come in handy.
“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”
The use of dummy text and especially lorem ipsum-text is widely spread. Never heard of lorem ipsum before? Well here’s a explanation of the whole thing stolen from Wikipedia.
In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is common placeholder text used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout. Substituting dummy text for meaningful content is called “greeking”, as in, “to greek the text”.
“Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there’s no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you’re done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.”
A web-based application for making presentations, beautiful user interface with a lot of functionality. It’s powered by javascript.
At their best, desktop wallpapers bring animation to often lifeless computer screens, reflecting the personality of the user and acting as a calling card for creative talent. The desktopography project arrived in 2005 as a place to download nature / topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers. Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.
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You can take Adobe’s Photoshop Express (beta) for a test drive at https://www.photoshop.com/express . We at Swedish fika like it a lot and believe we will see more of theese Rich Internet Applications in the near future.
We all know the javascript functionality that is Lightbox 2.0. It’s simple, easy and really overused by the community. So here are a couple of examples for you guys to use.
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CSS Mastery by Andy Budd.
Probably one of the best books out there about CSS!
Bulletproof Web Design by Dan
Cederholm. A book every designer should have.
Pro CSS Techniques by Ian Lloyd, Jeff Croft and Dan Rubin.
Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. How to
design with web standards.