How To Pick a Great Designer
Sacha Greif has a very thorough and informative guide on how to pick a great designer. She touches on visuals, structure, insight, style,communication, education and experience, passion, personality, and evaluation (Continue Reading) Recommended Resources:
5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery
Piao Yishi gives us a run down on at least five ways that we can make AJAX calls with the jQuery library. So if you can’t quite wrap your brain around it this tutorial not only covers all 5 techniques it also compares them against each other. Additionally, he shows how to inspect the various [...]
Is HTML5 Ready for Prime Time?
In this interview, OSCON speaker Remy Sharp discusses HTML5′s current usage and how it could influen Continue Reading… Recommended Resources:
CSS3 Techniques You Should Know
Andrew Roberts shares the 411 on which CSS3 techniques you can begin using today. In this article he shows you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the leading browsers (i.e. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera ), and how they will degrade well in the non-supported browsers(Continue Reading) Recommended Resources:
Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices
“By 2014, there will be more phones browsing the Internet than computers. Will you be building for them?” Grab hold of the most exciting and important development in computing since the Internet itself: The Mobile Web. It’s a field brimming with possibility where you can bring your amazing ideas to life. Build Mobile Websites and [...]
3 Free E-Books on jQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to make designers and front-end developers’ lives easier. According to W3Techs , jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library by far, and is in use by 33.1% of all websites. If you’re a designer or front-end developer, it’s definitely something worth knowing. Here are some resources to help you [...]
Waking up with JavaScript
JavaScript is tough to love, but with the right education and tools, it can be really effective. The prototype inheritance model, while arguably quite natural for a dynamic language, is confusing to map into the commonly taught class-based model of inheritance. Continue Reading… Buy Beginners Javascript Now! video tutorials for web nerds killervideostore.com
Web Design Sketchbook
I just dicovered ‘Web Design Sketchbook’, and I got to say it was *just* what I was looking for. The Web Design Sketchbook is a carefully crafted set of website tools to help you through the process of planning and designing your web projects. It starts with a set of design and content planning questions [...]
HTML5 or Not
A very enlightening, but brief article about the pros and cons of coding your web site with HTML 5, a must read for web developers. I haven’t fully made the switch yet, but I do make sure to close all tags to make my HTML easier to parse and manipulate. >> HTML 5 or Not Recommended Resources:
Object Oriented Javascript Part 1 and 2
JavaScript is not a full-blown OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) language, such as Java, but it is an object-based language. So, why should you use objects? Not only do they help you better understand how JavaScript works, but in large scripts, you can create self-contained JavaScript objects, rather than the procedural code you may be using now. [...]