w3 just published stuff on mobiles…

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the most relevant engineering practices, promoting those that enable a better [...]

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Designing a background for Twitter

So you want to tell the world everything you do? Seems that people are tweeting about all sort of stuff… i am not a massive fan but have had some clients who want there own look and feel. I have put together a multilayer photoshop document so you can see what i belive is best practice [...]

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Need to send large files?

Just found a web service that allows you to send large files up to 2Gb http://www.mailbigfile.com/pro/

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Firefox Add-Ons

Sick of Alt Print screen? not a fan of paying for Viso?  Just stumbled on these awesome Firefox add-ons which can replace Viso and print screening… Screen capture – Aviary https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11587 Viso replacement  – Pencil https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487

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Google now has Buzz?

It might not be a facebook killer as it has some limitations at this stage although any new products out there do cause the current main stream apps to rethink what they do… Hopefully this doesn’t lead to facebook having another interface  change. (this is first product i have notice from google with out the word [...]

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Check accessibility via Firefox

Just found this lovely little toolbar add on for Firefox to test accessibility. http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar

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Using Twitter as an alert

For the development Sydney New Year’s Eve web site they wanted the abiliity to be able to add alearts to the site via multiple entry points (web, sms, web phone). With limited time and no budget also i really didn’t want to build something from scratch (more so why would you?) i took twitter and [...]

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PSD Browser chrome

Another consideration when designing a web site is what size do you design for? The type of site and who it is for will determine most of this although in general you should have ready made up standards. My rule of thumb is to design for screen resolutions of  1024 x 768 although make sure you [...]

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Contact Form with XML output

Every lost your phone contacts? When i first got my Iphone – somehow I managed to wipe the sim card clean…   Instead of manually entering all the contact details  i built a contact form which out-puts an  xml file. This file is easily manageable/editable and quickly able to be imported into my iphone via Gmail [...]

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Browser stats

Have found from several sources with varied summarized stats on browsers and resolution that overall IE is dominate as a collective although as individual browsers (6 – 8)  holds less market share than that of  firefox. It also shows that IE is dropping in ussage over the years – down 30% 2004 – 2010. Where on [...]

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Hamish Beattie - interface designer