Via Oscar, a great discussion of where and how to balance design considerations against cost of construction and maintenance. Quick but very valuable read.
Description of Chapter 3's (high profile Drupal-based consultancy) design process, starting with a template of common Drupal elements so everything is captured and the design process is sped up and costs of implementation are reduced. Template is download
So What is "Feed to JavaScript"?
An RSS Feed is a dynamically generated summary (in XML format) of information or news published on other web sites- so when the published RSS changes, your web site will be automatically changed too.
We're pleased to announce that more than $20 million has been given through the Causes Application since our launch in 2007. Most importantly, giving on Causes in 2009 increased more than 4 times over giving in 2008. Here's a graph of giving on Causes
How design and development are inextricably intertwined. I'm positive Jonathan Ive didn't design the iPod in a room by himself, but worked with engineers to push what was possible and find the best way to make the technology work for the design instead of
acebook Platform has evolved since its launch in 2007, providing developers with a number of different communication channels to interact with their users. In October 2009 we announced a roadmap for developers that outlined a number of improvements includ
While terrible in scope and nature, catastrophes like the Haiti earthquake bring out the best in people. In the age of social media, we get to witness this firsthand.
No one reads anymore, and you're not going to read this. You're going to scan it.
We need to more seriously consider how application design evolves in that context.
Great article on how to get designers and developers to work effectively to render designs in HTML, as well as a reality check about pixel-perfect rendering in every browser (graceful degradation is the preferred method)
"What we've seen over time is that as Facebook has grown in the U.S. population, we've come to represent a cross-section" of Americans who are online, said Cameron Marlow, the Facebook data scientist who led the study.
New improvements to google analytics including videos on how to use some of them. Most important ones include unique visitor tracking and alerts for activity on your site. Also more mobile tracking
Maps tell powerful stories about the communities and the world in which we live. Maps are a visualization tool, a way to help us transform columns of data into useful knowledge about the people and places around us.
The MapTogether project provides fre
During my career as a Web strategy consultant I've often had people ask me, "How do I do social media?" Unfortunately the answer isn't simple. But the first step is the same as if you developing any other marketing strategy: know your market. To "know you
