Frye / Wiles Blog Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
We here at Frye / Wiles use the term “Results-Oriented” a lot, and for good reason - we could rattle off all the technical mumbo-jumbo in the world to our clients, but in the end, what is important to them is the result they get from hiring us. So, going against our instincts as nerds, we have forced ourselves to approach all projects (and in-project details) with the results-oriented mentality. Results and ROI for our customers is what we are working toward. With that in mind, I’m going to jump right into Part 1 of my illustrious series, “What’s Involved in Ecommerce” (see the Prologue first if you haven’t read that yet and feel lost at this point)
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I came to the conclusion that I wish I had a provider that would send me an arsenal of websites, providing me with information and resources that would be helpful in my day to day activities. Well, I am going to try to be that provider for you each week. The first website that I think would be useful is a site called WebAppers.
It’s a blog created by a freelance web developer named Ray Cheung. The blog has users submitting everything from fonts, open source applications, news articles, tutorials, to cool illustrated icons. So check it out and I hope it helps.
Not to steal Dani’s thunder, which is an impossible task by the way, I rounded up some sites that I visit when I need some design inspiration. Most of these sites are a good way to see how other people creatively layout design using CSS.
1. CSS Zen Garden
The first good site to go to is CSS Zen Garden. You can view the many different designs of what people are doing using CSS. This site is intended for designers to participate and submit their own CSS creations using Zen Garden’s original HTML markup and CSS style sheet for you to download. If Zen Garden likes your work, they will then showcase your wonderful design to the masses.
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There is a lot of confusion out there as to what it actually takes to design, develop and manage a webstore. It is actually very common for us to get phone calls from people wanting to build fully customized ecommerce solutions for, oh, say $250 (not kidding).
Which got me thinking, why is this? (more…)
You may have noticed that we here at Frye / Wiles post in our blog a lot. Why, you ask, do we do it? Are we really that full of ourselves?
Well, yes. But that’s not the reason. When it comes down to it, Google (and the other major search engines) loves blogs. They prioritize indexing on blogs (and other sites that are updated very frequently), to really a quite ridiculous degree. (more…)
Plugging content into a website is the most monotonous part of web design. Most of the time its apple-c from word, apple-v to html, Rinse Repeat. One secret weapon though is to use a converter for the text so that all the garbled up entities from word don’t slip into your html.
This HTML UTF-8 Entity Encoder is what we use to make sure that our text is clean when we drop it in the HTML.
Just paste your text in, convert, copy the clean text and paste that in your html doc. That simple.
Posted by Julian
Posted on 03-26-2008 under
Development
Downtime happens. That is a fact in all things web-based. Sadly, we sometimes have to take our websites or at least sections of a site off line to do some maintenance or upgrading. What’s most important is that you pick the best time for such downtime.
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What good is a website if users can’t get from page to page? Even worse, what if search engines can’t get from page to page? It’s useless, and that’s the last thing you want. Essentially, if you want your website to be usable by everyday people, then it needs to be navigable by computers, and here are a few steps to do just that.
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When we talk about topics such about CSS, JavaScript, and sometimes even certain image formats (png24, I’m looking at you), and how they render in a client’s browser, we always, or should always also consider cross-browser behavior. This behavior entails many things: CSS rendering, the availability of CSS specific attributes, whether or not the DOM interface will be the same, general JavaScript behavior — the list goes on and on. And, since most discussions about CSS and JavaScript (at least the ones that I am having) also concern this variable nature, I’m coining (maybe I’m the first) a new term to put all of this into a handy little phrase, “Cross-Browser Consistency,” or, in typical programmer fashion, simply, “XBC.”
Let’s take a brief moment to establish a more exact meaning for this phrase. As you may well be aware, the industry commonly talks about cross-browser support, so we’ll differentiate between support and consistency, as well as defining what cross-browser really means, and some other tidbits as to boot.
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And a wrong way.
To visit Frye/Wiles blog <a href="http://www.fryewiles.com">go here</a>.
Lets go over a few reasons.
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