Frye / Wiles Blog Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
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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There is a right way to link.
<a href="http://blog.fryewiles.com" title="Link to Frye/Wiles - a Riverside Web Design Blog" rel="follow">Top notch design blog in Riverside CA</a>
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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Posted by Justin
Posted on 03-02-2008 under
Development
As a programming department, it is always our goal to code in such a manner that makes use of methods that provide, on average, the fastest execution times. In today’s discussion, we’ll be testing the many different ways to process and interact with arrays in PHP in the first of three main areas: reading, modifying, and reconstructing. (more…)
Map out your pagerank!
If you have built out a website, by this point you are a bit familiar with the site map. Creating site structure for your website goes beyond grouping like topics. By creating intuitive navigation and properly grouping like pages we can control the site’s overall function; ergo, increasing its conversion rate.
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Content is the most important part of your website. There, I said it.
SEO blog post concerning its importance
Michael Martinez writes about the same thing, I highly recommend reading his post before you begin working on your site.
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Posted by Andrew
Posted on 01-09-2008 under
Development
Using good design and implementation practices can be the difference between your client’s site having many years of reliable and incident-free service, and catastrophe. That said, I would like to discuss over the next few weeks a few implementation practices that the Programming Department at Frye / Wiles either already follows on a regular basis, or is evaluating for future use.
Our lesson for today will be in protecting ourselves and our clients’ property from an unexpected server crash.
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Websites take time to develop.
Especially custom websites that integrate clean design with intuitive web functionality. So, not something like this. And as much as clients would love, and actually expect in some cases, for us to push the magic ‘make website NOW’ button, it’s quite obviously unrealistic. Obvious to people who have even a bare minimum understanding as to how the Internet works. Sadly, however, many clients mistakenly think that developing a website takes about as much time and skill as replacing a shower head. (more…)
Since we, as a firm, and myself particularly, tend to gravitate toward web applications rather than web sites, we often find ourselves challenged to originate new interfaces and layouts that are not only conducive to simplicity and ease in usability, but also focused on achieving whatever, usually monetary, goals that the project may specify. Because of this, I find myself asking the question of what entails not only an effective, but an intuitive layout.
As the bright ones among you may have inferred, this is a simply a sneak-peak into my next article. We’ll be discussing layouts centered around two key points: effectiveness, and intuitiveness.
That’s it. Stick around.
Its Friday night, got a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck and a receipt for a new domain, lets talk about cheat’n the Google…
Or not.
So, you’re starting to learn about Search Engine Optimization. You know that having strong Hn tags, page titles and a high keyword density are going to help your ranking on Google. Problem is, you can only fit the term “discount thimble sales” into your introduction paragraph so many times without sounding like a robot. This is were it gets tempting to cheat. (more…)
Today, we’re talking about color, its use on the web and how it is (in)effectively rendered cross-browser and cross-platform. (more…)
