http://www.developertutorials.com Web Development and Web Design Information Resources Helping You Build Great Websites! Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:53:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/javascript/design-and-web-applications-pt-5-307/ http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/javascript/design-and-web-applications-pt-5-307/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:58:56 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/javascript/design-and-web-applications-pt-5-307/ We’ve been looking at what makes a good Web Application design good. We’ll continue that thought with Mint.com the financial account managing software. Flashy Where It Counts download deep purple purpendicular Financial software have a bad wrap for being boring to look at, even more boring to use, and incredibly boring to think about. When [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/javascript/design-and-web-applications-pt-5-307/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/design-and-web-applications-pt-4-302/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/design-and-web-applications-pt-4-302/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:43:17 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/design-and-web-applications-pt-4-302/ .!. Web applications are the commodity to deal in on the internet these days but what makes them successful isn’t always their function, often times design plays a huge role. Today I’m taking a look at five apps that exemplify various aspects of great Web App design. Don’t Waste Space In the early days of [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/design-and-web-applications-pt-4-302/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/content-blogging/design-and-web-applications-pt-2-293/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/content-blogging/design-and-web-applications-pt-2-293/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:15:24 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/design-and-web-applications-pt-2-293/ One critical factor many new start-ups forget is that half of creating a successful web app is making sure that its well designed and easy to use. In this part of our series we’ll continue looking at well designed web applications…. 37Signals are like the MVPs of web developers. Not only did the lead developers [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/content-blogging/design-and-web-applications-pt-2-293/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/design-and-web-applications-pt-1-290/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/design-and-web-applications-pt-1-290/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:00:45 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/design-and-web-applications-pt-1-290/ Web applications are all the rage these days as cloud computing becomes the standard way of doing things. Whether it’s Facebook apps, Web clients, Flash, Adobe Air Apps or anything else that’s becoming ubiquitous, a huge part of the development of these applications is design and what you an learn from the design of quality [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/design-and-web-applications-pt-1-290/feed/ 2 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/snipplr-a-code-repository-for-designers-and-developers-281/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/snipplr-a-code-repository-for-designers-and-developers-281/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:50:19 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/snipplr-a-code-repository-for-designers-and-developers-281/ Snipplr.com is like del.icio.us for people who write a lot of code. Whether you develop for Ruby or Django, hack WordPress or MovableType, or if you just write XHTML, you probably keep a “Code Diary” full of useful tricks, hacks and hints that you’ve used in past projects. Snipplr exists to let you share that [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/snipplr-a-code-repository-for-designers-and-developers-281/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/designer-block-277/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/designer-block-277/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:08:23 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/designer-block-277/ Although I love design and web development, there are some days when I hit something akin to the writer’s wall. There really are days when I would rather bang my head against the wall than try to conjure up something new an exciting for a new client. I wrote about some places that I find [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/designer-block-277/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/content-blogging/google-webmaster-qa-quotes-276/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/content-blogging/google-webmaster-qa-quotes-276/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:10:22 +0000 Scout http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/content-blogging/google-webmaster-qa-quotes-276/ From time to time, Google hosts live chats with webmasters attended by some of their key developers. If anything, this is a great venue to ask that nagging question in your head. The first time this was held was in March 2008, and you can read the details of the successful launch at SEOroundtable.com. As [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/content-blogging/google-webmaster-qa-quotes-276/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/opera-and-firefox-makers-talk-css3-274/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/opera-and-firefox-makers-talk-css3-274/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:25:16 +0000 JonGos http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/opera-and-firefox-makers-talk-css3-274/ Extensible Hypertext Markup (XML) has changed the web as we knew it and helped to make websites rich, well designed and fast loading. It’s become an integral part of Web 2.0 that won’t be going away any time soon. So what’s next for CSS? Mozilla and the Opera Software company give us some clues as [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/opera-and-firefox-makers-talk-css3-274/feed/ 2 http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/general/the-1090-rule-for-web-analytics-275/ http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/general/the-1090-rule-for-web-analytics-275/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:17:53 +0000 Scout http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/web/the-1090-rule-for-web-analytics-275/ Some people look at graphs with blank faces. I happen to study them with a smile, like I did when I still had a cubicle job as a Quality Analyst. Ever since I discovered Google Analytics, I’ve used it religiously to increase traffic for a few niche blogs that I own with reasonable success. Google [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/articles/general/the-1090-rule-for-web-analytics-275/feed/ 0 http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/javascript/maintaining-history-in-ajax-applications-272/ http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/javascript/maintaining-history-in-ajax-applications-272/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:38:06 +0000 Akash Mehta http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/javascript/maintaining-history-in-ajax-applications-272/ For client-side web developers, maintaining history – and working with the default “back” and “forward” browser buttons – can be a major challenge for building an effective AJAX web application. As HTTP is fundamentally stateless, the current URL has long been the standard for recording a user’s current “location”. With the Really Simply History library, [...]]]> http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/javascript/maintaining-history-in-ajax-applications-272/feed/ 1