February 2012
4 posts
Input type=submit VS Button type=submit
A partir de ahora en vez de utilizar en los formularios como Botón de submit el código siguiente: <input type=”submit” name=”button1” value=”Button1” /> Voy a a utilizarlo así: <button type=”submit” name=”button1” value=”somevalue”>Button1</button> Las razones a favor:     Es...
Feb 24th
noty - THE jQuery notification plugin →
With a lot options to choose from, Noty takes charge of the notification system of any website. I personally don’t like the base CSS style but it won’t be hard to apply the Twitter Bootstrap notifications style
Feb 20th
jQuery Org Chart – a plugin for visualising data... →
jQuery OrgChart is a plugin that allows you to render structures with nested elements in a easy-to-read tree structure. To build the tree all you need is to make a single line call to the plugin and supply the HTML element Id for a nested unordered list element that is representative of the data you’d like to display. Features include: Very easy to use given a nested unordered list element. ...
Feb 17th
Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0 | Twitter Developers →
What’s new Bootstrap 2 brings a plethora of changes and new features to the toolkit, many added as a result feedback from the community. In addition, much of our work was guided by our experiences of working on Twitter.com’s latest redesign where we created a flexible and durable design system. We took the same approach to Bootstrap 2 and came away with more features, better documentation,...
Feb 1st
January 2012
11 posts
Bootstrap2, from Twitter →
 Built for and by nerds Like you, we love building awesome products on the web. We love it so much, we decided to help people just like us do it easier, better, and faster. Bootstrap is built for you.  For all skill levels Bootstrap is designed to help people of all skill level—designer or developer, huge nerd or early beginner. Use it as a complete kit or use to start something more...
Jan 28th
HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly →
Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are
Jan 26th
Sisyphus.js, a library that helps save the state... →
Sisyphus.js it’s a library that helps save the state of your forms with the use of HTML5 Local Storage. “Imagine you’re filling a complex form on site, or typing effervescent and extensive comment. And when you’re almost done with that browser is crashed, or you closed tab mistakenly, or electricity is turned off, or something else break your efforts. Disgusting, huh? ...
Jan 25th
Javascript Best Practices →
Table Of Contents Always Use ‘var’ Feature-Detect Rather Than Browser-Detect Use Square Bracket Notation Avoid ‘eval’ Reference Forms and Form Elements Correctly Avoid ‘with’ Statements Use onclick In Anchors Instead Of javascript: Pseudo-Protocol Use The Unary + Operator To TypeConvert To Number Avoid document.all Don’t Use HTML Comments In...
Jan 24th
jQuery UI Bootstrap 0.2 Released →
Today I am happy to announce the release of jQuery UI Bootstrap 0.2. This release includes a number of bug fixes and new additions to the theme and can be downloaded from the release site now.
Jan 21st
jQuery TextExt Plugin to provide functionality... →
TextExt is a plugin for jQuery which is designed to provide functionality such as tag input and autocomplete. The core design principle behind TextExt is modularity and extensibility. Each piece of functionality is separated from the main core and can act individually or together with other plugins.
Jan 21st
5 Crucial Points Before Becoming a Freelance Web... →
A freelance career offers a plethora of opportunities and rewards for web designers like you, just itching to make it on your own. At the same time, it can lead to a lot of headache, even failure, if you don’t grasp a few basic skills that extend beyond your creative talents in graphic design. With a focus on the entrepreneurial spirit, let’s discuss the 5 critical points that you must know before...
Jan 15th
Perfection kills » Profiling CSS for fun and... →
Aside from looking into bottlenecks on Javascript/DOM side, I decided to step into the CSS land. I wanted to see the kind of impact these nice UI elements have on performance. The old version of the app — the one without all the fluff — was much snappier, even though the JS logic behind it hasn’t changed all that drastically. I could see by scrolling and animations that things are just not as...
Jan 13th
Fbootstrapp by Clemens Krack, based on Bootstrap,... →
Based on Bootstrap Fbootstrap is based on Twitter’s excellent Bootstrap, as the name might indicate. Fbootstrapp is a toolkit designed to kickstart development of facebook iframe apps in both relevant sizes. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more, styled in the typical facebook look and feel.
Jan 13th
This is Your Year | Passive Panda →
Jan 5th
Google 2 Step Authentication Review — The... →
Working in IT you’d think I’d know better; however, this got me thinking about all the information I have stored in my Google account. Access to my email alone would allow access to other sensitive information, which as a flow on from my emails gives them access to other websites indirectly. Password resets to the email address for other non-Google applications or sites could be performed, as...
Jan 3rd
December 2011
17 posts
Natural Link Building 101 →
Link building is one of the most important things you can do in terms of off-site search engine optimization. As you probably know by now, search engines like Google tend to rank pages higher in search results based on the number and quality of links to those pages. Essentially, the more links you have, the more likely you will be to rank well when someone searches for keywords related to your...
Dec 25th
Turning Small Web Projects Into Big Profit, A Case... →
Turning Small Projects Into Big Profit, A Case Study
Dec 20th
Mobile Web Best Practices | Helping People Make... →
Dec 20th
Extends and Control Directives: Two Crazy Things... →
Dec 18th
“Una de las cosas más fascinantes de los programadores es que no puedes saber si...”
Dec 18th
Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck. Optimization... →
jQuery is an amazing tool that’s made JavaScript accessible to developers and designers of all levels of experience. However, as Spiderman taught us, “with great power comes great responsibility.” The unfortunate downside to jQuery is that while it makes it easy to write JavaScript, it makes it easy to write really really f*&#ing bad JavaScript. Scripts that slow down page load, unresponsive...
Dec 14th
Weekly Freebies: 20 Fantastic Free PSD UI Kits |... →
Dec 13th
Learn How To Increase Your Conversions From These... →
Understanding how the mind operates is an essential part of marketing and conversions, and always has been. Today, we are fortunate to have benefited from professional psychological research studies that can give us a much better understanding of how people work, rather than using blind guesses and hunches. People are very sensitive to taking all sorts of queues that affect their outlook on your...
Dec 13th
An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) -... →
Have you ever heard the phrase “Content is King”? Being a Web developer, and therefore having a job that’s often linked to content creation, it’s likely you have. It’s a fairly overused but true statement about what draws visitors to a site. From a Web developer’s perspective, however, some may argue that speed is king. More and more, I’m starting to favour that stance. In recent years many...
Dec 12th
Desktop Wallpapers: Christmas Edition (December... →
Dec 11th
Dec 9th
Smart Validate – jQuery Credit Card Format... →
Smart Validate is a jQuery credit card validation plugin, that makes credit card format validation a simple task. It ensures that user has entered valid credit card number before making actual transaction. Supports all major credit cards (American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Discover, Diners Club).
Dec 8th
What the Klout | INFOGRAPHICS →
Dec 7th
Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building... →
An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. Flexible Grid The Grid lets you lay out pages quickly and logically with a flexible, nestable system. Even better, the Grid can be whatever size you need — it’s easily adapted to any size screens, from phones to TVs. Rapid Prototyping Foundation includes dozens of styles...
Dec 5th
FancyBoxv2 is out! - Fancy jQuery Lightbox... →
What’s new Version 2 is completely rewritten with new features and updated graphics. Notable changes Extendable using helpers Responsive (try resizing window while fancyBox is open) Integrated slideshow New gallery transitions Uses CSS3 (shadows, round corners) Updated plugin options (not compatible with previous versions) Now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial...
Dec 3rd
Dec 2nd
9 Steps to Better Conversions - The C.R.E.... →
Dec 2nd
November 2011
18 posts
The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward -... →
Nov 30th
Will the Browser Wars Invade the Mobile Web? →
Nov 29th
A List Apart: Articles: Getting Started with Sass →
CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its defining, most welcome features. CSS style sheets are just long lists of rules, each consisting of a selector and some styles to apply. But as our websites and applications get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so welcome as we first started to move away from font tags and table-based...
Nov 29th
Trello, collaboration tool that organizes your... →
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.
Nov 23rd
Pep Gómez 18 year-old tech entrepreneur and music... →
Pep Gómez es un emprendedor castellonense de 18 años que se encuentra trabajando en la meca de la tecnología, en Silicon Valley (Estados Unidos). Es, además, diseñador, inversor en empresas de tecnología, productor musical y ha trabajado en la organización de eventos como Iniciador, iWeekend o Campus Party.
Nov 22nd
Mozilla CSS Reference - MDN →
This an alphabetical list of CSS features. If you are going to add or modify a page, please fit in with the template CSS Reference:Property Template and modify as required. The basic template for example pages can be found here:samples/cssref/TEMPLATE.html. Feel free to discuss any questions or suggestions on the Talk:CSS Reference page. See also Mozilla CSS Extensions for Gecko-specific...
Nov 18th
Bootstrap, from Twitter →
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more. Nerd alert: Bootstrap is built with Less and was designed to work out of the gate with modern browsers in mind.
Nov 12th
Got Klout? Measure and Increase your Brand’s... →
Nov 12th
Surf the Web Together — Channel.me →
You know how it is: you can try to verbally explain to someone how a website works, but nothing is easier or clearer than simply showing them what you’re talking about. Surf the Web Together now makes it easy to do exactly that. Simply paste the URL of the website that you want to show to your friend into the channel bar, and click “Create Channel.” Your friend on the other side of the world...
Nov 10th
Mobile Performance Manifesto | David Calhoun's... →
Nov 9th
Lungo.js - Mobile Framework... and stuff. →
Meet the first Mobile Framework that uses the actual features of #HTML5, #CSS3 and #JavaScript. Design and make applications for iOS, Android, Blackberry and WebOs. Designed to take advantage of the features of current mobile devices. Capture events like Swipe, Tap, Double-Tap… Distribute your app in “Mobile Stores” or in websites. No need images, everything is vector. ...
Nov 6th
Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For... →
Nov 6th
jQuery Version and Plugin Usage Report | BuiltWith... →
jQuery Version Usage Popular jQuery Plugins
Nov 6th
jQuery: » jQuery 1.7 Released →
What’s new? New Event APIs: .on() and .off() Improved Performance on Delegated Events Better Support for HTML5 in IE6/7/8 Toggling Animations Work Intuitively Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) jQuery.Deferred jQuery.isNumeric()
Nov 4th
16 Insights into Google's Rating Guidelines |... →
Sorry, No Secrets Here If you’re looking for SEO “secrets,” you’ll be disappointed by this post. Although this is an internal document, and Google may not be happy about it being leaked, you won’t find a smoking gun here. What you will find is a training manual on Google’s philosophy of quality. The key to proactive SEO is to understand how Google thinks. If you only chase the algorithm, you’ll...
Nov 3rd
Firebug Guide for Web Designers →
Firebug Guide for Web Designers Firebug — an open source web development tool extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser — is incredibly powerful, with a wide range of super useful and practical features that would benefit any web designer or developer. In fact, this browser extension (also available in other web browsers with limited functionality) is so useful and popular that it...
Nov 3rd
Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for... →
Titanium makes cross-platform native application development easy. A free and open source application development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP. Learn More.
Nov 2nd
Framework for Designing for Multiple Devices | UX... →
Weigh the pros and cons of both the mediums and decide what works best for you. Mobile Webs Reach a larger audience The majority of users don’t own a smartphone and don’t access app stores. They are more likely to use a mobile browser and access the Internet from their mobile phones. The barriers to accessing a site via a browser are lower than those to downloading an app, even for Smartphone...
Nov 2nd