Michael Doyle | Blog

Web Development – Minimise Load Times

Smashing Magazine has tweeted a very informative link on how to minimize web page load times. It lists some great tools which analyse load times.

http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/how-to-minimize-load-time-for-fast-user-experiences/

Web Design – Inspiration

Six Revisions have a good article covering the design of various great looking portfolios online.

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/five-popular-design-portfolio-website-styles/

Web Design – Wireframing

Smashing Magazine has a great article about wireframing, tools to create wireframes and why it's better to design wireframes first.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/01/35-excellent-wireframing-resources/

Web Development – Adding recent tweets to your web page

To insert your most recent tweets on to a web page paste this code:

 
<ul id="twitter_update_list">Loading...</ul>
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js" defer></script>
 
<script type="text/javascript" 
src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5" defer></script>
 

You change "USERNAME" to your twitter account name and you set the "count" to show the number of tweets you want displayed.

Web Design – Inspiration

Pixelactic have a list of 40 very nice looking sites for some design inspiration.

http://pixelactic.com/2009/08/40-fresh-beautiful-websites-for-design-inspiration/

Photoshop – Designing Web Elements

Carsonified has an interesting artocle with some photoshop tutorials on design elements for the web with Photoshop.

http://carsonified.com/blog/design/5-advanced-photoshop-techniques-for-web-designers/

Web Development – Mod Rewrite Rules

Noupe has a good article on the basics of Mod Rewrite and a list of further resources on it.

http://www.noupe.com/php/10-mod_rewrite-rules-you-should-know.html

SEO – Tools

1stwebdesigner.com has a list of great tools to use for SEO purposes:

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/20-free-keyword-research-tools-comprehensive-insight/

Web Development – htaccess

Noupe has an article on htaccess simple tips and techniques.

http://www.noupe.com/php/htaccess-techniques.html

Web Development – Javascript

Noupe has a good resource on a list of articles for beginners of Javascript. Dropdown menus, progress bars, and form validation is covered along with some other good tutorials.

http://www.noupe.com/javascript/javascript-for-designers.html