Great Mobile Testing Website

So I’m reading through Cameron Moll’s book Mobile Web Design, which I love by the way, and came across a few mentions of Ready.mobi. So I thought I would check it out. Read more

Book Review: Mobile Web Design

You’ve probably seen many reviews on Cameron Moll’s book Mobile Web Design around recently. I thought I’d add my own.

I purchased Cameron’s book on Wednesday and have been thumbing through it off and on. I find it extremely enlightening. Not only is the book well written, he provides links to some very informative pages about mobile standards and good mobile design practices. I’ve added quite a few new feeds to my reader after reading this book. Read more

Safari on Windows!

Its official! Apple has released a beta version of their web browser, Safari.

This is an exciting time for web designers married to their windows boxes, myself included. Safari is, in my opinion, the fastest rendering modern browser available. Not to mention the first of only a handful of browser to pass the Acid2 Browser Test.

Today is a good day!

apple, safari, beta, windows

Is There a Standard for Tracking Website Visits?

At work I’ve been asked numerous times “How man unique visits do we get?”. To which I reply, “It depends who you talk to.”

We run a handful of traffic software packages to help get a handle on all the different statistics incorporated with running a successful website. Google Analytics, Mint and a very simple page view counter I developed in house. Each package takes a different approach to computing unique visits: Read more

Wordpress as A CMS

Yes, I know this isn’t anything new, but I’m quickly becoming a big advocate of using wordpress as a CMS for client websites. Read more

Tableless Web Design

Just out of curiosity, has anyone read the book by Rachel Andrew and Daniel Shafer entitled HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS? I’m tempted to take a look at it as I’m always looking for new CSS resources.

css, html, web design

Some Great Material

First off, please accept my humblest apologies for neglecting this blog. It was never my intention to go this long without posting something. In my defense, I’ve been super busy redesigning a client’s website and cleaning up my resume for a job opening at Washington State University. I know, it’s still no excuse.

I haven’t come across anything worth devoting an entire post to lately. So I thought I’d just throw up a few quick links to some excellent reading material I’ve come across this week:

• Getting Started with AJAX
• Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation
• Flywheels, Kinetic Energy, and Friction

Internet Explorer 7 Beta

Has anyone installed and played with IE 7 Beta yet? After viewing some of its new features at the Microsoft CES Keynote, I’d thought I’d give it a chance.

“My first impression, the logo is uglier than before (see above image). Over all though, the interface is a little better than before. Atleast they FINALLY picked up tabbed browsing. As far as adhering to web standards, I haven’t noticed any major quirks, but I haven’t put it through the ringer yet.

One really cool feature that I just love is the Tab Preview Button. If you have multiple tabs open, you can look just to the left of the left-most tab and you’ll see and icon of 4 boxes. Clicking on that icon takes you to a page of preview shots of all the tabs you have open. I’m surprised I haven’t seen this implemented into Firefox as an extension yet. If you can’t seem to go on with life until you have Internet Explorer 7 Beta installed on your machine, you can download it here.

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Internet Explorer and Forms

I ran across this little quirk with Internet Explorer the other day. It appears that when a form is submitted by actually clicking the submit button, an element in the PHP array $_POST is created for the button. Simple enough, right? Well I noticed that when the form was submitted by pressing the Enter key instead of clicking the submit button, an element in the $_POST array was not created for the button. It’s not an exceptionally large quirk, but definitely caused me to rethink my form submission checking. Firefox and Safari created the array element for the button regardless of how the form was submitted.. This occured with Internet Explorer 6.0 and PHP version 5.0.3
Internet Explorer, PHP, forms

New Layout

If you hadn’t noticed yet. I did a little redesign. I know its not much but atleast now it’s Valid Markup. Having only a Windows machine, I’m unable to test on some browsers. If you own a mac, please let me know of any bugs or quirks you run across along with what browser you were using.

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