Apr 07
2013
You know it. A website should be self-explanatory, navigation should be obvious. “Don’t make me think!” If you need a manual to tell your visitors how to use your website, you’re a dead man designer walking. This is generally true. But! Imagine you changed your website, but ever so slightly that your regular visitors won’t even notice. But! You want them to notice, because to you and at best also to your visitors these changes are a big deal, though not obvious. Would it not be great to have a possibility to gently poke the attention of your visitors to the right direction? Intro.js is a framework to achieve just that. It guides your visitors around the fresh parts of your website and has some tooltips at hand.
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Apr 06
2013
Of course it is advisable, no, mandatory to have your source code checked, double-checked and validated to avoid errors and to ensure standards compliance. Instead of having your project run through one of the many validators out there, you can opt to use the brand-new diagnostic tool by the clever name of Holmes to achieve the same. Holmes is a tool, that uses CSS to check your source code for non-compliant and invalid HTML. Here is how it does it…
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Apr 05
2013
Each month, I bring to you a roundup of some of the best free themes released for self-hosted WordPress websites. Now that March has ended, here is this month’s edition!
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Apr 04
2013
Long gone are the times where we had to code CSS entirely by hand. It’s already been a while since more and more little helpers started to get created. These little helpers usually cover one single aspect of CSS and support it with a more or less elaborate graphical UI for visual development in the likes of WYSIWYG. Today I want to introduce you to a rather new service from Spain, which comes to cover four basic missions every CSS developer has to accomplish. The service is called CSS Matic and its creators are quite known in the field of web design.
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Apr 03
2013
Developers around jQuery are very active. At an hourly rate new plugins are brought up, that previously had not or not in this form been available. You can hardly keep track of the progress. There are big, disruptive projects, but lots more small helpers for various use-cases. We have dug up five of these little helpers for you.
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Apr 01
2013
CheckPanel is a brand-new web app from Germany. It aims at the organization of recurring tasks around maintaining a website. One of the many use-cases could be the inevitable check whether an URL is reachable or not, the so-called web monitoring. But, as experienced admins will confirm, there are a lot more things to check regularly when you want a website to run flawlessly.
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