Archive for 2010.

• Non-blocking JavaScript roundup

  

  Non-blocking JavaScript has been a hot topic for a while now. I am going to try to explain why JavaScript blocks the browser while rendering a page and how you can solve this issue. This article is a… 8 comments

• Progressive enhancement: you have to do it together to make it work

  

  This is an article about how we can deal with progressive enhancement when used with real-life projects, by real-life projects I mean the big projects with demanding clients that we are all familiar… 2 comments

• My new fluffy CSS3 layout

  

  I decided to tear down the heavy javascripting I have been doing lately and dove into CSS3 and HMTL5 again. This website is the result of that research.

• Mediafonds updated

  

  The Mediafonds website was recently relaunched after finishing the second phase of the project.

• jQuery notice featured on papermashup.com

  

  My jQuery "Growl-like" notification plugin has been featured on papermashup.com! Cool stuff! Thanks Ashley! 2 comments

• About jQuery and performance

  

  Once upon a time, all we needed to worry about was reducing Bytes and Requests and playing around with load order to make things faster. Nowadays, we are increasingly impacting one more major… 1 comment

• How to make a simple contact form in Zotonic

  

  This tutorial teaches you to create a form, validate it, submit it over Ajax and e-mail the results back to you. 1 comment

• Zotonic's speed, A benchmark by Floris Benniks

  

  Dutch web developer Floris Benniks tried Zotonic in a work session we had the other day. After this session he had rebuild his site in Zotonic. Both his old php site and the new Zotonic site where… 3 comments

• Step by step guide to install Zotonic on OSX

  

  In this post I will explain how to install Zotonic on OSX. If you are not really acquainted with Terminal.app, you will be after this! 15 comments

• The myth of the page fold

  

  As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. Over the last 6 years cxpartners have watched over 800 user testing sessions and…

• timbenniks.nl featured at 1stwebdesigner.com

  

  My website has been featured at 1stwebdesigner.com by Andy Walpole in a post about hmtl5 and the future of the web.

• Cross-browser @font-face support

  

  At the moment, web fonts are all the buzz. After reading this post, you designer will love you! It describes how the usage @font-face works cross-browser.

• Zotonic destroys WordPress and rethinks the CMS with Erlang

  

  Chad DePue from Erlanginside.com did an Interview with Marc Worrell, who is one of the principal developers of Zotonic.

• How to effectively communicate with developers.

  

  If you have ever worked with a developer or a development team, this article will probably strike close to home. As designers, we work with dozens of developers across the globe each year. Some of us…

• jQuery “growl–like” notification plugin.

  

  This is project is a simple jQuery plugin called jQuery Notice. As the names says, you can give notification to the users of your side. 7 comments

• About the Atatonic CSS Framework.

  

  This is the project page for the CSS Framework Atatonic to make my life as a web developer easier. It is created out of my experience as a front end engineer and because some new big projects are…

• Hands on rules for a fast website.

  

  It is no secret that users prefer faster web sites. But what happens during the time a user waits for a page to load? The key insight is the realization that only 10-20% of the total end-user…

• Composing with web typography.

  

  Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities. — Robert Bringhurst.

• The basics of web typography.

  

  This post is about web typography and it's recipe of four fundamental ingredients. Typography is cool, hip and artful. Therefore it's a shame that it's basic requirements are almost never met by web…

• Cross-browser rounded corners.

  

  Round corners. Something that should be easy, right? Not so much. It seems they were left out of the CSS 2.1 specification. No matter, there are a couple of ways to hack them out and make them look…

• How to enhance your websites SEO

  

  There are a lot of simple things that can be done when building a website for a client that will help increase the likelihood of the website having good search engine results. In this post I will…

• (Almost) never add a reset button to a form.

  

  There was a time when many, many, forms on the web had a reset button. Thankfully, reset buttons are not quite as common these days, but there are enough of them out there to cause users lots of…

• Zotonic—A pragmatic and modern CMS.

  

  We built a new content management system which will be released as open source. The CMS is loosely based on Semantic Web principles and builds upon our experience building web sites, content… 1 comment