Tim Benniks' Blog about front-end development and other nifty stuff

jQuery notice featured on papermashup.com

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

Once upon a time, all we needed to worry about was reducing Bytes and Requests and playing around with load order to…

I have a new job as a front-end developer at Mirabeau in Amsterdam.

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

Dutch web developer Floris Benniks tried Zotonic in a work session we had the other day. After this session he had…

In this post I will explain how to install Zotonic on OSX. If you are not really acquainted with Terminal.app, you will…

As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth.

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

At the moment, web fonts are all the buzz. After reading this post, you designer will love you! It describes how the…

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

If you have ever worked with a developer or a development team, this article will probably strike close to home. As…

This is project is a simple jQuery plugin called jQuery Notice. As the names says, you can give notification to the…

This is the project page for the CSS Framework Atatonic to make my life as a web developer easier. It is created out of…

I have been asked to do the development of the Stukafest website. KleiDesign drew the templates and I made sure they…

It is no secret that users prefer faster web sites. But what happens during the time a user waits for a page to load?

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much…

This post is about web typography and it's recipe of four fundamental ingredients. Typography is cool, hip and artful.

Round corners. Something that should be easy, right? Not so much. It seems they were left out of the CSS 2.1…

There are a lot of simple things that can be done when building a website for a client that will help increase the…

There was a time when many, many, forms on the web had a reset button. Thankfully, reset buttons are not quite as…

We built a new content management system which will be released as open source. The CMS is loosely based on Semantic…

In an earlier post I wrote about the reasons why we started building the content management system Zotonic using the…