Links for light reading 30-6-10

Posted in Links on 30 June 2010 | Comments [1]

Here are a few links from around the web that I have spotted recently:

• If you ever receive spreadsheet data from a client and get asked to ‘just add this to our website’, you might be interested in Tableizer which converts spreadsheet data to HTML tables.
• Have fun with borders is a simple tutorial that exemplifies some nice CSS border styles.
• Bounce is a new web app for giving quick feedback on a web page. It’s a great way of sharing comments on a website! Here’s an example I made earlier.
• Test your website before launch with Launchlist.
• Meaningful Mark-up: Posh and Beyond is an excellent article on semantic mark-up and the benefits for you and your clients.

Quite a diverse list I think you’ll agree…!

HTML5 links for light reading

Posted in HTML5 Links on 31 March 2010 | Comments

I have been reading a lot more about HTML5 recently and also considering whether to start using it ‘in anger’. Here are a few useful HTML5 links:

• How to use HTML5 in your client work right now is a useful post that describes which bits of HTML5 you can use (and taking account of IE-compatibility)
• The above link comes from HTML5 Doctor which is a great resources for HTML5. Includes How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2
• HTML5 Gallery is a showcase of sites that use HTML5; some nice examples featured!
• HTML5 and The Future of the Web is a good introductory article from Smashing Magazine
• WHATWG has a company home page demo in HTML5
• HTML5 Demos has some cool examples of HTML5 use

The more I read about HTML5, the more I want to use it. I plan to build my next personal site with HTML5.

jQuery links for light reading

Posted in JavaScript Links on 10 February 2010 | Comments

Some recent articles on jQuery from around the web:

• I blogged about multi-column layouts with CSS3 but the Columnizer jQuery plugin means you can create newspaper-style layouts that work in all browsers.
• jQuery pageSlide provides a way to reveal (slide in) secondary page content; an interesting approach I think
• SlideDeck is a horizontal slider that provides a way of highlighting content in hidden panels but with search engine visibility.
• jQuery MagicLine Navigation is an animated hover effect for navigation links.
• Twitter-like dynamic character count for textareas and input fields

CSS links for light reading

Posted in CSS Links on 8 January 2010 | Comments [1]

A few goodies from my CSS reading list:

• 3 Ways to Add Depth to Any Website with CSS – some subtle effects that can give your website that little extra.
• CSS Browser Selectors – a useful JavaScript method that means you can write CSS that easily targets any browser.
• Create a CSS Image Sprite Based Feature Box – a nice tutorial with a demo here.
• How To Create Simple, Stylish and Swappable Image Captions
• CSS Coding Standards – we each have our own way of writing CSS but Paul Stanton gives us his way of doing it.
• The Best CSS Newbie Articles of 2009