Category Archives: web design
How to compile ImageMagick for PHP by hand
Some time ago I was looking at how to re-size uploaded images in a way that looks good using PHP. I was impressed that when I uploaded a 4M picture to flickr it managed to re-size and compress it into a smaller version that looked correct. I knew they weren't just resizing it so I [...]
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Good article on keeping javascript maintainable
Vitamin has a good article today on the importance of maintainable javascript. 95% of what the article covers is applicable to any code. The important parts of the article cover javascript specific things like: object literals, namespaces and where to go when you want to compress your javascript to save bandwidth/make it download faster. They [...]
Interesting alternative to tagging
I found a post about an alternative approach to tagging today and thought it would be interesting if someone made a wordpress plugin that would use this idea. It seems like it might be a nice alternative to the normal site map that most sites have when there is a lot of information to drill [...]
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Capture full page screenshots with firefox
Ever wanted to capture the entire page you are viewing in firefox instead of just what is shown on your screen? Ever need to do that from a command line? Here are two extensions that let you do just that. Page Saver The first extension is called Page Saver and comes in two versions. The [...]
Some interesting and useful AJAX/Javascript code
I like seeing more and more uses of prototype. I'm not sure if the big guys will win out with their UI toolkits (Yahoo UI/GWT) or if it will always feel better to put things together by hand. Either way it is good to understand how this stuff works. This is an edit in place [...]
Search Engine Marketing and Google’s new trending tools
Now that google has anounced their new Google trends site I couldn't help but mention it. If you spend any type of money at all on SEM you need to check your keywords against this site. There are a couple of intro articles about the new service at Micro Persuasion and TechCrunch. To get a [...]
Search Engine Optimization
Recently I've been collecting links on interesting SEO topics. I figured I would dump a few of them out with quick reasons why I think they are good to read. A technical read on how search engines work in general. It focuses on google but has a lot of good general information in it. This [...]
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