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Website Optimization Best Practices
Monday, June 1st, 2009 by stevie
Many new projects grow from a small base to a full blown app in time. Besides the pride of the accomplishments the developer now has to care about behind-the-scenes-stuff like page load, caching and effective webdesign to keep or improve the current speed when using the project.
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AIR on Linux: Adobe wants beta testers
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 by stevie
Adobe’s AIR is plattform intented to distribute Flash based applications as desktop programs.
Now Adobe’s looking for developers using linux to test a new release and report bugs and other problems with the new package. To check if you’re a fit for this job Adobe has outlined a few key questions you have to check before [...] -
PostgreSQL.org Website Design Contest
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 by stevie
Just a quick tip for all you designers out there:
The team of PostgreSQL wants a redesign of their homepage and started a contest to find the new look. If you are interested to win the 2000$-prize you should visit the page and get involved.
Good luck!
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Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design
Friday, April 17th, 2009 by stevie
Although this blog tends to be more a developer’s than a designer’s blog most of us will have to deal with GUI-design at some point.
So these tips might become in handy if you have to design your next webapp or if you have to make another site more attractive for users (i.e. redesign/relaunch).
Enjoy.
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Web browser capabilities revisited
Monday, February 16th, 2009 by stevie
As a web developer you always have to keep in mind that what looks great on your box not always looks that good on your client’s or on some random visitor’s screen. This is mostly because of the different browser engines and versions.
With this in mind you might tend to avoid any newer techniques, features [...]