Cameron Moll is one of the world’s leading web designers. He aims to teach us how to develop websites for the so so-called “standards era†for mobile devices. There are 104 pages of practical advice, tips, & examples. The book costs $19 which I think it is really worth it. PDF book will be available for download shortly after payment is made.
You can download the preview sample (PDF, 4.2 MB) complete with cover artwork, table of contents, and several sample pages.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://mobilewebbook.com/bucket/MobileWebDesign_Preview.pdf
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I have just received an email from Peter Alguacil of Pingdom.com. They are currently promoting Firefox by offering a whole full free year of Pingdom’s uptime monitoring service to anyone signing up using Firefox. At $119.40 each (normal price) and a limit of 1,000 accounts they are potentially giving away accounts worth almost $120,000. The followings are wat you get from your FREE account.
- Monitor uptime and response time of 5 websites, servers or services
- 20 free SMS alerts
- Unlimited email alerts
- 1-minute monitoring resolution at no extra cost
- Monitoring from multiple locations around the world.
- Uptime and response time statistics
To any webmaster this should be quite a treat, since it’s a full professional service for a whole year for free. I cannot wait to make this post. Time is running out. HURRY UP! The offer is valid until Saturday !
I have got one for WebAppers already! Remember to register with Firefox Browser!
Register Now
Requirements: Register with Firefox Browser
Sign Up Now: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=174
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If you ever intend to develop a web application, I believe you have already had the idea what and how the application is. If this is not the case, I do not think meditations at home will help you to get amazing ideas. A web application will be constructive and productive only if they are innovative or tailor-made to demands. I prefer looking around to feel the trend and sense people’s need. There is also plenty of information at the internet. Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious is such a web site of revealing the trend of needs that I shall not miss.
Inspiration and Design
When the type of application you decided to develop has been finalized, the user interface and the homepage, i.e. the very first thing that users perceive, is the determinant factor whether your application will be successful or not. A good design of the homepage/user interface may attract and so retains users while a bad one shall repulse users forever. Inspiration may flash through your mind. Yet, a look at the high standard CSS Galleries, e.g. CSS Remix and CSS Mania will certainly provides you with much inspiration. You can also enjoy top quality web applications sites like Webware and SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards and see how an intuitive, elegant and yet powerful web applications may be.
Choosing a Framework
Now that the design and features of your web application are ready, you then choose the best or your most familiar programming language to begin with. No matter what programming language you are going to use, I strongly suggest choose one with “frameworkâ€. Read the rest of this entry »
Getting Real is the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals — a developer of web-based software used by over 1 million people and businesses in 70 countries. 37signals used the unconventional Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no funding, no debt, and only 7 people.
Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers — will find value, fresh perspectives, and inspiration in this practical book. At under 200 pages it’s quick reading too. Makes a great airplane book. The complete book with 16 chapters and 91 essays is now Completely free to read online.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
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SlickSpeed CSS Selectors Test tests the CSS selectors in every browser, whether or not the browser included xpath. It is written in simple PHP and plain JavaScript. No framework is used in the suite JavaScript file, as the point of it is to test frameworks against each other. This avoids favoritism. Also, each framework runs in its own iframe, so no prototyping conflicts can happen. So that we can have a rough idea of the speed of running the CSS selectors.
Link: http://mootools.net/slickspeed/
Census RIA Data Loading Benchmarks is a Flex application to demostrate various methods of loading data in RIAs and see how these methods impact performance, bandwidth and client momery usage. Census renders a large chunk of data using Ajax ( HTML, SOAP, XML and JSON ), Dojo, Flex ( SOAP to AS and E4X, XML to AS and E4X, AMF3 and Paged). We can see the Server Exec Time, Transfer Time, Parse Time and Render Time easily.
Link: http://www.jamesward.org/census/
Building a web application can be a lot of fun. However, there is a problem if we are having a web app with users in more languages than just English. Where do you start with internationalisation? Steve Ellis published a great article about How To Give Your Web Application an International Appeal which breaks into two parts. In Part I Steve Ellis covered the basics of internationalisation. In Part II he takes us around the world with several real life examples, like tricky plurals, dynamic data, localising images, video and audio, and more.
Original Article: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/give-your-web-app-international…
Particletree has written a detailed report – Web App Autopsy about 4 very different web application companies that are at varying stages of their life cycle. In addition to age and size, these companies vary in their business models, programming languages and views on approaching the web as a platform. Also They are sharing code line counts, business processes, conversion rates, support requests revenues per customer. This information can help us identify some trends about web application.
Original Article: http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/
