Quarkbase - Everything about a Website
A pretty useful tool for getting some quick data about a website, from social popularity on the usual social sites to spotlight "In the blogs" covering blog mentions of a site down to its nameservers...
View ArticlejQuery Rich Text Editor
We use jQuery for most things in our CMS but for the moment use Cameron Adams' widgEditor as a lightweight RTE. Here we have a fork off of Batiste Bieler's jQuery Lightweight Rich Text Editor that...
View Article100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources
A fantastic post covering heaps of tools and articles focused on helping you get the most from the ads on your site or network. If you are not familiar with the links in this article, put some time...
View ArticleEvolution of a Header
Garrett Dimon wrote up some details about the evolution of the header area on a couple of screens for his webapp Sifter. It provides a very nice overview of the stages of development (with sketches...
View ArticleSphinx - free open-source SQL full-text search engine
This is being bookmarked for future reference. From the website: Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other...
View ArticleCustom events in jQuery open doors to complex behaviors
Rebecca Murphey provides a look at using custom events in jQuery. While she doesn't really get to the why until the end of the article, the benefits are certainly something worth having in your code:...
View ArticleSlickMap CSS
Here's a cool implementation of CSS for turning hierarchical lists into easier to understand site maps. The general idea of SlickMap CSS is to streamline the web design process by automating the...
View ArticleHow The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines
Having a good bit of traffic allows The Huffington Post to a/b test article headlines for 5 minutes in order to pick the winner with the most click-thrus. We have done this on client sites by testing...
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