I get to wear a lot of hats at idfive; everyone here does. One of my favorites is pseudo-IT-guy… or at least it was until we decided to upgrade the office from Snow Leopard to Lion to take advantage of the automatic document versioning. I enlisted the help of our trusty social media guru, Aaron, [...]
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PHP errors for designers (the appendix)
One of the hardest things for me to learn is to read error messages and translate them into something meaningful that leads me to a solution. I was excited to read Rachel Andrew’s “A Guide to PHP Error Messages for Designers,” but was a little surprised that some of the most basic ones were left [...]
To jQuery or not to jQuery…
As we look more towards responsive design as a solution to mobile websites one issue keeps coming up: page bloat. The recent prevalence of broadband has meant that designers and developers don’t have to think about every kilobyte they attach to a page. Oversized background images and feature-laden javascript libraries/plugins get thrown into some sites without a [...]
Are you ready for Tattoogle-adsense?
Last weekend we spent quite a while in the car stuck in DC traffic. NPR was running some old stories on gaming, which is one of my favorite pastimes (outside of making websites, of course.) and they quoted several minutes of Jesse Schell’s “Design Outside the Box” presentation from DICE 2010. This is one of those presentations [...]
Conditionally requiring fields
I hate forms. They’re often ill-considered (check out Bill’s latest post on that) and when improperly handled can be a security risk. To mitigate the security risk developers turn to validation to make sure the information users enter is not malicious. It seems like recently validation has not just been for security, but also to [...]