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Posted February 28, 2009

The business case for web standards | Main / Arguments

This is a collection of several arguments for the use of web standards to be cross-linked to the different Audience sections. Please add new arguments as a linked heading with a short description. Please consider the audience when you formulate new arguments. We are all very much in favour of web standards here and there is no need for "webstandards rock!" entries.

(tags: development business inspiration css webdesign web webstandards standards wiki arguments)
cufón – fonts for the people

Cufon è un progetto per molti versi simile a quel typeface.js già segnalato qui sul blog.
Simile intanto per lo scopo: è un ‘alternativa a sIFR perché consente di rimpiazzare il carattere di specifici elementi della pagina con qualunque font (attenzione alle licenze d’uso!) senza ricorrere a Flash.
Simile per la tecnologia su cui si basa, una combinazione di canvas, VML e Javascript.
Simili, per certi versi, anche alcuni dei difetti. A partire dall’impossibilità di selezionare il testo.

(tags: tools javascript webdesign design typography fonts font sifr)

Posted February 27, 2009

Posted February 26, 2009

Google Maps JavaScript API Example: Editable Polylines

(tags: demo polygons polyline maps api google gmap example gmaps howto javascript tutorial googlemap)
Google Maps – Server side clustering

(tags: google maps api googlemaps book gmaps google-maps)
Free and simple CMS » CushyCMS

Finally, a free and truly simple CMS
Web Designers:
* Allow clients to safely edit content
* No software to install, no programming required
* Takes just a few minutes to setup
* Produces standards compliant, search engine friendly content
* Define exactly which parts of the page can be changed
Content Editors:
* Super. Easy. To. Use.

(tags: free tools webdesign web2.0 editor cms design content)
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Featured Content Glider

This script lets you painlessly showcase new or featured contents on your page, by turning ordinary pieces of HTML content into an interactive, "glide in" slideshow. For the ultimate in the ability to customize its look, the pagination links are also ordinary links that you define on the page, but with special CSS class names inserted when it should perform a certain task (ie: "toc" class if it's a pagination link).

(tags: jquery javascript ajax webdesign slideshow drupal menu dhtml slider glider)

Posted February 24, 2009

Internal Memos: 'Breathtaking' Document Reveals Pepsi's Logo is Pinnacle of Entire Universe

Last year Pepsi spent several hundred million dollars on a new logo. Everyone figured they had just ripped off the Obama logo. But now an internal document from the branding company has surfaced: Breathtaking bullshit.

(tags: pepsi branding strategy bullshit america capitalism crap)

Posted February 23, 2009

DARWIN AWARDS ITALIA

In onore di Charles Darwin, il padre dell'evoluzione. I Darwin Awards commemorano coloro che migliorano il nostro Patrimonio Genetico sottraendosi da esso definitivamente.

(tags: fun humour interesting inspiration)
Poste Italiane – Calcola il costo delle spedizioni

Calcola il costo delle spedizioni. Per spedire in modo veloce, facile ed economico in Italia e nel mondo.

(tags: costi poste utilities utility ecommerce service)

Posted February 22, 2009

Posted February 21, 2009

Recreating the button | stopdesign

Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls).

(tags: css webdesign web google design ui html interface buttons button)
http://gestpaycryptphp.sourceforge.net/

GestPayCrypt-PHP è l'implementazione open source (licenza LGPL) in PHP delle classi GestPayCrypt e GestPayCryptHS che Bancasella distribuisce in Java per permettere l'interfacciamento al sistema di pagamento online GestPay. Questa reimplementazione in PHP mantiene la stessa interfaccia pubblica di quella originale, permettendo, quindi, di fare a meno di installare l'ambiente di esecuzione java sul server web, ed evitare di configurare il supporto java in PHP, cosa non sempre possibile, soprattutto in situazioni di hosting.

(tags: bancasella gestpay webzone programming php webdev development software tools)

Posted February 20, 2009

Posted February 19, 2009

Posted February 18, 2009