Monthly Archives: August 2008

Are Your Visitors Suffering From Widget Blindness?

Photo by YanivG.
Widgets are excellent for adding unique functionality to a web site. However, as the we becomes more “widgetized”, it’s starting to add strain on the web browsing experience for our users. The more widgets we add to our web pages, the worse it makes the web.
Widget Blindness
Banner blindness was discovered in the late [...]

23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac

Every web developer has their own favorite platform to create in. Some prefer Linux, while other prefer Windows or Mac. One thing is for certain though: each platform has a passionate rabid community behind it. Those web developers who prefer the Mac are no different, and for good reason:
The Mac boasts some excellent software for [...]

15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times

Photo by paulwoolrich.
While more and more people are using faster Internet connections, there seems to be less emphasis by web developers on optimizing pages for faster load times. We’re seeing more and more widgets and javascript-heavy pages that take a long time to load, even on fast Internet connections. It’s a breath of fresh [...]