If you care about standards, accessibility, seo, etc… here is a very good tool to test your website with: webagogo. After singing in you can run a series of test on a given address (you need to be the owner of the site). The results worth a look.
The results includes:
I’ve got work to do if I want to be in the top 10 websites on Webagogo.
If you don’t have Smashing Magazine in your rss feed reader yet it’s about time to add it. Being one of the best web media related web magazine, they always pretty cool articles, giveaways and..free stuff. Have a look at the Freebies section to see what you can get for free. There is some pretty nice icon set, wallpaper and font.
Always useful in a toolbox!
Here is a website that create loading gif for you. You choose the skin from a list of predefined skin and press create. That’s it. Useful when you want a common loading shape. You can even give it a color or make it transparent, change the background, etc…
Always good in a toolbox: http://www.ajaxload.info/
I have been writing about mobile design before, and SimplePie in my last post so I thought this one was worth linking to.
Chris from CSS-Tricks has posted a very long and complete tutorial about making a mobile version of a website, filled automatically using RSS and SimplePie and nicely moved by jQuery.
As usual, good work Chris, interesting reading.
An easy way to display a RSS feed on your page if your are not using wordpress is SimplePie. SimplePie is an open source php class making syndication simple. Have a look at the website: simplepie.org for download and documentation.
I have stumble upon a nice article from Ajaxian, showing up Yahoo! new release of performance best practices guide. If performance is not something we always think about it is also a key in the success of a website.
Serve your user with a 200 kb home page and I bet you wont get any good traffic on it. Some of the tips given are for the experienced people only but most are very understandable. Very nice reading.
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