Loud Dog Links

April 7, 2009

• A List Apart: Articles: Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2008
  An interesting analysis of survey data on what others in the field of web design are doing since last year, how they are feeling about their jobs, how they stay current, etc.
  by: Jodi Wing | tags: reference, research, survey, web, webdesign

March 5, 2009

• Twitter = YouTube. - John Battelle's Searchblog
  Is Twitter ripe for a Google takeover?
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: business, google, marketing, news, search, social, twitter, web, YouTube

February 11, 2009

• 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Great article about the challenges of maintaining corporate websites.
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: business, corporate, design, development, howto, louddog, marketing, smashingmagazine, strategy, usability, web, webdesign

January 9, 2009

• Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3 | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  A nice little article describing some of the sophisticated techniques/capabilities of CSS3 already being used on bleeding edge websites.
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: code, css, css3, design, development, inspiration, style, Web, webdesign, webdev

December 22, 2008

• Rands In Repose: A Signature Cadence
  Great little article about the cadence and tone of authenticity that makes WEb 2.0 apps like flickr so enjoyable to use.
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: authenticity, blog, cadence, community, culture, development, flickr, identity, interaction, messaging, rands, tone, web, web2.0, writing

November 18, 2008

• JS-909
  An experimental sound machine written entirely in javascript. No libraries and no flash. Pretty nifty.
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: audio, code, design, drums, fun, javascript, machine, music, sequencer, Sound, synth, visualization, web

July 7, 2008

• Code Style: CSS font sampler and survey of the most common fonts for CSS font-family properties
  A great resource for designers and developers alike!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: CSS, design, fonts, typography, Web, webdesign

June 25, 2008

• The 10 Commandments of Web Design
  Nice to see this from a mainstream biz mag like Business Week.
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: design, dev, Web, webdesign

June 4, 2008

• wmd - The Wysiwym Markdown Editor
  Cool looking way to simply add Markdown formatting to your web page/app
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: AJAX, dev, development, free, javascript, Markdown, text, Web, webdesign

May 15, 2008

• Google Doctype - Google Code
  A reference library by and for web developers. Groovy!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: code, css, design, dev, development, Web, webdesign, xhtml

May 14, 2008

• TimeTube
  Wow! This is YouTube re-imagined and then some!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: architecture, mashup, timeline, UI, Web, wow!, YouTube

April 1, 2008

• JonDesign's (Javascript) SmoothGallery 2.0
  An accessible, customizable, free slideshow solution with a bonus plug-in for flickr. Yet another reason to not use Flash.... yay!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: code, css, design, dev, flickr, free, gallery, javascript, mootools, photos, slideshow, usability, Web, webdesign

March 4, 2008

• StringFoo :: Web Development Resources" Blog Archive
  How to set up a full local web dev environment on OSX Leopard using MAMP. Pretty cool!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: Apache, dev, Leopard, louddog, MacOSX, MAMP, MySQL, OSX, PHP, web, webdesign

January 30, 2008

• Shadowbox.js Media Viewer
  Another cool looking javascript pop-in widget, super robust and not limited to any framework... yipee!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: awesomeness, development, javascript, web, widget

January 16, 2008

• Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer
  Another kick ass javascript library. Eat yer heart out AIR and Silverlight!
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: AJAX, awesomeness, javascript, web

May 15, 2007

• A nice compilation of some useful web development techniques
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: browser, code, css, development, web, xhtml

March 2, 2007

• Apache Friends - XAMPP for Mac OSX
  a nice, straightforward way to get Apache 2, PHP4x-5x and MySQL up and running painlessly as a local development (not for production!) environment for MacOSX
  by: Martin Ferrini | tags: Apache, development, Mac, MySQL, OSX, PHP, web