Loud Dog Links

March 1, 2010

• Tips and Tricks for developing Mobile Widgets (Carsonified)
  Interesting post on things to look out for when developing web apps for mobile devices (especially iPhone). Of specific interest: HTML5.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: mobile, webdevelopment

February 27, 2010

• iPhone web app performance (Niall Kennedy)
  I was interested in why Safari on my iPhone wasn't caching pages, so I looked it up. Apparently it just doesn't cache pages after you close it, and it doesn't cache anything over 25KB, pretty small these days. Article has a bunch more information on typical download speeds, etc.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: development, iphone, mobile, webdevelopment

February 3, 2010

• Why HTML5 Isn't Going to Save the Internet (Gizmodo)
  Every once in a while, Gawker comes out with an awesomely detailed article. This is one on HTML5, video, and why Flash isn't going away. While some platforms stop supporting Flash (iPhone), and some don't support HTML5 (Internet Explorer), we'll have to start browser testing all over again to serve up the right content.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: development, webdevelopment

December 16, 2009

• Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3 (Smashing Magazine)
  Another interesting look at design techniques that are now easy to do with CSS3. HTML5 and CSS3 are going to allow really rich, interesting interfaces, and websites that don't have them are going to suffer by comparison. Of course, we need to remember that IE and other browsers may not support everything.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: webdesign, webdevelopment
• SEO Best Practices When Moving a Web Site (ClickZ)
  Good article covering what to do when moving a website from one domain to another. I feel like we've covered this before, but this is a good read regardless.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: seo, webDevelopment, websiteRedesign

September 10, 2009

• Embeddable Google Document Viewer
  Wow, this is awesome. View a PDF in any browser.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: coolStuff, webdesign, webdevelopment

August 8, 2009

• How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content (Smashing Magazine)
  A few interesting best practices for optimizing load times. Most of the techniques covered are fairly standard, but more importantly, it has a bunch of reference links at the bottom.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: webdevelopment

July 6, 2009

• The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (bitquabit)
  AWESOME post on the "spit and polish" required to build a good web app. I've been wanting to write a blog post like this for years (it's called, "why good stuff is expensive and not cheap"), and this is just sweet.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: webapps, webdesign, webdevelopment

May 19, 2009

• The Ugly Truth About the Web (Linux Magazine)
  Using Cufón to embed nice fonts in your website.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: fonts, webdesign, webdevelopment

May 15, 2009

• More SideJacking (Errata Security)
  Sidejacking is a technique for stealing a website visitor's session information.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: security, webdevelopment

May 4, 2009

• A simple categorization of client-side web application frameworks (lisp service)
  Interesting categorization
  by: Josh Orum | tags: javascript, webdevelopment

April 21, 2009

• Fluid Images (Unstoppable Robot Ninja)
  Sweet technique for creating images that adjust to page width.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, webdesign, webdevelopment

April 12, 2009

• Save the Internet with rev="canonical" (Chris Shiflett)
  Chris argues that websites should use internal URL shortening instead of third-party solutions (tinyurl, etc). This makes sense - we're already doing it for a few of our clients (though not using his method, which isn't ideal). The hotness is found in the addition of a "rev" tag that tells various social networks to replace long links with the new short link.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: seo, webdevelopment

March 24, 2009

• Microformats for business owners (Clagnut.com)
  Decent overview of Microformats and what they are used for.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, webdevelopment

February 18, 2009

• Understanding the New Canonical Link Element (ClickZ)
  Great overview of the new canonical link element, what it's for, and how to use it.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: development, seo, webdevelopment

November 4, 2008

• Conditional classnames (paulhammond.org)
  Oh, this is clever. Instead of using different stylesheets, use conditionals to load different classes in the HTML. It may not be a very maintainable solution, but it's certainly clever.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: css, webdevelopment
• Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials (Noupe)
  Yet another set of Ajax patterns
  by: Josh Orum | tags: patterns, webDesign, webdevelopment

October 7, 2008

• 12 Tools To Decrease Website Load Times (Daily Artisan)
  Making your website fast is key to online success, especially if you have an international customer base, or visitors that frequently access your site while on the road.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: scaling, tools, webdevelopment

September 17, 2008

• 20 Free Page Analysis Tools (DesignM.ag)
  A variety of tools - some will analyze one specific aspect of a page and others will give an overall grade to the page as a whole. Most of them will help you with your SEO efforts.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: seo, webDesign, webdevelopment