I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]
Is website speed critical to your business?
Consider: A study has shown that increasing response times by 500ms for Google reduced traffic by 20%. Response time increases of 100ms on Amazon decreased sales by 1%1! These are some pretty amazing figures.
The reason is probably that [...]
It’s been just about 5 months since we re-launched the Dayspring website with a fresh design and a custom content management system. We’ve gotten quite a few positive comments on the site’s clean, precise look.
But how has the site performed? Sure it’s a laudable goal to make the Web more beautiful, but, [...]
Janet recently found a site that is using non-standard fonts for most of their text. As we explored the site to figure out how they were doing this, we found Cufon. Cufon allows for text replacement similar to sIFR, but without the use of Flash. This opens up design possibilities using more fonts without making [...]
At Google I/O (Google’s developer conference), Steve Souders (the creator of YSlow) presented a few ideas for making websites even faster.
When it comes to optimizing a website for speed and user experience, there’s only so much you can do from the backend. The most room for performance improvement is in client-side frontend. Anywhere between 80 [...]
Microsoft has thoughtfully allowed site owners to automatically tell IE8 browsers to render in “compatibility mode”. They stress that this is supposed to be a temporary solution, but it’s really easy. Two routes:
After frequently running into what this non-designer guy describes as that sorta round-y, bubble gum, mac-y font, I started to wonder if there was a pattern and some explanation.
Firebugging revealed what every mac user could have told me, that it was Lucida Grande. Old web posts said this was dangerous as Lucida didn’t come standard [...]
The big migration to the new First Republic design went live and they are very happy. One opinion from a staffperson (not on the client team):
Just want you to know that I was on it today and it looks soooo much better. Much easier to read. 
Oftentimes during the design phase of a project, we’ll get the design concepts looking just right in Photoshop and Illustrator. Then you get to the “production” phase—that is, actually coding HTML and CSS to match the concepts. At this phase, some ask why is it that production HTML cannot look pixel identical to a design [...]
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