Coding Horror: So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) If you want email your code sends to actually arrive in someone’s AOL mailbox, to the dulcet tones of “You’ve Got Mail!”, there are a few things you must do first. And most of them are only peripherally related to writing code.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods , hosted by the impressive Swiss Visual Literacy project, is the most comprehensive visualization taxonomy I have seen. It divides visualisations into… Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, and Compound Visualizations. Each of these is then classified as a… process or structure visualization, … and further subdivided into whether they show… detail, overview, or detail and overview, … and whether they support...
Instagram and Optimizing Favicons | Zoompf “Lesson #1: Don’t forget your favicon.” But optimizing your website’s favicon goes beyond just making sure you don’t forget it. Below are 5 recommendations for optimizing your favicon, plus two bonus tips, to optimize your website’s favicon. Make sure it exists. Make sure it is compatible. Make sure it is cacheable. Make sure it is the right size. Make sure to serve it using compression....
(via A VC: The Management Team – Guest Post From Joel Spolsky )
Front-end Code Standards & Best Practices | Isobar North America This document contains guidelines for web applications built by the Creative Technology (front end engineering) practice of Isobar US. (…) This document’s primary motivation is two- fold: 1) code consistency and 2) best practices.
HTML5 Boilerplate – A rock-solid default template for HTML5 awesome. HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than three years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on....
The Golden Ratio applied to the iCloud logo. Geometrically-set curves generates the balanced shape. Applying certain law to random shapes brings the balanced design in whole. (via The law of beauty hidden behind the iCloud icon. )
(via Psychology of color for designers – Design Leadership blog ) Color plays a major role in our visual perception as it influences our reactions about world around us. A fundamental grasp of color perception and psychology in graph and web design is therefore critical in ore to create palettes that evoke the appropriate audience reactions.