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Beyond the 960 framework
Over the past few years, the "web standards" approach to design has seen the 960 framework come to be the predominant grid system layout. As a brief overview, this is a framework based on a width of 960 pixels, containing a series of columns (12, 16, and 24, each with varying gutter widths).
Singing the Praises of Opera
When moving away from Firefox, I became intrigued by the dark, glossy interface of Opera. I gave it a chance, and what I found really impressed me: it's a slick combination of features and performance.
IE6 Market Share and Support
Internet Explorer 6 has long been considered the bane of many a Web Developer - now almost 10 years old, for much of its life it has dominated the market place. Unfortunately, at the time of its creation implementing interoperable cross-browser standards was of significantly smaller concern than it is now - following W3C implementation standards only truly became a major concern for browser makers several years later, with the increasing complexities involved in building and maintaining websites, and the release of competing browsers.
With IE6's market share becoming increasingly negligible, TJS is reducing its support for the browser. Our rationale is explained below.
Getting your face into social media
With the so called "Web 2.0" craze in its maturity, social media must be considered a serious part of any company's marketing strategy.
Why Xmarks the spot
If you use the internet as much as I do, no doubt you'll have hundreds of online resources and toolkits to make your life a little easier. Whilst I could wax lyrical all day about the merits of saving useful bookmarks and building up a toolkit, my focus for today is on the one piece of stand out technology to bring all this seamlessly together over my various browsers and computers, namely Xmarks, formerly foxmarks.
5 useful (PHP) tricks and functions you may not know
I've been programming for a good few years now and I’m still discovering new functions and coding tricks to make my life easier. I’m going to share an assorted collection of some of my favourite revelations - read on to see if there’s any you’re not familiar with.
Wire-framing: worth the investment
At TJS we have long relied upon a detailed specification and design mock-ups to ensure we meet our clients expectations. However, a specification although useful, only provides a functional overview and the mock-ups rarely cover the entire site.
Twitter 'tweets' now appearing in Google Search Results Pages
After months of talks between Google and Twitter, 'Tweets' are now starting to appear live in Google search results pages. We've tried a number of high level searches to discover a discrete area containing a live feed of updating 'Tweets' and look at the potential benefit to businesses.
TJS start a Google 'Wave'
TJS have been taking advantage of their preview invites to sample the potential of Google Wave. With invitations as rare as hen's teeth, TJS staff have been 'Waving' with each other and a few other friends / contacts also lucky enough to test out the concept. Here's what we've discovered so far:
Extended Validation Secure Certificates
The security of data in transmission between the user and the website is only part of an SSL certificate's purpose. Equally important is the confidence that you really are dealing with who you think you are.