The Dev Scene

10 Tips For Designing Mobile Websites

Roger Stringer — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:40:30 +0000

10 tips for web designers in 2010 – the year of the mobile.

Create a Twitter Analytics Dashboard with YQL and PHP

Roger Stringer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:59:17 +0000

There are many reasons to monitor the performance of multiple Twitter accounts. If you maintain more than one site or blog, chances are you have multiple Twitter accounts that correspond to each contributing author, site, or product. Perhaps you want to keep tabs on how your account stacks up against your competitors.

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25 Completely Free Fonts Perfect For @font-face

Roger Stringer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:58:45 +0000

The recent web design trend of not using web safe fonts for headlines and titles has opened up a whole new resource category for designers: The search for the perfect headline grabbing font.

In this post we have collected 25 of the best completely FREE headline fonts that could be easily used with @fontface property and all packaged with a web-font license.

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Easy Custom Web Typography with Google Fonts API

Roger Stringer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:57:13 +0000

The world of web typography is advancing with leaps and bounds. Already we have the options of SiFR, Cufon, Typekit, @font-face and now, Google has introduced their own custom font service under the Google Font API. Let’s take a look at what the Google Font API is and how you can use it in your own web designs.

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How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes

Roger Stringer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:56:22 +0000

Offering your content or logic as a service on the web is a great idea. For starters it allows you to build numerous front-ends for your own information without having to access the databases all the time (and thus making scaling your system much easier). The even more practical upshot is that you allow people on the web to play with your information and build things you never even dreamed of doing. A lot of companies understand that this “crowd-sourced innovation” is a freebie that is too good to miss which is why there are so many great APIs around.

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Making a Slick MobileApp Website with jQuery & CSS

Roger Stringer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:55:21 +0000

This time we are making a complete jQuery & CSS website for a fictional mobile application. It is going to feature semantic markup and a progressively enhanced slideshow effect.

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Style Your Site According to the Weather with jQuery

Roger Stringer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:54:29 +0000

By pulling in feed from the Yahoo API with jQuery, you can style your website according to the Weather! Find out how by following this step by step guide. We’ll start by creating four backgrounds for sun, rain, snow and cloudy, then use a clever jQuery script to pull in the forecast. To finish things off, we’ll even create a cool manual override, allowing users to switch through the various themes themselves.

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Creating Content For Web: Yahoo! Style Guide

Roger Stringer — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:54:59 +0000

Today, mostly, we all write, edit and/or create content for web. Whether it is a blog, a web project or the stuff we share in social networks.

As the variables and consumers of web are pretty different than the print, Yahoo has created a guide named Yahoo! Style Guide that shares valuable articles and tips.

There is actually a book behind this online resource where many of the chapters are shared online within categories like writing, editing, words and more.

To give a better idea about what the guide offers, here are some of the content provided:

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Create A Professional Portfolio Using WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types

Roger Stringer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:59:52 +0000

The release of WordPress 3.0 is imminent and one of the most exciting new features is that of custom post types. This tutorial shows you how to build a portfolio on your website using this new functionality.

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Build a MailChimp Content Feature with jQuery

Roger Stringer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:58:40 +0000

I was scouring the internet for inspiration the other day and revisiting some interesting sites and noticed that MailChimp had changed their homepage integrating a slick full page slider. After a little investigation I noticed that they were using the jQuery Cycle plugin which allows you to rotate, paginate or cycle a set of images. I’ve been looking for a full sized slider for a while now and was about to write a tutorial on building a plugin that does the same job.

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