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Short Head

Evan Mullins — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:27:45 +0000

Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to segment the audience and make sure you've got each audience covered and all their main needs. Then showcase the content that they need.

Every websites could benefit from this process. Every new site or redesign should start with this research and strategy. It does take time and effort, but it has the biggest return on investment in making an effective website. I still think redesigns are still needed, but slapping a new design on a bad architecture and structure benefits no one, especially the user.

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Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead | Smashing UX Design
Let’s look at why redesigns happen, and some straightforward and inexpensive ways we might avoid them.

Img Set?

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:13:03 +0000

Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working group wants the community to be involved and then ignores it in favor of "their own" biased unproven/untested ideas.

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A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
The goal of a “responsive images” solution is to deliver images optimized for the end user's context, rather than serving the largest potentially necessary image to everyone. Unfortunately, this h…

Triudo

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:39:41 +0000

A mesmerizing animated triangle-ish shape form.

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Git – the paradigm shift

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:37:43 +0000

A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version control as you thought it and learn the Git way.

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Zeh Fernando » Blog Archive » How I learned to stop worrying and love Git
Git. The trendy source control management system. Like many other of my peers, I've been using GitHub for a while (for personal projects, in my case). For the longest time, however, I felt like th…

Tweening Lib comes to Javascript!

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:17:05 +0000

I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too.

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» GreenSock tweening comes to JavaScript
Great news for those who are looking to get into JS animation. GreenSock, the creator of excellent libraries like TweenLite and TweenMax, has just released their new animation platform and it includes…

Responsive CSS Tricks

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:14:14 +0000

Here are a few useful css tricks to remember when building responsive design sites from web designer wall

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5 Useful CSS Tricks for Responsive Design
Making the design to be responsive is very easy as shown in my Responsive Design in 3 Steps tutorial, but maintaining the elements to look aesthetically balanced on all breakpoint layouts is an art. T…

Picture element of srcset attribute?

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:06:41 +0000

Bruce details the reasons and story behind the srcset attribute which is now introduced as an alternative to the picture element. Some aspects of the attribute are nice (like the fact that it's an attribute and not a new element, so it's creating up new elements with for problems. It's adapting currently used elements to be more future-friendly), but some aspects are weird – like the totally foreign syntax (where did that come from?). There is also some worry that the elements that are proposed and introduced by the community get nowhere, but then a when someone at apple makes a proposal it gets new immediate support from the group. Anyways, either way I think one of these solutions (or a variant) should help alleviate much of the pain behind responsive images. At least the discussion is happening, no?

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HTML5 adaptive images: end of round one | HTML5 Doctor
Those web authors in the W3C Resposive Images Community Group soldiered on in frustration that they were they being ignored because the problem itself wasn't seen as a problem. Then this week, Edw…

SVG Preloader with Raphael JS

Evan Mullins — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:54:14 +0000

Here's a very creative use of using a newly available technology. Using svg graphics which are very lightweight, for a website preloader. I like the animation used as well.

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Make a stylish preloader with SVG | Tutorial | .net magazine
Many sites neglect users with slow connections. Ian Culshaw explains how to use SVG library Raphaël to create a preloader that’ll hold the users' attention while pages load

CSS3 Button/Icon set

Evan Mullins — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:20:44 +0000

I've been secretly hoping to see a few of these pop up once the whole icon font idea spread through the nets. I really like this idea and it's a very nice implementation too! I only see some quality issues on a couple of the icons (such as youtube), but it's awesome and I hope to see it in use for the sake of consistency!

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Zocial Button Set: 72 CSS3 Buttons
The idea behind this project was to produce a consistent set of buttons that could be used for the range of social actions frequently taken in Web applications. These actions are often important goals for users, such as connecting third-party accounts or sharing content to third-party platforms, so their appearance has to be attractive and clear.
The standard buttons provided by third parties (such as Facebook, Twitter and SoundCloud) vary in size, style and interactivity. A consistent button…

Abstract visuals from satellites amaze me

Evan Mullins — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:21:36 +0000

Abstract visuals from satellites amaze me

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Crop Circles in the Desert : Image of the Day
Over the course of 25 years, farms have sprouted in the Arabian Desert, fueled by deep and old groundwater.