This link is an oldie but a goodie. It has helped me remember to KISS countless times and to focus on the needs of users when designing sites. Check it out.
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design [37 Signals]
This link is an oldie but a goodie. It has helped me remember to KISS countless times and to focus on the needs of users when designing sites. Check it out.
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design [37 Signals]
For the first time since the second time I dropped out of college, I feel compelled to dedicate large amounts of time to learning new things. 2007 seems to be the year that everything new comes out (well, actually most of it came out last year but this is the year we start to care). Is this Web 2.5? or maybe just a patch – Web 2.0.1? or maybe it’s something else less cheezy than either, just an interesting time for technology. Whatever it is, if they actually taught this stuff at a university, I would quit my job and become a student again.
Here’s a list of some of the new platforms, technologies, and languages I’m interested in learning about right now. I would love to receive comments on these if you’ve got anything to share or if you see something I may have missed.
The hot topic of Flash vs. Ajax seems to come up a lot lately. After the word became a meme, there was a surge where my freelance clients were asking for Ajax work. I could have dropped what I was doing to learn it so I could ride on the bandwagon, but when I looked closer, I saw all the quirks involved in doing even a simple task in a not-quite-object-oriented language which is slightly different for each browser. So I said “screw it” and focused on Flash instead (and incidentally, I haven’t had any trouble finding Flash work since then).
So, in the spirit of friendly competition, here’s a little article on Ajax which shares some of my own skepticism.