Following on from my last post; i’ve been doing some spleunking into ‘responsive design’ – the latest buzz term circling the web design / development camp. I’ve stumbled across a rather insightful slideshare presentation from Brian and Stephanie Rieger; they worked on browser.nokia.com at Breaking Development conference. For that project, they invented a new way to combine client side information with device detection. It’s a really interesting approach and certainly worth assimilating!

First off; I know it’s been a looong time since I last posted an update; suffice to say i’ve had a lot of things on in my life that have kept me preoccupied… but enough of my whining; i’m here to talk about a promising new framework I stumbled across called Foundation; its from the guys at Zurb who made the lovely CSS3 buttons that I utilise a lot (with my own modifications of course! will be blogging the changes shortly).

If you’re worth your salt in the field of web development and design, then you need to check this: http://html5boilerplate.com/

Watched a webinar today from Communicator Corp, introducing their new A/B testing of emails. Very slick… Premise is essentially the same as multivariate testing of websites (a-la Google’s Website Optimiser) – you create two emails, load them into the system, it then sends to a percentage of your total subscription list, shows you which one is better received… then you can send the best performing email to the rest of your recipients.

This may seem very contrite, but the ability to test your emails on-the-fly almost guarantees an uplift in your readership!

Thanks to Rebeca at Communicator Corp; Glad to see that they are pushing this platform forward!

I’ve been wanting a way to develop a html framework that is extensible and highly redeployable for some time now. I tend to re-use a lot of my CSS and common techniques are redeployed across a number of projects. I stumbled upon Blueprint CSS yesterday and i must say i am definately impressed with it… It takes a distinct amount of technical knowledge but once the basics are learnt, it gives the developer a massive boost in productivity….

the guys over at Smashing Magazine have a post on 40 Useful Javascript Libraries which mentions a javascript library called LiveValidation.

LiveValidation is a lightweight library that equips you with set of validation functions. Besides the classic validation methods, the library has a powerful live validation feature that controls the fields as you type. Ruby on Rails developers will find it very easy to use because the naming conventions and parameters are very similar. It is a stand-alone library but has a Prototype version, too.

Out of all the js libraries available, I have found this one to be most useful… it is highly extensible, lightweight, and is also is widely supported… Check it out today!