Modpoll Gets a Few Updates :
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Modscape Launches Goodpeopleguide.com :
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Modscape Launches Modpoll.com :
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Modscape Launches Sagebud.com :
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6 Predictions for the Future of the Internet
I’d be very happy if the only thing to come true was IE6 dying a quick death. Bonus points if Google Voice gets number portability set up (in the near future).
6 Predictions for the Future of the Internet: “
Last September the Internet turned 40. I think it’s safe to say that no technology has evolved so much in so little time. Even in the past fifteen years or so, it has completely reinvented itself; arguably several times. Now we not only shop, bank, work and meet people online; but we share what we are doing at any given moment (e.g. Twitter), and even keep statistics on daily minutia. We read, listen and watch everything. We Digg, rate, share and favorite content daily.
So what’s next?
Really nice charting API
Title says it all. Via Ajaxian:
Highcharts: Really nice charting API
We all want better and better charting libraries. Dojo has some good stuff, Protovis is a good option, and there are many many more (put your favourite below!).
The latest guy in the ring is Highcharts uses either jQuery or MooTools for some common JavaScript tasks. In addition, Internet Explorer needs ExCanvas which emulates the Canvas element.
10 Great Wordpress Tutorials
Designm.ag has a great post that links to 10 great WordPress tutorials. I’ve been working on a big WordPress project at my day job, this site runs on WordPress and so does my personal site. It’s a really great platform for publishing content and extremely flexible, handling simple blogs to more extensive news sites. Highly recommend it to anyone looking at options for any kind of web hosting.
10 Tutorials to Take Your WordPress Development Skills to the Next Level
As the community of WordPress designers and developers continues to grow, and as new versions of WordPress are released, there are more opportunities to learn different techniques and tricks that you can apply in your own work. In these 10 tutorials you will find strategies that should prove to be very useful in your own theme development.
Free Stock Photos
Six Revisions has a great list of the “15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online”. I’ve personally used a bunch of these sites including NASA’s Image Galleries, which are fun to just browse, as well as stock.xchng, MorgueFile and Creative Common’s image search. Your results will vary. If you’re not having any luck with any of these sites I highly recommend dropping a buck on something over at istockphoto.com.
15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online: “
I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos.
Zen Coding: Generating HTML from selectors
Wow, this is awesome. I’d love to see a BBEdit plugin for this.
Zen Coding: Generating HTML from selectors
Normally we use CSS selectors to find and tear apart HTML. Sergey Chikuyonok’s jujitsu move is to do the opposite. With Zen Coding you take a CSS selector like this:
(Via Ajaxian » Front Page.)
The Funny and Bizarre World of Client Requests
Great article about client requests. I’ve personally come across probably all of these at one time or another. One of my favorite requests when was someone asked if I could make the bullets in a bulleted list blue because the color blue was more “internety”. I’m not making that up.
1. Bigger Logo
Probably the most requested of all time is to make the logo bigger or more ‘prominent’. Many clients seem not to recognise branding as a whole and think that the most effective way to improve that is by increasing the size of the logo.
The logo must be a 200% bigger
Source: Paz Odone (Facebook)
Read the full article at Inspect Element
10 Must Have Hacks For WordPress Development
Spyre Studios has a handy list of WordPress Hacks.
10 Must Have Hacks For WordPress Development
Building your own wordpress themes will open your eyes to a lot of things, mainly the fact that you’ll be retyping a lot of code over and over and over again. So in this post I am going to show you ten wordpress code hacks that you can add to your arsenal that will not only save you a lot of time, but they will also set your themes apart from others who don’t come pre built with these types of features.
Modpoll.com Gets a Makeover
This week we rolled out an updated look to modpoll.com. The change is the first part of an ongoing upgrade to many of the existing features of modpoll.com and work that’s been going on to add new features. The new look cleans up the UI a bit and makes the site more user friendly as well making it easier to integrate some of the new features in the future. We’ve gotten a lot of great positive feedback from our users and we’re always working to make the site better. Thanks to everyone who’s written in and to all of the users out there who use modpoll.com every day!
Modpoll on Accujazz.com
Being the Jazz fans that we are we were “jazzed” to see a modpoll featured on the homepage of accujazz.com. If you’re looking to “jazz” up your own website with some polling goodness head over modpoll.com and check it out. Ya dig.