Simian Design

These are my delicious links for January 4th:

• Optimizing HTML – Great writeup on why you should optimize your HTML.
• UsabilityPost Forum – Good usability resource.
• Nic Cage as Everyone – heh. Who knew his talents were so vast?
• 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist – These are amazing. But I don't understand why there isn't a jetpack… A Jetpack would be an awesome weapon.

These are my delicious links for January 7th through January 8th:

• Book Cover Archive – For the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design
• Worlds undersea cables. – Nice chart showing how the world's wired up.
• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks – Nice collection of hacks and examples for WordPress.
• Lego Star Wars. – brickplumber's photostream is a fantastic collection of lego Star Wars figures and creations. Fun fun fun.
• Andy Griffith theme/Beyonce mashup – This is so incredibly captivating, just brought a wide smile to my face. Party Ben's Single Ladies (In Mayberry) (Beyoncé vs. "The Andy Griffith Show" Theme) is just the thing to start your day with.
• 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers | Graphics | Smashing Magazine – Great collection of images to spruce up your iPhone.
• Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders – Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don't be surprised. They're just following the service's new "counter-blogging" flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force's public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle "trolls," "ragers" — and even well-informed online writers, too. It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force," Captain David Faggard says.
• Vertoramas – Ralph Cooksey-Talbott is a landscape photographer who studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite in the 1970's. Cooksey is currently doing vertical panoramic photography that is reminiscent in composition to monumental Asian landscape ink-on-silk paintings. He calls them Vertoramas and I think they are exceptionally beautiful. Besides selling prints, Cooksey provides many of his images as free desktop pictures.

These are my delicious links for December 23rd:

• Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font) – This isn't a bad looking coding font. Don't know if it's going to be my go-to, but I like the sizing options with this a great deal. Defintely worth checking out. The price is free, as in beer.

Flickr recently released a Flickr site custom tailored for the iPhone.  They wrote about some of the rules they learnt doing this site, which I find fascinating.  I’m pulling out the main points, but you really need to go read the detailed description of why they’re doing things the way they are.

1. Don’t Use a JavaScript Library or CSS Framework
2. Load Page Fragments Instead of Full Pages
3. Don’t Build for Just One Device
4. Optimize Everything
5. Tell the User What is Happening

Now they’ve put together a library just for the iPhone that handles many of these items. The iUI framework seems to be a iPhone version of the YUI framework, but it’s a good start.

These are my delicious links for November 14th:

• Displaying code on your blog – Nice embeddable code using SyntxHighlighter

These are my delicious links for November 13th:

• 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean – The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, yet so many websites suffer from poorly written markup.

  Let’s take a look at some poorly written HTML, discuss its problems, and then whip it into shape!

• Image Resizing – Interestingly (and not surprisingly), browsers differ in rendering images at non-native sizes, with some providing noticeably better results than others. Internet Explorer 6 in particular looked to be the least smooth when scaling images down, but some interesting workarounds are available.

These are my delicious links for November 12th:

• 18 Rules the Best Web Developers Follow – A nice collection of base rules Web Developers follow, or at least should follow. The only one I might disagree with is the one about IE 6. Determine your own baseline from your logs, you can see what the overwhelming browser is. Sometimes it might be IE6, other times not.
• neuron-galaxy.jpg (image) – AMAZING photo comparing a mouses brain cell to the universe. Freakily similar.
• Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes? – NETTUTS – A nice listing of Ten Common CSS Mistakes.

These are my delicious links for November 6th:

• Golden Ratio in modern CSS – A short article, but useful information. "…Let’s say for example that our page width is 960 pixels and we want to divide this using the golden ratio. Our main-content will be 960 / 1.62 = 593 pixels and our sidebar 960 – 593 = 367 pixels. …"

These are my delicious links for November 5th:

• The Best Cheat Sheets for Web Developers – Good collection of links to a wide variety of cheat sheets. jQuery, prototype, extJS, HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.

These are my delicious links for October 14th:

• Galleriffic – A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries – Nice image gallery script, fast.
• CSS simple fluid drop shadows – Stu Nichols provides an easy CSS example of creating fluid solid drop-shadows.
• jQuery & CSS Example – An extremely basic, yet extremely powerful, technique for adding dropdown menus using jQuery and CSS.