I just discovered a way to automatically shorten urls posted to Twitter: public static string MakeTinyUrl(string url) { try { if (url.Length <= 30) { return url;
The year 2009 promises to bring us some excellent, and even groundbreaking, new reads. Listed below are 30 web design related books from some of the brightest designers and developers in the industry, that will likely be influential must-reads.
From Andrew Houle's blog: This post dissects 4 principles of web design that help you create cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing sites. Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity It’s unbelievable how much better your designs will become when you take into consideration these four basic principles. There are always more things to consider, but a foundation of contrast, repetition, alignment and
Jordan posted a very quick and dirty list meant for people wanting to find out the absolute bare bones of SEO.Search Engine Optimization is the art of getting your site positioned as close to the top of the front page as possible. Here are the 8 items that Jordan considers most important: HTML Document Title HTML Document name Incoming links Page content Sitemaps Outgoing links Heading (H1,H2,
From Glen Stansberry's blog: Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. While they might be less familiar, they're still quite useful in certain situations. <cite> <optgroup> <acronym> <address> <ins> and <del> <label> <fieldset> <abbr> <rel> <wbr> I've used only three of these tags in my web development
The Mobile Browser Definition File contains definitions for individual mobile devices and browsers. At run time, ASP.NET uses the information in the request header to determine what type of device/browser has made the request. This project provides a data file that when used with ASP.NET will detect the incoming mobile device and present you as the web developer with a set of 67 capabilities or properties
Here is a list of various ASP.NET MVC Sample Applications demonstrating the new ASP.NET MVC Framework from Microsoft. As more MVC examples are found this list will be updated.
At the present moment, I have three virtual machines that I use to test website rendering on different browers. Not only is the process tedious, it is time-consuming and not interesting. Microsoft heard my (and many other web developers out there) prayers and answered with Expression Web 3 with SuperPreview. Expression Web SuperPreview for Windows Internet Explorer is a stand-alone visual debugging
Ever wanted to retract an email just sent? I have! Several times I wish I could un-send an email, because seconds after clicking 'Send', I realize I forgot to attach or include an important recipient, etc. So now you can! Turn on Undo Send in Gmail Labs under Settings, and you’ll see a new “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Click “Undo,” and they’ll grab
A large list of free or open-source ASP.NET applications. The long list includes e-Commerce / Online Shopping Carts Content Management Systems (CMS) Blogs / Blogging Link Directories Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Wiki's Instant Messaging Forum / Portals / Networks Recruitment / Job Systems Web / E Mail Image & Video Galleries Classifieds Help Desk/Ticketing Systems