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Making the ShopTalk Show theme tune

I’m a regular listener to the ShopTalk Show podcast, a really great show about web design and development hosted by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert. A couple of years ago, not long after the show started, I offered Chris and Dave a very rough piece of music as a theme tune, and they’ve been using…

Tuesday is Link Day

Business, teamwork and marketing Interesting article about assessing developer (and designer, I guess) performance: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/assessing-employee-performance-1a8bdee45c1a There’s a new version of the web developers SEO cheat sheet: https://moz.com/blog/seo-cheat-sheet Working with other: the sliding scale of giving a f**k (language warning): http://bit.ly/1Gn8XKc Seth Godin on making faster decisions: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/05/how-to-go-faster.html Beware of calendars: https://medium.com/@monteiro/the-chokehold-of-calendars-f70bb9221b36 “Writing for the web…

Wednesday is Link Day

Here we are again, a lovely set of links for you to enjoy. Performance A beginners guide to high-performance website (free 89-page course): http://gomakethings.com/wicked-fast-websites/ Think you know web performance? Take the quiz: http://www.webspeedgeek.com/quiz/content/home.aspx (but check out the leaderboard, some Very Clever People on there) Open source performance dashboard: http://www.peterhedenskog.com/blog/2015/04/open-source-performance-dashboard/ Performance bookmarklet, Chrome and Firefox extension:…

Saturday is Link Day

For several years I have been sharing links with work colleagues, giving my emails the snazzy name of ” is Link Day!”. The day, of course, is the day I send the email. I have been silly in not also sharing these links on my blog, not because of the thousands of regular reads I…

Spotlight: jQuery plugin

Recently I worked on a website help system, the main feature of which was to highlight particular elements on areas of the page. You know the kind of thing: ‘Click the highlighted search button to search your data’. The designs I was given showed the web page covered by a semi-transparent grey overlay, except for…

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