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Web Development Proposals & resources

September 14th, 2006 · No Comments

In a recent hunt for ways to write project proposals I saw a very nice article by a company called Taoti…. I really suggest that you look at these articles and download a copy of the Proposal and use that for the “pre-sales” section of the web development you are undertaking.

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Tags: Design · General · PHP · Project Management · Projects · User

Web site testing – WHAT, HOW, WHY?

July 27th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Accessibility [Erin & Rachel] Usability [Peter & Marc] Process flow / business logic [Naomi] Code [Ben] Security [Marc] Navigation [Erin] Features / Functionality [Brendan] SEO [Robyn] Speed [Peter] Standards [Standards] Content [Rachel] Each of you selected one of the testing types and will write an entry in your own blog about it…. When two names are listed you should both make an entry on your own blogs and refer back to this story.

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Tags: Accessibility · Accessibility Testing · Databases · General scripting · Javascript · PHP · Performance · Script Testing · Search Engine Optimisation · Security · Security testing · Testing · Usability · Usability Testing · User · mySQL Security

CSS Hints – Centering blocks

November 15th, 2005 · 1 Comment

To center a block of text (centerblock) inside another block (container), with the text that is in the block left aligned then the following should work fine:
XHTML:

CSS:

Sample output:

Note: demo is shown with borders shown to make it easier, and size reduced to 300px wide on the block.

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Tags: CSS

Great site designs #2

October 16th, 2005 · No Comments

there is a diverse set of sites each with their own merits on site design. Here are a few more for your perusal…

37 signals – http://37signals.com/svn/
presentation zen – http://presentationzen.blogs.com/
ta-da list – http://www.tadalist.com/
Electronic Transaction Consultants Corporation – http://www.etcc.com/
GIS – http://www.geninfo.com/

Plus some css zen garden examples

http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/030/030.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=157/157.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/028/028.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.danleroux.com/newzen/boundtohappen.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://students.jbu.edu/fletcherc/zen01/sample.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.decisivecommunications.com/zengarden/accessibility2004/sample.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=168/168.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/143/143.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=166/166.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=170/170.css
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.chrisevans.co.nz/zengarden/cpe_001.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=169/169.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=161/161.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=151/151.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=149/149.css
http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/index.jsp

Any you can recommend?

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Tags: Design · Web Links

Example for Mod RewriteRule

October 16th, 2005 · No Comments

http://vikrant_labde.blogspot.com/2005/05/example-for-mod-rewriterule.html

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Tags: Search Engine Optimisation · Usability · Web Links