List of nifty tools and diagrams. Advertisement Being a web-developer means not only being able to design web-sites or program their functionality. Sometimes it also means to be able to explain complex issues clearly and be able to present to your potential customers reasonable and convincing arguments – in order to find the best compromise between the customer’s wishes and the standards you respect. In fact, it is essential to make sure the customer understands which advantages you are actually offering and why this or that layout and markup are better for a given web-project.
Developing web-sites over the last few years, we’ve been stumbling over the same problem over and over again: how can I visualize my idea easily and quickly? Since human being is used to visualize things, trying to understand the idea behind them, recently we’ve spent hours googling for useful tools and tutorials which would help us to create images – mostly, diagrams, charts, chart-flows etc. Links checked: May/14 2008. Tutorials Free Web-Tools. CSS: Specificity Wars. CSS: Specificity Wars Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and geeks!
A few weeks back in Cupertino, I saw Aaron explain how the specificity of CSS selectors is calculated in a way which I hadn't seen before. Then today I came across a knotty problem while building XHTML and CSS templates for a new project where two selectors behaved differently to how I expected and I realised that I had not completed my training. The Dark Side My problem was a simple one, how to feed a transparent PNG image to browsers which support transparency and a GIF image to older browsers which don't, without resorting to hacks. Here's the markup, <div id="nav-supp"><p><a id="a-02" href="#webstandards-org">Top</a></p><! And my CSS starting point. I had assumed that a modern browser would see and apply both rules (with the second overriding the first) and that an older browser which does not understand attribute selectors would see and apply only the first, ignoring the second. Sith Lords Too much!
33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online. It's time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47'' plasma ones, but...you know what we mean. The future of media is the Internet, and television is no exception. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote, you could be browsing through the free online TV providers on your computer - hell, if you like, you can watch them all at once (in really tiny windows).
It's time to reach out and see how much free online TV we can find. YouTube Well, duh. Joost Another much-hyped favorite from the authors of Skype is still in beta stage, but i actually delivers on all fronts: P2P system for delivering content; solid amounts of good content, great GUI, almost glitch-free work, quality video. Babelgum Babelgum is similar to Joost in two ways: P2P-based content delivery, and free but ad-supported content. Zattoo A p2p-based online television with a downloadable client focused on European (over 50) channels. Veoh Democracy EpisodeNetwork Dailymotion BlinkX Guba. iJigg.com | Popular Music. Geni.com - Genealogy for Web 2.0. Joost™