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CatsWhoCode.com So, you’ve spent some time building your e-commerce brand. You’re making a handful of sales each month, but it’s not taking off the way you hoped it would. You do a little digging into your analytics and you learn people who spend 20 minutes on your site almost always buy something. But those who check out just one or two pages, well, they don’t stick around long enough to spend any money. What gives? Being faster and more efficient is the goal of all web designers and developers. Sobees Launches iPad App NewsMix, A Socially Curated Digital Magazine Sobees has made a business of creating innovative social media clients, particularly focusing on bringing Twitter, Facebook and social search to the a variety of platforms. Today, the developer is getting into the news business with the launch of NewsMix, an iPad app which presents news and content shared by your social circle in a magazine format on the device. The app, which costs $2.99 in the App Store, allows you to create and mix a digital magazine composed of content shared in your Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds (Google Reader and feed search). The app will categorize content in a magazine or show news in a separate timeline format for Facebook and Twitter. And you can view photos and videos in separate sections.

Project OpenGrok OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine. It helps you search, cross-reference and navigate your source tree. It can understand various program file formats and version control histories like Mercurial, Git, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, Teamware, ClearCase, Perforce, Monotone and Bazaar. In other words it lets you grok (profoundly understand) source code and is developed in the open, hence the name OpenGrok. It is written in Java. 100+ Resources for Web Developers Photo Credit: SMITHMag Update #1 – March 14, 2008 Update #2 – September 22, 2008 CSS tricks - Design Blog by Matthew James Taylor CSS tricks Lots of neat CSS tricks and tutorials that I use and recommend The Floating Boxes CSS Layout An alternative website design to the standard 'fixed width' or 'liquid layout' designs Blog tags © Copyright 1993 - 2010 Matthew James Taylor unless otherwise noted.

5 Good Things To Use As Pinned Tabs In Your Browser The Big Three web browsers all now have pinning ability. IE9 can pin to the taskbar, Mozilla Firefox 5 can pin as "app tabs" and Chrome can pin tabs as well. I’m going to skip IE9 here because its pinning ability is limited to the Windows taskbar and not in-browser; even though it can pin, I want to concentrate on in-browser stuff only. An example of pinned tabs looks like this: Pinned tabs are smaller and only show the site icon. In the above example I have AOL Mail and Facebook pinned. Cool Kitten: A parallax scrolling responsive framework jalxob.com Buy this domain The owner of jalxob.com is offering it for sale for an asking price of 600 USD! CSS Block vs Inline - CSS Made Simple HTML elements can be displayed either in block or inline style. The difference between these is one of the most basic things you need to know in order to use CSS effectively. If you’d like to master CSS, here are the books I’d recommend! <a href=" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article',' Widgets</a> The 3 ways that HTML elements can be displayed All HTML elements are naturally displayed in one of the following ways: