Five awful sites built on the Twitter API - Download Squad Since Twitter decided to take care of the frequent outages that used to plague its servers, I've actually started using it here and there. It's a nice service, and definitely has useful applications. You've only got to look as far as sites like NowPublic and Twubble to see how the API can be put to good use. However, there are a mountain of applications feeding off it and they're not all contenders for Best in Show. TwitemperatureFinally, a service that can tell you how hot or cold you are on Twitter. I'd also like to know how their script works. And no, I'm not just bitter because I'm only a few degrees above freezing. CursebirdWhat a great use for the Twitter API - a realtime display of all the posts that contain swearing! There's an old saying that goes "You can't polish a turd." Twitter Weather Hey, I know what would make people more interested in my Twitter page: daily weather updates for my home town! TweetWants The site says "You want stuff.
15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website | How-To | Sma Advertisement Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world. This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release. Favicon A favicon brands the tab or window in which your website is open in the user’s browser. And if you have an iPhone favicon: Titles And Meta Data Your page title is the most important element for SEO and is also important so that users know what’s on the page. Cross-Browser Checks Proofread Read everything.
Using Google WorldMap visualization component in your applications « The Storyteller Its really hard to find a good flash based world map component to use in your web applications. They are either too complex to add or they cost quite a lot. And even sometime if you pay that, its tough to customize the chart as you want it to look like. First we need to create a datatable which will act as a data source for this world map, as usual like all other google visualization component. now we will initialize the google visualization framework and draw this component using this data source but wait, we are not done yet – to make sure that everything works properly, we need to wrap all of these code inside a function (for example name this function as drawGeoMap) and we will use that function as a callback to draw this map. and of course, we need to load the google visualization library and geomap component first so here is the complete code of this you can check the demo at it will display a world map with highlighted countries like below
32 Indispensable Bookmarklets for Web Developers and Designers | Speckyboy Design Magazine All of these bookmarklets/favelets will be useful to all web designers and developers, they are the quickest method for testing, analyzing and tweaking any web page. A Bookmarklet or Favelet is a small application tool, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. To use these bookmarklets you can drag and drop the links to your Bookmark Toolbar or right click and save link as, this way you will always have quick access to these great tools Layout Grid and Overlay Bookmarklets Bookmarklet Javascript Code (Copy and Paste) : javascript:void(d=document);void(el=d.getElementsByTagName('body'));void(el%5B0%5D.style.background='url( MRI from WESTCIV Bookmarklet Javascript Code : Spry Medias Design Bookmarklet Quick Accessibility Page Tester Reload CSS Slayer Office Mouseover DOM Inspector (Domi) Slayer Office Favelet Suite Wave – Web Accesibilty javascript:void(window.open(' CSS Bookmarklets
10 code snippets to interact with Twitter 1 – Autofollow script (PHP) This code allow you to automatically follow user who have tweeted about a specific term. For example, if you want to follow all users who tweeted about php, simply give it as a value to the $term variable on line 7. Source : 2 – Get the number of follower in full text (PHP) When you have a website or blog and use Twitter, it can be cool to display how many followers you have. <? Source : Rarst on 3 – View who doesn’t follow you (Python) Some people don’t like the idea of following people who don’t follow you back.
Building trello.com for multiple devices We built Trello from the ground up to work on just about any device. It’s not a simplified version with limited features, either. Trello responds to your device’s screen size and capabilities. It’s the same exact site and the same exact code; a consistent experience that looks, feels, and works the same everywhere. But we also have an iPhone app. Everything we do for mobile translates back to a better desktop experience. All the interface elements are mobile-friendly, which means they are also more desktop-friendly. There are no redirects. Scaling, zooming, and resizing work seamlessly. We can deliver updates to all devices seamlessly. So how does it all work? Here are some of the tools and tricks that made developing a responsive interface much easier. Use a limited library of mobile-optimized, reusable components. Think twice about navigation. Use a vector-based image editor like Illustrator to produce icons. That being said… And we still love native apps!
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