12 Websites for Discovering New Desktop and Web Apps | Web Desig Everyday web designers and developers rely heavily on applications to do their job – a job that is always changing and evolving. This means that there’s always a need for new applications, but with so many apps being released, finding what you need can be an overwhelming task. Thankfully there are websites and blogs out there that find the best apps to make your job easier. App Sheriff App Sheriff is a relatively new blog, but is already full of useful reviews and information on the latest apps. WebAppers WebAppers is a blog dedicated to share top quality open source resources for web developer and web designer daily. Creative Applications CreativeApplications.Net is your daily dose of inspiring apps for Mac, PC and iPhone. Web.AppStorm Web.AppStorm reviews all the top apps and utilities that can help you work smarter and communicate more effectively. Webware Lovelypages Lovely pages is a web applications & services directory focused on a minimalist style. Mac.AppStorm W3Avenue Useful Tools
21 Ways Volunteers Can Help with Your Website | Talance Friendly [Photo credit: AVP Volunteer 2 by yuan2003, on Flickr] As any charitable organization knows, volunteers are superstars. They give love and expertise and don’t ask for a dime in return. They can be especially helpful if your organization has a website. Bearing in mind that an entire Web development project is long-term and requires dedicated knowledge and commitment that you’re better off hiring someone to do (upshot: it’s easier to fire someone whose work you’re not happy with), there are still plenty of other tasks you can assign out to people who want to help. Here are a few. [BTW, did you read Engaging Volunteers in Your Marketing Efforts or Volunteers and Website Management?] Anything we missed? Tags: maintenance, nonprofit, project management, volunteer
Will Google Buzz Change the Social Media Game? Update 2: Buzz has gotten off to a great start in terms of attracting users. Google said in a blog post yesterday that over 9 million posts and comments had been created, and they were seeing over 200 posts per minute. Both numbers have likely grown since then. In the post, Google addresses some of the privacy concerns people have been having, and improvements they’re making based on user feedback. Update: Google has uploaded the entire Google Buzz launch event. Article starts: Google held a press event to announce the most "buzzed" topic of the week - Google Buzz. Do you think Google could make an impact on social media with this release? Editor’s Note: The bulk of this article was written before the announcement was made and has been adjusted to reflect the announcement itself, after liveblogging the press event. Google says Buzz has five key elements: 1. Buzz will show a thumbnail of a YouTube video and make it easy to play in line. 1. Search Implications Competition Related Articles:
Creating a Web App from Scratch – Part 1 of 8: Basic Idea and De Today we begin Part 1 of an 8-Part series on building a web application from absolute scratch to a complete product. I am going to kick things off by introducing the idea, and then I will be handling the design, UI, and general front-end stuff. We are going to be going back and forth from here over to my friend Jason Lengstorf's site Copter Labs. Jason will be handling the back-end stuff like application planning and database stuff. At the end of the week, we'll unleash the actual working application for you. Here is the plan: It's Easy, Right? What we're going to create is a "list app". First of all, it needs to work and it needs to work well. Through this whole 8-part series, we are going to create an app that hopefully does all these things pretty well. The Big Idea This "list app" is going to be called Colored Lists. Sketch It Out No need to get fancy right away. Looks like a list to me. Early UI Planning Click-to-editDrag and dropTwo-click deleteAutomatic saving (after any action)
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