Wordpress – mobile optimization

since learning about ready.mobi earlier this week, I spent the better part of my evenings checking my own sites for mobile compliance – with, aehm, mixed results. for my wordpress-blogs I’ve been using a combination of iWPhone for iPhone-specific rendering, and  Wordpress Mobile Edition for all other mobile devices. since the latter only comes with [...]

new toys for web-developers…

XRAY is a point-and-click tool that exposes CSS-attributes, inheritance-hierarchy and screen-dimensions of any DOM-element. since XRAY is a bookmarklet, it works not only with Firefox but Safari/Webkit as well.

Yahoo’s YSlow is a plugin for popular Firefox-extension Firebug. YSlow analyzes a webpage’s performance and assigns grades (A-F) regarding number of HTTP-requests, use of expire-headers, use of [...]

dev: create on-the-fly graphics on websites

Mahemoff’s Software-As-She’s-Developed-blog gives a brief overview on eight methods for creating dynamic graphics within the browser. besides more obvious choices like SVG/VML (Vector Markup Language, Microsoft’s equivalet of SVG) or Flash, the post also introduces lesser known options like the Canvas-element (think of a fully scriptable -element – currently supported by Firefox, Safari & Opera) [...]

dev: XHTMLized

XHTMLized is a service claiming to convert your design-comp (think photoshop) to XHTML/CSS in max. 5 days – for an astounding average rate of 150 US$. potential customers can request a particular quote by uploading the compostion. XHTMLized promises valid, accessible and search-engine-friendly code. they even promise a money-back-guarantee in case you’re not satisifed [...]