Sites of interest

Published: November 30, 2009

Fixed elements in web design with examples

The Evolution of Web Design

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In November’09

In the news

Published: November 20, 2009

Opera 10.10 Released, Includes New “Unite” Tech

Opera 10.10 has been released, and with it their new “Unite” technology, which allows users to share content directly between all of their own devices. Unite wraps both web browser and web server into a single package in an attempt to change the way users think about their browser.

“‘We promised Opera Unite would reinvent the Web,’ said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. ‘What we are really doing is reinventing how we as consumers interact with the Web. By giving our devices the ability to serve content, we become equal citizens on the Web. In an age where we have ceded control of our personal data to third-parties, Opera Unite gives us the freedom to choose how we will share the data that belongs to us.'”

– Via Slashdot

New worm targets jailbroken iPhones for Dutch online banking customers

There are reports of a new worm that targets jailbroken iPhones and behaves like a botnet. It targets people in the Netherlands who use their iPhones for online banking with the Dutch bank ING, and the worm affects devices with SSH installed.

– Via BoingBoing

White House Website Switches To Open Source

WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal…. ‘This is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.’

– via Slashdot

Sites of Interest

Published: November 14, 2009

I, Cringely – Cringely on technology – this is a WordPress site

CSS positioning

Published: November 11, 2009

CSS Positioning @ w3schools

Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps

CSS Positioning @ BrainJar

Flexible Layouts with CSS Positioning

Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification

Integrated Web Design: Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified

Stopping the CSS positioning panic (Part 1)

Miscellaneous

Custom 404 with jQuery and jQuery UI

Tutorial: From PHP to XML to jQuery and Ajax

Using jQuery and Ajax To Create PHP Sessions

From MySQL to jQuery, via PHP, XML & Ajax

Sites of interest

Published: November 3, 2009

Website Design Tutorials: a Roundup by Jordan @ unionroom.com

Grunge In Web Design: Samples And Best Practices

Ten Useful Text Enhancing Plugins for WordPress

Top 10 WordPress Security Plugins

60 Trendy Web Design Interfaces Created In October