Episode 17: Divitis
In episode 17 the guys thank Red Bull Cola, talk website statistics, the Dos and Don’ts of web media, and much more.
News and Follow-Ups
- 00:45 – Special thanks to Catherine from RedBull!
- 02:28 – Woopra – Analytics in real time
- Logstalgia – Apache visualizer
Webapps
- 13:18 – Instapaper – A fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later.
- 24:00 – UI Patterns – UI design library
- 28:08 – Pixlr – Online image editing
Topics
- 33:29 – Google Ad Planner - Connect with specific advertisers
- 41:39 – WebDosandDonts.com
- Don’t use tables for layouts
- Don’t use negative letter spacing
- Don’t think valid html is good html
- Autoplay is not best practice
- Don’t use @import
- Do use semantic markup for tag clouds
- Cure your divitis
- Microformats
- Use an asterisk to indicate required fields
- Use better font stacks
May 19th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I disagree with some of the bits from webdosanddonts.com. They seem to say things so absolutely, yet disregard some points where DON’T can become a DO in the hands of someone who knows what they’re doing. It may be a good resource for beginners, I suppose.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I hope Mark and I conveyed that in our discussion of them. While I try not to think of anything as an iron clad absolute guide, sometimes you need to set those boundaries for new people so that later they can figure out when it’s okay to break them!
May 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
@Jade: You did. No worries.
New rule for everyone else: DON’T just take anything you read as true until you’ve tried it or know enough about why it’s a rule. Even then, question yourself often.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Did you guys checkout PHPUnit?
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
And piwik?
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