TechKnack

I’ve just finished a little project that I’ve been working a few days on: replacing a form’s dropdown field (such as a State or Country field) with a more usable text field with auto-suggest. Jakob Nielson, a “usability expert”, has posted a couple of articles (Does User Annoyance Matter? and Drop-Down Menus: Use [...]

Think you got what it takes to slice up a PSD file into a valid and usable (X)HTML template? Then check out CSS Off, a contest that gives you the opportunity to do just that. At one minute past midnight CST on April 5, a PSD file will be uploaded for contestants to [...]

Update 8/17/09: I’ve installed the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved wordpress plugin, which not only highlights code, but also gives access to plaintext source and copy-to-clipboard functionality.
After the upgrade to WordPress, I haven’t updated the theme to include this feature. I may just stick to code highlighting for now.
I’ve employed a bit of progressive JS here on [...]

In my Advanced Web Design class at school, my professor asked us to post what we thought defined a well-designed website. I thought I’d share my answer here. I’m sure he wasn’t expecting anything so involved as this
“What makes a well-designed website?” That’s quite a question.
As a dabbler in web [...]

Original article: Most Popular Posts list for blogger
In my last article “Most Popular Posts list for blogger,” I presented my version of Chris Riley’s Analytics API workaround. I also promised to go through the JavaScript for those who were interested
The JS
Without further ado, the code:

<div id="popularposts"><noscript>Please enable javascript to view the most [...]