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Development

• New Launch
• Web Site Design Longevity and CMSs

  The longevity and success of the design will depend on several factors, some of which may be out of the designer’s control. But the most important factors are within the designer’s influence, and should be accounted for.

• Stress-Testing a CMS-Driven Design

  When a site goes from design comps to development site, a lot of change has taken place. Once the design is being populated with real content, and the navigation is functional, you should stress-test the design in two key areas: translative and invasive stress testing.

• Using Google’s First Click Free with PHP

  Content in subscription web sites is naturally limited for search engines. This type of content can’t be indexed by Google because you have to log in to view it. How do you retain the benefits of being indexed by Google and still maintain subscriber-only content?

• ProcessWire - Developer API

  This article takes a closer look at the basics of ProcessWire’s developer API and provides a few code examples.

• ProcessWire - Building Structures

  In this screencast we look at how a page structure in ProcessWire can be used to build other web application structures.

• ProcessWire - Relational References

  This screencast shows how you can create cross references between pages in ProcessWire.

• Firefox, Radio Buttons and Javascript

  Firefox exhibits an undesirable behavior when reloading a page containing a form with radio buttons and dynamic form fields. This article takes a close look at the issue, isolates the conditions, and presents examples. Following that, a couple of simple solutions are presented as a way to avoid this issue.

• ProcessWire - Introduction

  ProcessWire is a content management system written in PHP 5 with an MVC architecture. Nearly every component within the application is plugin-based, making the application adaptable to a broad range of content management situations.

• asmSelect v1.0.4

  A new version of asmSelect has been released and is ready for download at Google code. Following is a list of changes/updates made in this version.

• Select Multiple Form Fields

  Despite their important function, select multiple form fields are problematic. This article looks at the inherent problems with select multiple form fields, and talks about ways to improve upon them.

• Firefox 3 Headaches

  This article looks at a few of the problems I’ve run into with Firefox 3, including some strangeness with Javascript, and issues with light text on dark backgrounds.

• jQuery and Javascript

  jQuery’s syntax and ease of use sets the standard for javascript frameworks. If you’ve held off on using javascript for any particular reason, then jQuery is likely to make you question those reasons.