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How to increase your productivity
David Montgomery | 02 Aug 2010
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UTF-8
Peter Dekkers | 15 Jun 2010
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Terminal shortcuts for Mac
3 comments David Montgomery | 09 Apr 2010
I am on the command line everyday at Springload and these shortcuts are simple yet indispensable.
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Influence the Colour Range in 8-bit Graphics
1 comment Reg Sime | 18 Mar 2010
Leveraging Photoshop's colour-range modification capabilities can enhance the appearance of your web graphics and save on file size.
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Javascript Drop Shadows
10 comments James Player | 11 Dec 2009
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Productivity Apps - Textexpander
2 comments David Montgomery | 17 Jun 2009
This article is about a very nice little productivity application for the Mac that saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently used text strings and images. This piece of…
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Chunked transfer encoding and onDOMReady
Peter Dekkers | 15 May 2009
The main benefit of chunked transfer encoding is that it progressively shows content while your HTML loads. Enter unobtrusive JavaScript and its often used "onDOMReady" event. Combine the two and the problem arises…
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IE8, IE7 and IE6 - running side by side in harmony
1 comment Richie Blake | 08 May 2009
With the release of Internet Explorer 8, browser testing got just that little bit more difficult, and getting all the browsers you need to test in, working seamlessly in one desktop environment, became almost…
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Springload on Last.fm
Peter Dekkers | 08 May 2009
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TinyMCE plugin: auto resize
46 comments Peter Dekkers | 07 May 2009
We frequently use the TinyMCE WYSIWYG here at Springload, and were faced with the problem of it not resizing when content gets added. This resulted in a limited overview of the content and a lot of scrolling. We…
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Pop-Open menus
1 comment Michael Scott | 14 Apr 2009
Drop-down-pop-open application menus. A story of good vs. evil.
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Detecting Bandwidth with Flash and loading the right content
1 comment Diogo Freire | 01 Apr 2009
Sometimes for slower connections can't manage to lose functionality for the beautiful animations. Alternate content is needed and Flash is the to-go guy for the rescue!
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Choosing a JavaScript framework - will it fly?
1 comment Peter Dekkers | 12 Mar 2009
Determining which framework to build sites with is a choice that can make or break. Over the last few months we've looked at a large assortment of JavaScript frameworks/libraries and made our decision. Here's why…
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Power editing with Textmate
4 comments David Montgomery | 19 Feb 2009
Textmate is a powerful text editing application for the Mac that can make life easy when it comes to coding.
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Cross-browser Drop-shadow Text
4 comments Reg Sime | 05 Feb 2009
Give your HTML text a lift with drop-shadows. This method works in IE6 and IE7, as well as our more compliant browsers.
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Sliding Doors Submit Buttons
3 comments James Player | 02 Feb 2009
Create a styled submit button that varies in length as its value changes, without relying on Javascript!
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A brief look at the colour contrast guidelines, how they relate to your designs and the tools to check them.
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Sticky footers
2 comments James Player | 22 Nov 2008
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Mouse gestures, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the mouse
2 comments Andy Condon | 15 Nov 2008
Reach out and touch the web, and speed up your browsing to boot. Mouse gestures are one of the biggest changes to my web experience since online gaming, and that’s saying something.
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iPhones, aesthetics and functionality
Claire Symons | 07 Nov 2008
The exciting and challenging task of designing an iPhone optimised version of Kiwibank's Internet banking pages.
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Backgrounds Disappear on Horizontal Scroll
9 comments Reg Sime | 06 Nov 2008
Often when viewing your website on a narrow display (800x600) some of your backgrounds may disappear when you scroll horizontally. Go ahead and try it on the footer of this page. D'oh, Player has since fixed it on…
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MVC 101 – Or How I Saw the Light and Finally Separated the Different Parts of My Website
2 comments Tim Higgs | 02 Nov 2008
When designing the architecture of a website, it pays to have some structure.
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Alternative typefaces on the web
2 comments Andrew Hovey | 26 Oct 2008
The limited selection of typefaces at a web designers disposal is an ever present headache.
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Taking web design from good to great. Is it worth it? Does anyone notice anyway? And is it likely to force more usability issues in the process?
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Swiss Design
1 comment Marcus Josty | 21 Oct 2008
What could be more interesting or challenging for a Swiss designer than to start his first New Zealand project with a bank?
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What is usability?
Michael Scott | 14 Oct 2008
This series of articles starts with what lies behind the science of website usability and then explores some of the basic principles and techniques that can be applied to website design.
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Why has usability become such a big player in contemporary website design?
Michael Scott | 13 Oct 2008
Why has usability become such a big player in contemporary website design?
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How can we help users find the information they are looking for? Some basic steps to good web design.
