Hello everyone. It’s time to once again premiere a brand new Devlounge feature. This time around, it’s a weekly update on all things design & development. Introducing Friday Focus.
Published every Friday, Focus will highlight 3 of my favorite designs from the week found in various css & design galleries. I’ll also choose my own personal favorite “design” and “programming” article of the week from Digg. These will come from the top dugg stories of the week, but will be ones I believe are well worth the read – not useless stories that just may have received the most diggs.
Not only will focus add a weekly updated segment to Devlounge, but it will allow us to spotlight sites, projects, and articles found on other resources that are useful to you.
Now let’s get started with Friday Focus #1.
Sites of the Week
Sites that caught my eye in css galleries over the past week. Clicking the screenshots will take you to the entire sites.
Digg Weekly
Design: How To Convince a Client Not to Use Background Music
I’ve lost count of how many clients have requested that music be playing in the background of their website. As a professional web developer with a few too many years of implementing ridiculous requests, I’ve acquired quite a knack for convincing a client that music is a bad idea. There are obvious exceptions: such as band websites or sites heavily involved in multimedia. I’m talking about content-rich sites where the user does not expect (or want) a multimedia experience…
Programming: Top 126 AJAX Tutorials
Large link list to various ajax tutorials. Organized very nicely, and contains many accurate tutorials.
Web Application of the Week
This weeks web application of the week goes to Tick. You may remember our preview of the application back in July. Well earlier this week Tick finally made it’s public debut. Coming in six different pricing plans, from $0 to $79, give Tick a try today.
Weekly Opinions
Earlier this week Google released Google Code Search. While there are benefits to a search-able index of code, there are also many disabilities.
Consider you have a few custom scripts built (either by yourself or paid for), and Google then indexes it. Your work on coding is now available to the public to have a free view at. There have also been reports of Google Code Search compromising database passwords by simply showing the source code. Will Google code spell disaster by making too much code available to the public? Post your responses in the comments!
