Monday, February 22nd, 2010
"It's a fact: People won't use your website if they can't find their way around it." --Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability Navigation: It's everywhere in our lives. We have it in our cars, phones, malls, grocery stores, street signs and our own ...Friday, January 22nd, 2010
With the estimated hundreds of social networking sites that keep popping up these days, it's easy to write them off as one and the same. But every once in awhile, one comes along that's too good to pass up. Our latest discovery? Appboy. Appboy is a fresh social network for mobile ...Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
jQTouch is a jQuery plugin with native animations, automatic navigation, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre. Created by David Kaneda, jQTouch is easy to install and entirely customizable. Features include: * Flexible themes, including default Apple and jQTouch custom themes. * Callback functions throughout, including swipe and ...Thursday, December 17th, 2009
With everything Google has been doing to enhance website efficiency lately (read: Google Site Performance and Google Caffeine), it comes as no surprise that they've introduced another layer to the web performance fold. Launched yesterday, Google Browser Size aims to help web designers and developers get the most out of ...Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
If you've been out of the loop lately, then you may have missed Google's big announcement about their newest communication platform called Google Wave. Google Wave allows users to communicate and collaborate in real time by combining email, instant messaging, social networking, wikis, project management and web chat all in ...Friday, September 25th, 2009
One of the easiest ways to let readers know you updated your site with new content is with a RSS feed. A RSS feed (which translates to Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based file format that allows you to share and distribute your website content. Readers subscribe to your feed ...Monday, September 21st, 2009
BuddyPress is our new favorite tool. It's a massive plug-in that can be used with WordPress MU to add a virtual plethora of social networking features to your website. WordPress MU is the multi-user version of WordPress. WordPress MU is most famously used for WordPress.com where it serves tens of ...Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Urbanspoon It happens to all of us: you're hungry, but can't really decide what to eat. Or you want to try something new, but don't want to pay for a bad meal. Luckily, your phone can help. Urbanspoon is a restaurant app designed to help you decide where to eat. Presented ...Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
For the last leg of our three-part post, we've compiled our last 15 of the most entertaining and technical sites from PCMag's Top 100 Websites of 2009. Read on to discover more sites you may not have known about. 1up.com 1up.com is a gamers paradise. They offer up-to-the-minute gaming news, in-depth previews ...Thursday, August 13th, 2009
As mentioned last week, we're giving you our "greatest hits" version of PCMag's Top 100 Sites of 2009. For Vol. 2 of our three-part post, we present 15 more quality web sites ranging from helpful to intriguing to just plain awesome. Read on to get the scoop on our selections. Seesmic These ...Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Yesterday, the folks over at PCMag.com picked their annual top 100 Websites of 2009, including 50 classic sites and 50 (possibly) undiscovered sites, based on content quality, design and originality. And since Pixeldust is a fan of any creative, expertly-functional website, we decided to give you our "greatest hits" version ...Friday, July 24th, 2009
On April 22, 2009, Google celebrated Earth Day by giving their logo a rain forest/coral reef look. It also features two specific areas of the earth that are thought to be in the most danger due to global warming. On March 2, 2009, this logo appeared on the Google home page ...Friday, July 17th, 2009
Yesterday, the folks over at Mashable posted a new blog entry entitled "IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On." Since then, the post has been retweeted over 3200 times, received over 2700 diggs and quickly moved up the list on Twitter's Trending Topics. The article seems to ...Friday, July 17th, 2009
Google's quest for total web domination over the last couple of years has produced an army of helpful and successful products, including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Earth and more. And while Google's most successful products get a ton of press, they also have a huge list of lesser-known products that deserve ...Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Since the Internet is quickly becoming mainstream media's biggest contender, it's easy for your company's message to get drowned out in the mix. One of the easiest ways to set your company apart from the competition is the use of a professional, easily recognizable logo. Think about it--what comes to ...
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