Josh:
The modern day cut-up man/woman/shop is dead when it comes to a dynamic system. It’s sad because no obituary was written nor news alert on AP/CNN posted, but it’s true. The theory, that a company or individual needs to ‘cut-up’ the design composition into a semi-working website before full development of the backend system is highly unnecessary and inefficient. In a time where budgets are even tighter than they have been in years past and a need for continual push around efficiency in development, eliminating the process of cut-ups before development needs to die quickly.
Posted 01/20/2012 - 09:55
Josh:
Primer:
I thought that I would start a series of fairly straight forward posts that refer to the basics that are so often overlooked in web development and more specifically the realm of front end development. Utilizing sprites should be one of those techniques that it’s a no brainer and have no second thoughts/reasons on why not to use them. In case you did forget, the sprite is in reference to early video game developers who used a large image to contain multiple states of an entity while preserving precious space on the game media at the time.
Posted 12/21/2011 - 11:57
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Josh:
There are more flavors of browsers out there than coffee choices at your local Starbucks. I may not be 100% correct on that statement, but toss in browsers resolutions and the different operating systems that people are viewing on and the numbers are quite close.
"Can I get a firefox 3.5 on OSX with my 1440 x 900 resolution to go?"
"My IE6 on windows xp is how much? 1024x768?"
"Do you have any fresh chromes? My Ubuntu loves them!"
Don’t get me started on odd browsers like NutScrape, Orca, Salamander, Skipstone, SkyKruzer, Kazehakase, Madfox, Arachne, Charon, Chimera, Dillo, Oregano, and Viola, just to name a few.
Posted 09/15/2011 - 10:16
Karen:
We're working hard on OpenPublish on Drupal 7, and excited to share our progress.
Posted 08/04/2011 - 22:10
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Dave:
We’ve all been to a website that’s overrun with advertising. Performance on these tends to be abysmal -- the slow loading time is mostly thanks to all those jumping, flashing, talking, moving, animated sidebars, headers, footers, and mid-page graphics screaming for our attention.
Posted 02/09/2011 - 10:01
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Tiffany:
Phase2 Technology and Mediacurrent are proud to announce the availability of a white paper titled Building Large-Scale Publishing Sites with Drupal.
Posted 04/16/2010 - 15:54
Jeff:
Today we are releasing our first publicly available open source version of Tattler on Drupal.org. Tattler is a way to monitor topics you are interested in and learn who is talking about them, where, when and how.
Tattler might be used by a researcher, journalist, blogger, technology analyst, or PR specialist or anyone looking for a better way to research on the web. In other words, Tattler is for those that don't just listen to, but help shape the public policy debate - either with coverage or research. So what is unique about Tattler?
Posted 10/12/2009 - 22:19
Jeff:
Yesterday, I had the privilege of moderating a panel session at the Online News Association's 2009 Conference in San Francisco on the use of semantic web technologies for publishers entitled "Can the Semantic Web Really Save your Site?" Our 3 guests included two CTOs for major online news organizations and a semantic web author and technology expert. I was really looking forward to this and was not let down at the caliber of knowledge these guys brought to the table (literally).
Posted 10/05/2009 - 17:34
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Tiffany:
Today we announced the start of beta for our topic-monitoring tool Tattler.
Posted 08/27/2009 - 07:56
Jeff:
In this podcast, Bryan House from Acquia talks to Frank Febbraro, Jeff Walpole and Irakli Nadareishvili at Phase2 as they talk about Tattler, OpenPublish and the role of solution-oriented distributions in Drupal.
Posted 08/05/2009 - 22:32
