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Mashable Web Design Toolbox

Todd Baker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:46:00 +0000

Mashable have created a great list of sites that do everything from creating heatmaps of your site to making fav icons!

Live Validation

Todd Baker — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:32:00 +0000

A very neat solution to javascript validation..

"LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making
client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two
main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core
validation methods, which can also be used outside the context of
forms. Secondly, it provides your visitors with real-time validation
information as they fill out forms, helping them to get it right first
time, making the forms easier, quicker and less daunting to complete"

http://www.livevalidation.com/

jQuery Scripts

Todd Baker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:42:00 +0000

Ive been evaluating javascript libraries in order to settle on one for most of our future developement. In the end we decided on jQuery for a number of reasons but mainly due to the vast amount of scripts available for it. Im going to use this post to build up a collection of these.

IIS Gzip Compression

Todd Baker — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:09:00 +0000

With the great variety of Javascript libaries like prototype and jquerry that make javscript easier to code and maintain the main issue is do we want to dish up 100k+ of javascript to users when they first hit our sites. Sure, its cached but that initial download is usually the first impression users get from a site.

One method that takes the sting out of the size of these libraries is gzip compression. From all accounts its pretty easy on apache but untill now I hadn't found a method of doing so on IIS.

This post at Mike Grushin’s blog shows the steps required to get gzip compression it up and running on IIS 6.

Cool AJAX Tools

Todd Baker — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:40:00 +0000

There is a great article over at Smashing Magazine
that shows off some of the neat effects achievable with a
healthy dose of javascript and CSS.

Their older Ajax & CSS and Photo Gallery articles are also still quite relevant.