Posts tagged “web design”

In web design circles the little stacked three line graphic that you often see on websites to denote a clickable menu is usually called a hamburger (or just burger) icon. We call it that because it sort of looks like how a computer would display a minimalist hamburger. I adore that in the bottom navigation area of kottke.org, he has one that — instead of opening a menu, as you’d expect — takes you to an archive listing of all the posts he’s ever made referencing… hamburgers.

If your HTML form does not perform its submit action when I click the RETURN key, it is broken.

• “If a boot becomes the standard choice among war correspondents, I’m thinking it’s gotta be pretty damn good.” And now there is something else I want to buy. (A vortex cannon would be cool, too.)
• “Thousands of web designers make unforgivable spelling mistakes constantly.” Learning how to spell is actually quite easy. It’s amazing how many people think it’s perfectly acceptable to not know how to do it correctly.
• Your App’s Website Sucks should be required reading for everyone that makes any website, not just for app sites.
• The CEO of Woot! sent the world’s most awesome-packed email in the history of time to his employees to announce that Amazon had purchased them.
• Regardless of what you think, login is not a verb.
• TiPb has a stunningly complete list of every feature of the new iPhone.
• EDSBS presents A Journey Through College Football Dickdom

• General Stuff
  • I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
  • If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
  • “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
  • They’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.
  • Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
• Techie Stuff
  • It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
  • When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
  • WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
  • If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
  • Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?