Tag: design

  • Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation

    [[innerindex]] Introduction When designing web applications, icons and images are used to enhance the user experience, give visual cues, and simply look sexy. For complex web apps, the quantity and resulting latency of icons and images used can greatly impact page load times…and developers, in most cases, generally try to reduce page load time with…

  • Guest Lecture: Application Design with Databases

    I had the privilege of being a guest speaker at Plymouth State University’s Database Management class. The focus of the lecture was regarding Web Application Design and how it relates to database integration. Here are the slides that were handed out and for those curious, here’s the topics of discussion: Topics: My Background My Project…

  • The Ajax Experience: Leveraging Ajax for Enterprise Application Development

    [[innerindex]] Despite the fact that AJAX is making significant inroads within the Web 2.0 community, many enterprise applications still remain either traditional web or desktop applications. However, by effectively using AJAX, enterprises can develop compelling, innovative, and useful web based applications that increase employee productivity while retaining the manageability enjoyed by traditional web applications. This…

  • Site Redesign

    It was high time I re-design BorkWeb. I’ve been screwing around with this design for a few weeks now and I’ve finally got it working for go-live today :D I began construction on the site using LifeAfterCoffee’s Caffeine Theme. Jon did a great job in structuring the templates and a fairly solid CSS stylesheet. However,…

  • Slashdot Redesign

    Last month Slashdot held a very open-ended competition for a redesign of the long overdue layout. I had initially thought I’d enter but laziness took the best of me and I never completed my design. The winner was Alex Bendicken who created a pretty clean and snazzy design. CmdrTaco estimates that the new design will…

  • Writing Your Server-Side Ajax Handler

    [[innerindex]]In my recent post on ‘Ajax; Templating; and the Separation of Layout and Logic,’ I refer to an Ajax Handler that sits server side to handle Ajax calls. Some elaboration is in order. As I have stated in the past, I’m a huge fan of Prototype AND I choose PHP as my language of choice…so…