Using Web Statistics to Make Informed Design Decisions

One of your worst nightmares as a web designer is getting caught up in a conversation where you’re trying to defend a design decision, and what you’re battling isn’t a rationed and informed perspective based on…

How to Select an Open Source Publishing Platform – Step 2: Determine Your Capacity for Internal Development Work

In the last post on selecting an open source publishing platform we offered a pretty simple tip to help you get started: take a look at the source code of other sites in your field and see what tools they’re using. Once you’ve figured that part out, the next step is to determine whether you [...]

Integrating AJAX/Dojo into the Zend MVC in 8 steps.

If you have been following the Zend Framework at all, you’ll know that Dojo has been selected as the UI library to be adopted into the Zend Framework. The question is what does this exactly mean?

Creating custom tooltips by extending Dojo’s Dijits – in 8 Steps

Tooltips are nice small additions that can improve the user experience. They are so common that Dojo and other javascript frameworks provide precanned ways of creating them.

How to Select an Open Source Publishing Platform – Step 1: Research Your Market

Over the last few years, open source web applications have gained real traction on the web. From individuals to small businesses, non-profit organizations to public institutions and large corporate agencies, all across the board a growing number of websites are using open source technologies to turn the gears.
But what works for one, won’t work for [...]