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When someone bookmarks a website to their homescreen, iOS creates an icon for it. The most direct way to accomodate this feature is to create a larger version of your favicon. iOS will look for one...

In April we launched CalmingManatee.com. The site features pictures of sea cows with inspirational captions presented in typical LOLcat-style. It started as a Friday afternoon joke sparked by a mis...

These are tools we use every day as developers. If you're a Mac-owning web developer, you should consider these apps for your toolkit.Adobe Shadow - Development toolWirelessly connect multiple iOS ...

"We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ...

Our friend and client Joe Reichert at Amlings Cycle told me this anecdote about pricing:A man comes in to a bike shop with a wobbly wheel, asking if it can be repaired. The bike mechanic looks at t...

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Do it right: Good enough isn't good enough.We often remind each other to "do it right." It's our motto, an ethos, and a motivational rallying cry among developers. Get it for your office and start ...

Source: Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point

When saving images for the web, we need to strike a balance between file size and quality. For most images, the above settings when used in Adobe Photoshop CS5 will yield excellent quality within m...

What features in Photoshop CS6 matter most to web designers? We downloaded the CS6 beta to find out. In addition to improved performance and a sleek new UI, we found some other gems in the CS6's li...

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You're receiving 300 unique visitor per day who view an average of six products per visit, but 99% of them never make it through your shopping cart. Sound familiar? It should.Most ecommerce sites h...

In 2010, mobile websites were a luxury. In 2012, they are a necessity. Here's why: 63% of US smartphone owners make purchases on their smartphones at least monthly [Source] Smartphone owners outnum...

I read the NYTimes piece "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" and was fasincated by people's reactions to Targets data mining practices. In our experience, businesses have the best intentions. They w...

Our own lead developer, Paul Reda, recently had success "going viral." On Thursday, he uploaded a timeline biography of 1900's  Chicago private investigator Cora M. Strayer. By Friday it had receiv...

I used to find Quality Scores on Google AdWords very frustrating. They never seemed to make sense. I got so frustrated that I suspended my Google AdWords campaign. When I did this, my AdWords rep c...

You already know how to design a beautiful website, but can you design a website that works? You'll be doing yourself and your clients a great favor by adding these books to your team's library:Des...

Imagine that you're a car dealer. A man pulls onto your lot driving a '78 Yugo with unpainted fiberglass, replacing the metal that has succumbed to rust. Vinyl racing stripes have been hastily appl...

Plants vs. Zombies: A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home. Use your arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants — peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more — to mulchify 26 types of ...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R.3261) and the Protect IP Act (S.968) threaten the Internet by forcing internet service providers to censor websites that don't do enough to police their users, essen...

Our Chief Software Engineer, Dave, was recently asked by a friend if she should choose Mac or PC for her next computer. He had this to say:Mac if you have any work to do, PC if you want to game, do...

A lion met a tiger As they drank beside a pool Said the tiger, “tell me why…You’re roaring like a fool.”“That’s not foolish;” said the lion, with a twinkle in his eyes, “They call me king of all th...

Louis Lazaris recently posted a list of skills and technologies that all front-end developers should know. However, if someone knew all 45 items on his list, they'd qualify as a highly-skilled soft...