Supersonic Feet

At Gottabet we're looking for a 'web application designer' to join the team. The job entails a range of web dev, from helping design various sections/features of the website to implementing them in HTML and CSS. There's a full job spec on the website, so if you're a developer who's big on web standards looking for ...

Just spotted (via Simon Willison's blog) that Yahoo! has released an extension for Firebug, called YSlow. The extension adds more performance data to Firebug, grading various speed issues A-F like a school exam. It seems rather cool on a brief test, though one bit did immediately stand out as potentially bad advice: YSlow suggests you should ...

As I mentioned in my previous post, at work we're moving a lot of clients to new hosting. Due to a very silly system at the old hosts, that means we have to transfer the domain names to a new registrar as well as they won't let us just point at another host's servers. We're using ...

Philipp Lenssen just posted a nice short piece on how Google's homepage would stack up in filesize when written in XHTML Strict compared to its current invalid HTML, Google Strict vs. Google Deprecated. I have to second what he says - any argument for keeping deprecated code based on filesize is quite silly. Valid XHTML (almost?) ...

As part of my work at Net Effects, since Christmas last year I've been working on a new online shopping system wherever other client work allows. For a good few years, Net Effects have run an online shopping site called UK Shopability but when I joined the company last year they had already started getting a ...