Tag Archives: web design

Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck

More websites are now using jQuery than flash http://appendto.com/jquery-overtakes-flash

jQuery is an amazing tool that’s made JavaScript accessible to developers and designers of all levels of experience. However, as Spiderman taught us, “with great power comes great responsibility.” The unfortunate downside to jQuery is that while it makes it easy to write JavaScript, it makes it easy to write really really f*&#ing bad JavaScript. Scripts that slow down page load, unresponsive user interfaces, and spaghetti code knotted so deep that it should come with a bottle of whiskey for the next sucker developer that has to work on it.

The whole article is at http://24ways.org/2011/your-jquery-now-with-less-suck

Web Design Patterns

Here is a nice article for Web Design patterns : http://developer.fellowshipone.com/patterns/

The primary benefit of using design patterns is that we are not constantly re-inventing the wheel when coming up with the general functionality of a site or web application. Another benefit is that these design patters often mirror or mimic other similar functionality found throughout the rest of the Internet. This allows users to feel more comfortable and familiar with a web application, rather than having to learn a foreign system.

Design patterns can help applications be understood quicker. They can be thought of in terms of various automobiles. Though they differ, the steering wheel and pedals are readily familiar to any licensed driver.