wordpress ecommerce plugin and framework.
The free bolt on e-Commerce Plugin is WordPress framework designed to help you sell online. We make setting up shop incredibly easy. Plus we’ve had over 500,000 downloads!
VideoPress is an upgrade that makes it easy to upload, embed, and share video on your WordPress blog or any site around the world, even in full HD.
via VideoPress — Quick and easy HD video sharing for WordPress.
Google Releases API for Cool Visualization of Data Mashups from Many Sources.
This is extremely cool and it reminds me of stuff mentioned on Star Trek. The ability to manage datasets that are huge and apply them to easy to read graphs is a huge boon for research and understanding. Enabling researchers access to tools like this make their lives easier because they dont have to have computer science degrees to make use of data from censuses or anything else, they simply plug in the spreadsheet of the relevant data and viola they have usable data.
A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials : Speckyboy Design Magazine.
This page has great example videos that show the possibilities of HTML5. He also shows how the code looks and explains what functions are used for.
HTTP Headers for Dummies | EDESIGNERZ.NET | Http, Browser, Headers, Header, Request.
If you ever wanted to know how HTTP works and what all happens between your browser client and the server you are contacting this is the article to read. Its fairly straightforward, although a bit dry in the middle.
http://9elements.com/io/?p=153
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5-video-codec-debate.ars
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-content/html-5-supersedes-web-forms-20-004054.php
http://www.slideshare.net/carsonified/the-future-of-html-5-by-bruce-lawson
I’ve listed 50 iPhone apps for all you web designers and developers which covers everything from color scheme creators and font manuals to FTP and SSH clients. Also keep in mind there are many more of the same type of app.
Everyone has been going on about how we should use CSS3 more and all of the possibilities and flexibility that come with it, but that we should still consider IE6 and other troubling browsers.
via How To Support Internet Explorer and Still Be Cutting Edge – Smashing Magazine.
Because I will not shut up about CSS3, this time I’ve decided to show you a little bit of the multi-column layout module. This module allows you to layout the content of an element in multiple columns, like flowing text on a newspaper-type layout.
via Web Designer Notebook » Remembering: The CSS3 Multi-Column Layout Module.
Adhering to standards and using public tools is incredibly important in that doing so allows for tools and information to evolve beyond its original vision or use. I have previously posted many links from top design sites that espouse the importance of this behavior and also lots of howtos and walkthroughs.
http://lordouroborus.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/34-cheat-sheets-for-web-designers-and-developers-web-and-designers-complete-resource-platform-for-web-designers-and-developers/
http://lordouroborus.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/zen-coding-a-speedy-way-to-write-htmlcss-code-smashing-magazine/
http://lordouroborus.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/poster-what-beautiful-html5-looks-like/
http://lordouroborus.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/great-web-design-resource-site/
http://lordouroborus.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/the-ultimate-guide-to-creating-a-design-and-converting-it-to-html-and-css/
The other great thing about using standards is that you can stand on the shoulders of giants. Not having to reinvent the wheel gives designers and creatives the time to invent new things and ideas. Work smarter, not harder. Dont we have enough to worry about and battle with daily without having to increase our stress and frustration?
With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, “WordPress is infinitely extensible” as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, well examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.
via 20+ Brand New and Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins – Nettuts+.
Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls.
via The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market – Times Online.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_Tutorial
“Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web. Ubiquity commands can do nearly anything. Ubiquity comes with a set of commands that make common Web tasks faster and easier. In this tutorial we’ll teach you how to use some of them. By the end of this tutorial you’ll be able to perform quick Wikipedia, Google, definition, and Yelp searches; add maps to your email; and translate a snippet of a web page, highlight a word, and then email it to a friend.”
