Mário Andrade Web Design, CSS, HTML, Information Architecture

27Jan/100

Collaborative Sketching & Prototyping done right

During late 2009 and now early in 2010 wireframing and prototyping have been a big subject on the part of creating and developing software. I’ve writen about website wireframes in the past sharing reasons, examples and tools about the subject.
Recently I’ve noticed that there’s been allot of interest and articles about collaborative wire-framing.

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22Jan/100

Greenshot

Today I came across a curious little application for Windows called Greenshot, a screenshot tool that I fall inlove with at first sight.

If you take screenshots regularly you know that Windows lacks on support for this. You can take screenshots of the whole screen or just the active window (alt+print scr) but you still need a place to paste and edit the image. Besides Macintosh users have the advantage that their operating system allows them to select what parts of your screen you want to take the screenshot from.

Fortunately there’s still hope for Windows users.

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9Jan/100

Learning HTML5 and CSS3

Earlier today I steped into a Slideshare presentation called Up to Speed on HTML 5 and CSS 3 which I find to be very useful for who’s trying to step in HTML 5 and CSS 3 grounds. This presentation was created by Michael Jackson Wilkinson and Jason Garber. Very nice reading for a weekend afternoon.

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3Jan/100

E-mail spam filter with jQuery

One practice I find important to incorporate in all web projects is protecting emails on the website from possible spammers but still allowing humans to view it and understand they are looking at an email and without removing it’s functionality if it’s an email link. Email spam filter services are increasing and becoming a very lucrative market, especially in the corporate world.

Spammers use automatic spiders to crawl web pages in order to find emails and gathering them on monstrous databases to be sell all over the world. Luckily for the developers the fact that they use automatic robots means you can trick them into not finding the email pattern on web pages.

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