Kaum beginnt der Referent damit, die projizierte Powerpoint-Folie vorzulesen, fallen wir in eine Vollstasis: Das Denken gefriert, der Körper geht in eine Art Winterschlaf-Modus über, sieht nur noch wach aus. Das ist kein subjektives Gefühl: Studien zeigen, dass Powerpoint das Verständnis lähmt.
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"Twitter, Facebook, Xing: Das Internet und seine Communities sind ein einziger Kindergarten, findet Peter Richter. Deshalb ist er ab sofort dabei. Als Kindergärtner."
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"What do college tuition increases, soccer games, institutionalized oppression, editorial cartoons, and a movie star's death have in common? They've all ignited riots in the past few years."
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"In CSS, you can assign styles to elements in 3 ways: either by a direct reference to an HTML tag, or by a class attribute, or finally, by the id attribute. Each of these approaches has it’s pros and cons, but in this article, I’ll highlight why you should avoid using styling by #id. In fact, you shouldn’t base your style design on id attributes at all."
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"The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project."
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"Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them."
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"As the recession continues, so do cutbacks. So, we’ve listed 20 of the better (and free) online reputation monitoring tools in order to help you engage with the onslaught of social media."
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"At Railsconf 2009 the guys over at Phusion released Rubystein, a Wolfenstein clone written in Ruby. I managed to track down Ninh Bui to give us a video walk through, and the following video was played at Railsconf before the Wednesday Keynote."
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"One page portfolio have become increasingly popular among graphic and web designers as a means to simply navagation by introducing their business and services, display contact information and showcase their work all on a one successful single page portfolio website."
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Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set: 1. No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client 2. Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market 3. Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases 4. Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text And now, after nearly a year of planning and research we believe that these requirements have been met.
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"Rant Alert: I am a fellow-designer who is tired of having to constantly fight the "designer stereotype" (I'll explain this term up ahead). This is a fair warning that I'm about to vent and it's just my opinion (this is the opinions section, after all)."
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I developed this “Website Development Questionnaire” in 2002. It is old, but it still serves me well, so I thought I would share. I don’t actually add the bold or italic sections below. Those were added here to help you understand the rationale for the questions: ...
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I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on. There have been times when I can’t imagine how we would have solved a particular problem without them. Yet there are also times when I’ve been completely exasperated at the amount of time and energy they’ve consumed, seemingly to very little reward. This frustration has forced me to change the way that I approach wireframes. And as my approach has changed, I’ve been able to extract more and more value from black key lines and grey boxes…
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via KaffDaddy: "Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms."
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Webmonkey needed a good way to time how fast a web page loads or to compare the load times of different browsers. You see, we have big thumbs and we keep messing up when we try our old-timey stopwatch. So we whipped up this code to start a timer when the browser starts and stops loading a web page.
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We have designed a basic set of desktop icons that follow the style guidelines. The set has been created as a proof of concept for the style, but works rather well as a replacement for the base theme under GNOME and KDE.
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