“Genius,” Thomas Edison once said, “is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” While we can’t help with the latter, one way to oil your creative gears is to maintain a collection of inspiring design. Join Matthew Smith on a scientific journey of discovery—all for the sake of a simple navigation bar. Read more
Whether you’re a multi-million pageview behemoth or a much smaller site, you can speed up your website by offloading some of the hosting to a different domain. But who needs the hassle of setting all that up, when you can use Amazon’s infrastructure instead? Craig Noeldner and Mike Culver walk us through the process of setting up and configuring your own little piece of Amazon S3. Read more
There isn’t much that all-round web expert, Garrett Dimon, doesn’t know about the unique challenges of designing and developing for the web. This week he turns his attention to the ubiquitous web form, and demonstrates the do’s and dont’s of effective form design. (No international auction sites were harmed during the making of this article.) Read more
It’s a change of pace this week for Digital Web, as we turn away from web design for a relaxing look at the world of copyright law and take-down notices. Attorney Gregory Rutchik lays down the law (see what I did there?) on what to do when you give—or receive—a DMCA take-down. Read more
The abundance of JavaScript libraries available to developers can be both a blessing and a curse: it’s great to have variety, but how do you know which one to choose for which purpose? The venerable Jonathan Snook makes it look easy with an excerpt from his upcoming book, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries. Read more
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