24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head><script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/bundle-playback.js?v=HxkREWBo" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/wombat.js?v=txqj7nKC" charset="utf-8"></script> <script>window.RufflePlayer=window.RufflePlayer||{};window.RufflePlayer.config={"autoplay":"on","unmuteOverlay":"hidden"};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/ruffle/ruffle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> __wm.init("https://web.archive.org/web"); __wm.wombat("http://24ways.org/","20080516030538","https://web.archive.org/","web","/_static/", "1210907138"); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/banner-styles.css?v=S1zqJCYt" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/iconochive.css?v=3PDvdIFv" />  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent</title> <meta name="microid" content="0d91d1ddcd44d5dcd8c06fde77a94f6072b692b2"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/web/20080516030538cs_/http://24ways.org/inc/24ways07.css"/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="rss" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://feeds.feedburner.com/24ways"/> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538js_/http://stats.24ways.org/mint/?js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <div class="wrapper hfeed"> <div id="masthead"> <h1><a rel="home" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/">24 ways </a></h1> <p class="strapline">to impress your friends</p> </div> <div id="content" class="idx"> <ol> <li id="day24" class="hentry"> <h2><a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/performance-on-a-shoe-string" class="entry-title">Performance On A Shoe String</a></h2> <div class="entry-summary"><abbr class="updated" title="2007-12-24T00:00:04+00:00"><span class="abbr">24 December 2007: </span></abbr> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://allinthehead.com/">Drew McLellan</a> rounds off our series with a look at the challenges facing a site that needs to cope with occasional peaks in traffic without spending out on high-performance hosting that’s not needed for the majority of the time. Come behind the scenes at 24 ways and see how we keep the site online through the month of December each year. Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!</p></div> <p>Impress your friends with <a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/performance-on-a-shoe-string">your peak performance</a></p> </li> <li id="day23" class="hentry"> <h2><a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/a-gift-idea-for-your-users-respect-yo" class="entry-title">A Gift Idea For Your Users: Respect, Yo</a></h2> <div class="entry-summary"><abbr class="updated" title="2007-12-23T00:00:21+00:00"><span class="abbr">23 December 2007: </span></abbr> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://brianoberkirch.com/">Brian Oberkirch</a> gives a little respect back to his users, and suggests some way in which you might be able to do the same. Like a plate full of brussel sprouts, your users deserve a little respect, you can’t just rush in there. Not that I consider my users to be in any way like stupid old brussel sprouts. Oh no. What a mess. </p></div> <p>Impress your friends with <a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/a-gift-idea-for-your-users-respect-yo">your well respected users</a></p> </li> <li id="day22" class="hentry"> <h2><a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/how-media-studies-can-massage-your-message" class="entry-title">How Media Studies Can Massage Your Message</a></h2> <div class="entry-summary"><abbr class="updated" title="2007-12-22T00:00:09+00:00"><span class="abbr">22 December 2007: </span></abbr> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://molly.com/">Molly E. Holzschlag</a> discusses the importance of the medium to the message, and how a better understanding of the theory and just technique can help in developing our craft. After all, a piece of chocolate is a piece of chocolate. But press it into a coin and wrap it in golden foil, and that’s Christmas right there people.</p></div> <p>Impress your friends with <a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/how-media-studies-can-massage-your-message">your well-rooted craft</a></p> </li> <li id="day21" class="hentry"> <h2><a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/mobile-2.0" class="entry-title">Mobile 2.0</a></h2> <div class="entry-summary"><abbr class="updated" title="2007-12-21T00:00:12+00:00"><span class="abbr">21 December 2007: </span></abbr> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://blueflavor.com/pages/about/bios/brian_fling/">Brian Fling</a> offers his insight into the state of the mobile web as we hurtle towards 2008. Just as Web 2.0 taught us to rethink our assumptions about the web, Mobile 2.0 looks to do the same. There’s a little something to mull over as you munch your mince pies and move onto bottle of Sherry 2.0.</p></div> <p>Impress your friends with <a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/mobile-2.0">your on-the-go goodness</a></p> </li> <li id="day20" class="hentry"> <h2><a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/diagnostic-styling" class="entry-title">Diagnostic Styling</a></h2> <div class="entry-summary"><abbr class="updated" title="2007-12-20T00:00:14+00:00"><span class="abbr">20 December 2007: </span></abbr> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://meyerweb.com/">Eric Meyer</a> describes a technique for using <span class="caps">CSS</span> as a diagnostic tool for finding potential problems or issues within a page. Going beyond the styling for the delivery of a site, the use of <span class="caps">CSS</span> as an author-time development tool holds many possibilities. Now if only there was a selector to show me which presents I’ve forgotten to buy this year.</p></div> <p>Impress your friends with <a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/diagnostic-styling">your crazy diagnostic stylings</a></p> </li> <li id="day19" class="hentry"> <h2><a rel="bookmark" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://24ways.org/2007/christmas-is-in-the-air" class="entry-title">Christmas Is In The AIR</a></h2> <div class="entry-summary"><abbr class="updated" title="2007-12-19T00:00:25+00:00"><span class="abbr">19 December 2007: </span></abbr> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516030538/http://snook.ca/">Jonathan Snook</a> introduces us to the world of Adobe <span class="caps">AIR</span> and talks us through using standard web technologies such as <span class="caps">HTML</span>, <span c

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24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent