If you’re tired of using regular old lorem ipsum placeholder text, then Lorizzle is the TextMate bundle for you. Lorizzle allows you to add snippets of text based on “dialects” of lorem ipsum. The gangster dialect is from lorizzle.nl and the rest are generated from The Dialectizer. Download Lorizzle.tmbundle.zip, unzip it, and double-click the Lorizzle.tmbundle [...]
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Read MoreInteresting article from A List Apart about the misuse of sign-up forms. The bottom line: engage new users in your site BEFORE you ask them to enter their personal information.
Read MoreLooks like Dan Cederholm is re-designing the SimpleBits website again. As Cameron Moll wrote in the classic A List Apart article about website re-aligning, good designers don’t just re-design, they re-align their businesses in conjunction with a re-design. Re-design for the sake of changing your identity can be a cool gimmicky thing as well, as [...]
Read MoreIf you’re at all familiar with Shopify, you know that the one of it’s most inescapable flaws is that lack of ability to customize the check out pages. The lively discussion on the Shopify forum illustrates a lot of the opinions, and Shopify creator Tobias Lutke explains in a forum posting why the decision was [...]
Read MoreNice article from New York Times Technology News regarding small merchants gaining a larger presence online. Bust Out currently does quite a bit of work in this area, most recently with several Shopify implementations. Drop us a line if you need any help doing anything similar. Cheers!
Read MoreOne of the most common features of an Ajax-enabled application is a “loading” animated image. You know, like a spinny thing that tells the user that “something is happening so wait for a server response.” Creating animated GIFs is not hard, especially when using web imaging software like Adobe Fireworks. But it is time consuming [...]
Read MoreIf the title of this blog posting makes you cringe (as should anything with the words IE 5.5+, at least when it comes to web design), then check the TwinHelix solution. It exploits the non-standard implementation of CSS “behaviors” developed by Microsoft for the Internet Explorer browser. The fix is a simple, non-JavaScript solution for [...]
Read MoreA colleague of mine forward this site to me today: brainmind.com. We both agreed that it potentially wins the award for worst website. Obviously, the webmaster is not too concerned with information architecture, design, web standards, usability, or code optimization. The site was so bad I couldn’t stop looking at it, which maybe works in [...]
Read MoreIf you’re a web developer or even a web designer, there are three Firefox add-ons that you probably already use. If not, get them now and consider this your first step into smart web development. Web Developer by Chris Pederick Firebug by Joe Hewitt YSlow by Yahoo! Inc. Any other suggestions? What do you use?
Read MoreIcons can make your website look super cool when used properly. My preference is to use icons that are exactly 16 pixels by 16 pixels. That’s just about the height of a line of text so the images line up well with words. I am a huge fan of Mark James’s “Silk” icon set that [...]
Read MoreTime Magazine prematurely posted a list of the 50 best websites for 2007. I say prematurely for two reasons: 2007 is far from over Bust Out Solutions is still developing our niche social networking website that will launch later this year Either way, cast your vote. There are some good ones in the list for [...]
Read MoreSmashing Magazine has done it again, with an article that lists over eighty AJAX solutions that include widgets, tool sets, libraries, and effects. I know the list is a bit overwhelming, but if you’re a professional web programmer I recommend at least trying out 5-6 of the listed solutions. For a quick highlight list, just [...]
Read MoreIn my recent experience with designing business applications, there’s a natural tendency amongst many programmers to create complex user interfaces to solve complex business problems. The approach that I have been taking in designing applications is to start with the business problem, and, with my limited knowledge of how these businesses actually run, distill the [...]
Read MoreCongratulations to all the folks over at Shopify for being chosen as a finalist for the Webware 100 Awards. Based on our recent implementation experience, I think the distinction is well-deserved. We’ll be sure to cast our votes.
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