Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers

Setting up a VPN server with Amazon EC2 is a great way to protect your privacy. You can turn the server on when you need it, shut it down when you dont. All your traffic will go through your VPN and go out on the internet from your EC2 box so that you are in a really secure environment.

I have only enabled the first four of these, but here are all hidden preferences for disabling animations I have found.

There are over 650 Google Fonts available for free. But, pairing typefaces isn’t easy and many of those fonts don’t work for typical websites. Part of the 25x52 initiative, this collaborative, ongoing project offers inspiration for using Google’s font library.

An initiative to launch 25 projects in 52 weeks

In this lesson, we’ll review the essential traits of a good body text typeface: sturdy shapes, even color, and an active texture.

Давным давно (летом 2014), когда я усиленно работал с оформлением, передо мной возникла следующая проблема. Я хотел использовать CSS3 для создания эффекта прыгающего мячика с учетом естественных законов физики. Я прошерстил Интернет в поисках какого-нибудь способа, чтобы «вдохнуть» гравитацию в мой мячик.

В этой подборке я хочу поделиться информационными ресурсами, где можно почерпать новые знания, отследить новые методы, техники и аналитку, а также улучшить свои навыки в области UX. Полезно будет не только специалистам из области юзабилити, а также всем кто имеет отношение к разработке веб-продуктов.

This is the first in a series of articles showing native JavaScript equivalents of common jQuery methods. While you might wish to wrap some of these in shorter alias-like functions, you certainly don’t need to create your own jQuery-like libraries.

April will see me blogging about a small but important piece of the puzzle that is the future of news: the information architecture behind a good news website. Each of the four-and-a-half parts will…

In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.

jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat. Full credits for the Face detection algorithm go to Liu Liu.

Every website needs an audience. And every audience needs a goal. Advocating for end-user needs is the very foundation of the user experience disciplines. We make websites for real people. Those real people are able to do real things. Everyone is happy. But, it’s not really that easy, is it? via Pocket

History and structure of human computer interaction

Я решил протестировать все батарейки АА и ААА, которые удастся найти в Москве. Я собрал 58 видов батареек АА и 35 видов ААА. Всего было протестировано 255 батареек — 170 АА и 85 ААА.

You can do this with a filter, but you have to do something you generally should not do-- echo content from a filter.

Improving the User Experience