Out of all the projects I’ve worked on both individual and group, the last and final step seems to be documentation. A lot of times it gets overlooked. When the deadlines approach the product manager wants to get a working product. What a lot of people don’t realize is software documentation takes a substantial amount of time to write. It is very important to keep track of the software. Marketing individuals won’t actually see changes in the product in the time it takes to write documentation and that seems to make it less important in the overall product.
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There’s a post on Creative Mac that I feel like I come across these situations everyday and if people knew these steps I think projects would be a lot smoother and work a lot better both for me and the client. It is collected from designers and developers of what they feel a client should know before starting a project.
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There was a post on Adomas Paltanavicius website giving a tutorial about mouse wheel programming in JavaScript. It is a pretty clever idea and doing more and more AJAX-like applications I can see this tutorial becoming more and more useful. At this time I never really thought about implementing code for the mouse wheel but in upcoming projects I think I will find this tutorial very helpful.
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The Sidejob has a redesign concept of the Myspace.com home page. In my opinion, the concept of Myspace is great. The actual coding of the site and reliability could be worked on. Of course I’ve never had to deal with a site as large as this, but I can still ask questions and maybe give some suggestions.
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There was an article on .net magazine giving 20 pretty good tips for web designers out there. It’s always a good idea to have a plan of action when doing something. If you can learn from other’s that’s even better. It will save you time and in the end that saves money. I’ll go over the 20 tips they provide and give some insight and experience I have had with each situation.
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The Vitamin has an article on the importance of maintainable JavaScript. Since I have been doing more and more AJAX web applications for clients this has becoming such an important point especially as web applications become larger and larger and more dependent on JavaScript to create its function.
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DHTML Goodies has a post on their site including code for a folder tree with drag and drop capabilities. It is actually a pretty creative script and works very well. It also has a demo and tutorial to implement it into your own site.
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There was a blog post on Blogger giving 10 tips for writing reusable code. For the most part I think that these tips can be applied to almost any coding language. If course some things might need to be varied.
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