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Re: Want to move fast? Just do this

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Post by swanson »

sunjain wrote: post #2

I liked it. Lot of folks may already know some or most of this. But it is distilled all in once place, and as the post mentions, it will surely help in quickly moving forward with a polished looking app.

I agree, there wasn't anything groundbreaking, but I definitely bookmarked the page halfway through.

Re: Want to move fast? Just do this

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Post by notahacker »

This is excellent, very practical advice.

The one caveat I would add which the author glosses over is Test in IE as a high priority unless you have a very tech-savvy audience. Compass/Blueprint abstract away most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks and I agree that IE users can live without gradients and rounded corners. But if the site looks awkward without the CSS3 tricks that don't work on the browser that >60% of your audience uses, you're going to need to tweak that aspect as well .

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Post by rimantas »

notahacker wrote: post #4

This is excellent, very practical advice. The one caveat I would add which the author glosses over is Test in IE as a high priority unless you have a very tech-savvy audience. Compass/Blueprint abstract away most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks and I agree that IE users can live without gradients and rounded corners. But if the site looks awkward without the CSS3 tricks that don't work on the browser that >60% of y…

  > most of the uglier CSS box-model hacks
Wait, does someone still develop for IE5? Otherwise there is no need for any box-model hacks.

Re: Want to move fast? Just do this

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Post by tomkarlo »

This is a good article, if for nothing else besides that button gem which I somehow haven't heard of before.

The downside is, there will be a bunch of sites that look the same, so folks will want to do some real work and find their own components.

Re: Want to move fast? Just do this

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Post by simplify »

Relating to Haml/Sass, you may have heard of the ruby gem StaticMatic. It's a great tool that lets you use Haml/Sass to building quick, static prototypes.

In fact, I loved the concept so much that I began improving upon it myself[1], adding support for CoffeeScript and Amazon S3. For anyone who might find it useful, any testing or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[1] https://github.com/mindeavor/staticmatic2

Re: Want to move fast? Just do this

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Post by _Lemon_ »

tomkarlo wrote: post #7

This is a good article, if for nothing else besides that button gem which I somehow haven't heard of before. The downside is, there will be a bunch of sites that look the same, so folks will want to do some real work and find their own components.

I'd contest that it would only matter if you're the same as everyone else if it's contrary to your goal(s). What is your goal? For most it would be to get users to purchase something (aka, make money).

There's the other upside that if your website isn't radically different from others, a lot of your users will already know how to use it. There could be a lot to gain with a lot of your visitors knowing how to extract information from it.

I guess the only real way to know is by testing!

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