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Ten Web Development Tips I Wish I’d Known Two Years Ago
1. Use a Reset Stylesheet
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- Here’s a few examples:
  
  Eric Meyer
  Yahoo!
  Crucial
- 2. Use a Browser Development Plug-In
- Firebug - plug-in for Firefox. This is an absolutely fantastic and invaluable tool for web development.
  Yahoo!’s YSlow - plug-in for the Firebug plug-in. Analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow.
- 3. Learn JavaScript
- 4. Pick a JavaScript Framework, and Learn It
- Here’s a few links to some major frameworks:
  
  jQuery
  MooTools
  Prototype
  YUI
  script.aculo.us
- 5. Learn Photoshop
- 6. Use Semantic HTML - And No Cutting Corners
- 7. Find Out Why It Doesn’t Work - Don’t Shotgun-Debug
- 9. Don’t Be Afraid of AJAX
- Your Thoughts?
- IMHO, Inkscape or Fireworks are much better options when its up to web design.
- the advice here doesn’t seem to me to be how to make websites in ways that make you happy, it’s how to do commercially viable web development. And in that case, unfortunately perhaps, I believe you have to use industry standards. Like it or not Photoshop is the industry standard for graphic design, be it for a photo project, a web page, or any of the multitude of other computer based design projects it’s suitable for.
  
  I’m not saying that you can’t use Gimp for your own projects or quick and dirty ones. It’s a good idea to have skills in multiple programs. But what happens if a customer has existing PSD originals, or 6 months later decides they want to buy the originals from you. Yes Gimp can import and export PSD’s but it’s not a flawless conversion and it most certainly doesn’t have the version compatibility that an original Adobe file would have.
- 14. Stop integrating CSS hacks. Build separate CSS pages for the browsers and use conditional loading. This is much easier for testing and subsequent maintenance. And it’s better organized. All your IE6 styles in one place.
- I would also like to add broken link checker http://validator.w3.org/checklink and http://www.dead-links.com/
- What goes for JS also goes for the server-side.
  
  Learn and use a framework rather than re-inventing the wheel for common tasks like database connections, sending emails accessing webservices etc..
  
  There are numerous and they are usually free, e.g.
  
  Zend Framework
  
  Symphony
  
  CakePHP
  
  CodeIgniter
  
  Ruby on Rails

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Re: RAW or Jpeg
These links should help:

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/raw-vs-jpeg/

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm

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How to Reduce Camera Shake - 6 Techniques
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21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know
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There is no such thing as the ‘perfect’ histogram - different subjects and photographic styles will produce different results

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If you do shoot in Raw, your computer rather than the camera will process the data and generate an image file form it. Guess which has more processing power: your digital camera or your computer? Shooting in Raw will give you much more control over how your image looks and even be able to correct several sins you may have committed when you took the photograph, such as the exposure.
When you load a Raw file using Adobe Photoshop CS2 the Camera Raw dialog will automatically pop up. Most of the time the automatic settings are fairly decent, but you have the chance to change the white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation, and even calibration of the red, green, and blue guns or correct for lens abberation - all lossless.
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- If the white balance is off I have found that it is much easier to fix using the Camera Raw screen than loading the JPEG and manipulating that - the end result is much better as well. The richness, detail (sharpness), color range and ability to adjust these settings end up being so much greater with a Raw file
- Part of the conversion to JPEG are sharpening algorithms and as a result, the unprocessed Raw file is less sharp. Two things can affect this, one is the brand of camera
- and the other factor is the user settings for sharpening in the camera. Loading a Raw file in a program such as Adobe Photoshop CS2 will automatically apply white balance, sharpening, constrast, brightness, etc… and can even batch process Raw files. I often use this feature as a first pass and then go back and adjust the settings if needed. This is espeacially helpful because even if I did everything correct in camera when I took the photo and my conversion software was able to use the full processing power of my desktop computer, the conversion to JPEG could still trick the camera or my computer and only my eye can produce the correct while balance, constast, brightness, etc…
- Some people will also convert their proprietary Raw files (with extensions like .CRW, .CR2, .NEF, etc..) into the Adobe digital negative format (.DNG) to make sure those files will be readable in the far flung future.
- When it comes to your photography, however, you are the ultimate decision maker on what is best. I recommend that, if you haven’t, you play with the Raw format. You certainly won’t harm yourself or your camera. In fact, a great test is to go out just to shoot somehting (even just in the backyard or around the block). Shoot several photographs under various lighting conditions using the Raw + JPEG setting on your DSLR (if it has that capability). Take them back to your computer and compare after processing the Raw files. Take into consideration your time in doing so and see if the gain is worth your extra time.

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you can’t write about things you don’t care about
Organizing the ideas we do have (when we have too many) and finding new ideas (when we have too few) helps us break through “writer’s block.”
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- Learn by copying. Hunter S. Thompson used to re-type the work of Hemingway in order to get a feel for great writing. Weinberg suggests doing something similar: copy samples of what we think of as great writing, and then reflect on the process.
- Imitation is bad style, but a writer who steals from and improves on others’ work is advancing the craft
- Just get it on paper already. It won’t be perfect. Nothing is, and nothing ever will be. However, an idea that is written down is much closer to perfection–or at least completion–than one that isn’t.
- Be merciless with revisions and criticism, but know when to stop

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The power consumption of today's graphics cards has increased a lot. The top models demand between 110 and 270 watts from the power supply; in fact, a powerful graphics card under full load requires as much power as the rest of the components of a PC system combined.
The most important questions are: how many watts should the power supply have, does it deliver enough amps, and which plugs or adapters are necessary for the supply?

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If the power supply in this example has an efficiency of 85%, this means 15% of the power taken from the outlet is wasted. So while we use 500 watts, the power meter shows 588 watts (since 588 * 85% = 500). These additional watts of power must not be included in the power supply choice; they are only relevant to the electricity cost.

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Ideally, you’re not going to get close to the absolute limit of the power supply under constant load; the optimal range lies between 65% and 85% load

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Even Europe's own leading copyright experts say the Commission misleads the Council and Parliament. MEPs have still not heard how it would cost European consumers billions, but pay most eligible musicians less than thirty Euros a year, with most of the profits returning to the major music labels. Nor have they investigated its damage to a robust public domain and democratic access to cultural heritage.

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if one wants to archive the *original*, then that is the CR2 or NEF, as it came out of the camera
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- Archive always the *orginal* (in this case the CR2). Note, that DPP is very good for previewing, but if you make any trial adjustments, it wants to change the CR2 file. Do not allow DPP saving any changes before your archived the original.
- I will save all my RAW images as they upload to my hard drive, completely unchanged and unprocessed.(Also copy them as a backup on an external hard drive
- Some people advocate archiving the original raw files and then creating DNG copies on which to do all of their editing. Others have indicated that they convert to DNG and then discard the original raw images. Unfortunately, there isn't a right or wrong choice here. You have to decide what you are comfortable with, and then stick with it.
- One of the reasons I like working with DNG is that when I'm using Photoshop/ACR I don't have to worry about all of the XMP sidecar files. I know they don't take up a lot of room. I just personally prefer not to have to worry about them. With DNG files all of that information is stored in the header section of the DNG file.
- one of the major reasons for keeping the original files is to enable you to work on them with proprietary software provided by the camera manufacturer. That software is not going to recognize DNG files.
- DNGs continue to take significantly longer to open than raw files
  I guess your original raw files are not compressed. The compression adopted in DNG is very processor intensive; people often do not want to believe, that the required computing time is more than reading the longer data takes.

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I did not expect such a debate, but it has been extremely enlightening and I think all you guys are amazing.It is so good to be able to get such informed comments on items like this. Anyway, I have made one decision as a result of all this and that is that I will be leaving my files in their unprocessed RAW state and not converting them to DNG. It seems there is no real reason to convert and I don't have to worry about all the technical stuff. Good chance that if, in the distant future, my RAW files are no longer able to be read by any software, I will have some warning and an opportunity to convert them to whatever is the go at the time. Chances are there will be even better options by then.

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