Written by Ethan Gardner Web Design
There are many reasons to monitor the performance of multiple Twitter accounts. If you maintain more than one site or blog, chances are you have multiple Twitter accounts that correspond to each contributing author, site, or product. Perhaps you want to keep tabs on how your account stacks up against your competitors. Having a birds’ eye view of how each account is performing can be a great time-saver, but unfortunately there is no easy way to keep track of how your accounts are engaging others.
Today, I’ll show you an easy way to create your own “dashboard” tool to get an at-a-glance view of multiple Twitter accounts using PHP and the Yahoo Query Language (YQL).
Read more: Create a Twitter Analytics Dashboard with YQL and PHP
Written by Ethan Gardner Web Design
With XML being published by nearly all dynamic websites, social media applications, APIs, and its many uses in enterprise-level content delivery systems, now is a great time to learn basic XSL. At its core, the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) provides a means of formatting XML documents to display in a different and often more practical fashion.
In the last post, I gave an overview of why you should use XSL. This is first in a series of three hands-on tutorials where we'll build on that knowledge and start using XSL in conjunction with XML to transform the result into HTML to display on a restaurant web site.
Read more: Design a Web-Friendly Restaurant Menu with XSL:Part One
Written by Ethan Gardner Web Design
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a powerful technology often treated like a misfit by the design community. The fact is XSL isn’t that difficult to learn, makes websites faster, offers many ways to format content, and makes working with XML data easy.
Many XSL tutorials are either too technical, make too many assumptions about prior knowledge of the technology, or don’t have an obvious practical application. In this introduction, I hope to change that by presenting a plain-language overview of XSL, how it differs from CSS, and lay the groundwork for a 3-part tutorial where we’ll use XSL in a real-world situation.
Read more: Using XSLT in Web Design: A Plain-Language Overview
Written by Ethan Gardner Web Design
To keep creative work from becoming homogenized, it is important to have discovery and research as part of the design process for each project. Generating fresh ideas can be challenging when you design all day, but as designers, we need to keep innovating to overcome the client’s marketing challenges.
For many people the first and only stop for design ideas are CSS galleries, but stepping outside the norm can deliver unique and original design results. In this post, we’ll look at how art and life experience can be adapted to produce two unique web design elements with a nature theme.
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