Future of Web Design London 2011
Slides
Available on Slideshare .Survey Data
The results from the survey I ran on Twitter, mentioned during the presentation, can be found here .
10 Development Concepts a Designer should know resources
Writing a brief
- How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen – a piece actually about hiring programmers but containing some excellent advice for getting your idea to something that can be quoted for.
- Six Revisions: 8 Tips on How To Manage Feature Creep
Consider Programming Constructs
- Dev.Opera: Programming, the real basics – using JavaScript and explaining the basics of programming. A useful read.
Source Control
- Webdesigner Depot: Intro to Git for Web Designers
- Think Vitamin: Subversion tutorial for designers
- Six Revisions: the ultimate guide to version control for designers
- Beanstalkapp
Professional development environments
- Virtual Machines for Developers – very useful post for Windows users on setting up Ubuntu VMs
- EasyPHP for Windows
- MAMP – if you work on lots of different sites I would recommend MAMP Pro to make it easy to set up vhosts.
- XAMPP – for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Drew McLellan: Stop building sites in subfolders
Code Re-Use
- Design Shack: 27 Utilities for Saving and Sharing Code Snippets
- Snipplr – the snippet site references in the presentation
Form Validation
E-commerce
- Smashing Magazine: Getting Started With E-Commerce: Your Options When Selling Online
- UX4.com: Shopping Carts + Check-out … There is often no big single problem, there are “just” a lot of little problems.
- Smashing Magazine: Fundamental Guidelines of e-commerce Checkout Design
- Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council
- PayPoint: Getting PCI Compliant – PayPoint is also my recommended UK PSP.
Hosting
- Choosing web hosting
- Reselling Webhosting to clients – some things to think about if your are considering doing this