Announcement: Winners of 123ContactForm Subscriptions
We recently held a giveaway for five 1-year Platinum plan subscriptions to 123ContactForm, a top-notch web form and survey builder. In this post, you’ll find the five lucky Six Revisions readers who’ve won this awesome prize.
20 Free Online Tools for Website Speed Testing
We all should be aware by now that Internet users are impatient when it comes to waiting for a web page to load. Thus, your website’s performance and ability to render speedily is critical to its usability and, ultimately, its success.
In order to help you build faster websites and identify troublesome website performance bottlenecks, consider incorporating some of the following tools into your web development process.
Writing Better JavaScript with CoffeeScript: The Basics
I’m a huge fan of JavaScript. Its popularity has really surged in recent years with the advent of rich internet applications (RIAs), Ajax and web development libraries like jQuery that makes JavaScript more appealing and accessible to a broader audience.
However, that doesn’t mean the language is without its quirks, and often these can come from nowhere to bite you. There’s a long running joke about JavaScript’s good parts compared to its bad parts and how the language has many problems. In this multi-part guide, I’ll present you with a solution to most of these problems: CoffeeScript.
Quick Overview of User Experience for Web Designers
How many times have you been in the following situation? You just spent two weeks working on a design that you’re showing to a client. He likes it, but he wants to make a couple of changes that would take a couple more hours of work. Why? You don’t know.
He doesn’t know. Nobody knows. He just thinks that adding an embedded map on the right side of the web page is cool. He really likes his own idea and wants you to make the change, and you’re left with one of two options: make the client happy, or make users happy.
Firebug Guide for Web Designers
Firebug — an open source web development tool extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser — is incredibly powerful, with a wide range of super useful and practical features that would benefit any web designer or developer.
In fact, this browser extension (also available in other web browsers with limited functionality) is so useful and popular that it has browser extensions of its own.
Announcement: Winners of Squarespace Website Builder Subscriptions
We recently held a giveaway for three 1-year Advanced account subscriptions (worth $240 each) to Squarespace, a platform that will help you create a website. In this post, you will find out who the three lucky winners are!
Giveaway: 123ContactForm Web Form/Survey Builder Subscriptions
We’ve teamed up with 123ContactForm, a user-friendly and powerful web form/survey builder, to give away five annual subscriptions to their Platinum plan (worth $299.95). Read on to see how you can win one of these subscriptions.
