Adobe Systems, facing greater competition from Microsoft, is updating its Flash platform with new tools for building user interfaces for Web and enterprise applications.

Simple tips on making your HTML or Ajax application more accessible.

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message? Read in this article/

Agile methods aim to overcome usability barriers in traditional development, but pose new threats to user experience quality. By modifying Agile approaches, however, many companies have realized the benefits without the pain.

By default error 404 pages aren’t that helpful,wouldn’t it be great to display related information visitor might be interested or even redirecting them back to main page in a custom 404 page, here are 36 cool custom 404 pages just to inspire you

Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others.

Here we go guys we have some websites for you to increase your site statistics and submit your design news, We already post here in our blog about 15 sites to promote your website and now were posting another half of it. This websites help you boost your websites traffic so submit now and increase/promote your website.

The amount of Web Based Apps available are phenomenal, some we forget about…some we are glad we forgot about…others are handy to bookmark for another day… Anyway here are 74 Great Web Apps for Web Designers we have forgotten about.

You prefer CSS or Table based layouts?

I recently started using the tellurium framework for my functional testing. It is amazing, my tests do not contain any selenium code in them, all that is contained in small descriptive UI modules. If you have been following selenium, there has not been a major update in years, this is that update that you have always wanted to see.

In a usability test, representative users try to do typical tasks with the product, while observers, including the development staff, watch, listen, and take notes. The product can be a Web site, Web application, or any other product. It does not have to be a finished product. You should be testing prototypes from early paper-based stages through fully functional later stages.

You’ve built your software or website that performs its function well. You’ve fashioned it with a usable interface that is logical and easy to figure out. You’ve polished the aesthetic so it is enjoyable and satisfying to use. That’s it, you’re done — right? Not quite… because there is one more element you should consider. Responsiveness. How responsive is your interface and your app?

If you haven't seen Part 1 and Part 2 of this series I invite you to read those. I'm really excited about the amount of response I have received on these posts and I really think something good can come out of this. The only problem thus far is I have received an email from 1 person wanting to join the project. I can't do this alone and I can't do it with 2 people. For this to work I really need more participation on the actual project so if you would like to help in any way please send me a gmail address to gdboling AT you know the rest.

So I have been spending most of my evening trying to get drag and drop from a JTree to a JList to work with Java6's alleged "simpler D&D support". Simple is relative. I need to actually transfer the user object from the DefaultMutableTreeNode for my application to really work correctly so that meant providing my own TransferHandler and Transferable implementations.

PHP V5.3 is designed to prepare developers for PHP V6 when it comes by adding new features, cleaning up existing features by tweaking the functionality, fixing platform-specific issues, and deprecating old features that won't be in future versions of PHP. In this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series, discover the new features and see how they can be used in your Web application.

Checklist for before relaunching a bug-free, optimized website.

I’ve never been a big fan of widgets. Lots of bling bling for your sidebar might sound like a good idea at the time, but it just adds clutter, clutter, perhaps some functionality, and then some clutter. And it usually looks like crap.

Speed up development, reduce bandwidth, enhance user experience. This article gives a brief overview of JSF navigation, some of the problems, and potentially how to solve them by enabling bookmarkable, pretty URLs. Put simply… in my view, out of the box, JSF is a web framework designed for web-applications, not designed for web-sites.

Today I’ll share with you just a warm up – one of the first things I have implemented here at Avangate: Employing the Google Analytics code to track 404 error pages

Given the number of frameworks now available for rich Internet application (RIA), choosing the right one, if not the best one, can be a difficult decision. Inside RIA recently completed an online survey that asked Flex/ActionScript RIA developers about their preferred frameworks.

New CSS properties have enabled us with so many possibilities. Shadows and rounded corners are now possible in CSS3 but we have a problem, IE users do not see them. Should we use them anyway or should we implement longer CSS tricks to get those beautiful effects for IE users.

In Part 1 I introduced the need for a simple project to help demonstrate and teach Swing best practices. Today I want to talk about areas of focus or areas in Swing development where best practices actually lend a helping hand. How to create and add a JButton to a container is not what I think we need. How to best handle events for a JButton might be what we should focus on. Here is a (partial) list of areas in no particular order:

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

I don’t believe in adopting stuff just because, and outside of the iPod Touch I have (and I still can’t around to buying an iPhone), I use what works. That’s why I still don’t believe the hype of Web 2.0.

Okay, so after that snafu we had with the first go-round, we thought we would try and make it up to those developers who were a bit let down by the 7 Websites No Website Developer Should Be Without article that we put together, which may not have been as developer oriented as we had led people to believe. Though we are trying to repair the breach and so we’ve gone compiling once more for this new list of sites that we are more confident developers will appreciate.