Photo by s2photo With the economy reeling and VC’s spending less and less on startups, developers have had to adapt how they create sites. Because of the world’s economic state, we’ve had to change how we develop. Some may see this shift as a grim prospect. Change…

I’ve been noticing some buzz about the newly-launched photo sharing service DailyBooth , and can’t help but notice a trend that seems to happen with nearly every new web service. All newly-released websites seem to have an cycle of innovation that looks something like this: Release product to early adopters Early…

Photo by xyber matthew . With Thanksgiving only a couple days away, it’s appropriate to look back on the things that we appreciate best about our jobs. Let’s face it: Web Developers have the best jobs around, right? We’re incredibly lucky to have the professions we do. Here…

Photo by paulwoolrich . While more and more people are using faster Internet connections, there seems to be less emphasis by web developers on optimizing pages for faster load times. We’re seeing more and more widgets and javascript-heavy pages that take a long time to load, even on fast Internet connections. It’…

Photo by jstar . It appears that the glory days of the homepage are almost over. Jakob Nielsen has been finding that web users are becoming more and more fickle . Instead of going to the homepage and nosing around the site using categories and site searches, people are instead using Google to find everything and …