Some Articles on Wireframing

(This is much for web design perspective)

A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow-tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-wireframing/


Many more extension readings:

http://wireframes.tumblr.com/

The Importance Of Wireframes in Web Design and Tools to Create Wireframes

The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/07/15/the-importance-of-wireframes-in-web-design-and-9-tools-to-create-wireframes/

10 Excellent Tools for Creating Web Design Wireframes

http://webdesignledger.com/tools/10-excellent-tools-for-creating-web-design-wireframes

Some Sketches Samples:

http://www.behance.net/Thimel

Highlight Tools:

gomockingbird

https://gomockingbird.com/

no time limit trial with page linking ( limited to 10 pages at max. )

balsamiq

http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-web-demo/

single page no day limit trial, with more advanced options

Web Design Principles

8 Universal Web Design Principles You Should Know
http://conversionxl.com/8-universal-web-design-principles-you-should-to-know/


When talking about user friendliness( or more technically, human-computer interface HCI), most lecturers would include these basic principles as key points in their lecture notes. These concepts, although it could be sometimes frustrating to web developers for more work, make people gain much pleasant feeling from the website at first glance. This effort worth, although realizing it can be painful.


Featured:

TBC

lorem ipsum

Wondering what does "lorem ipsum" mean? It is some meaningless text invented for typesetting industry centuries ago. Nowadays web developers might use this as the random placeholder in their semi-products.

To conclude, lorem ipsum is a rubbish text but you might try to pronounce it out when you feel bored.

To get some random English paragraphs for your publishment, go for this one :

http://loremipsumtext.com/

Alternatively, to get some random Chinese paragraphs, see if this is useful enough :

http://www.richyli.com/tool/loremipsum/

Web cache setup + web directory listing + Bandwidth saving

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess file in Apache server

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Featured techniques:
2. Error Documents
8. Change your default directory page
9. Redirects
12. Prevent hot linking
13. Prevent directory listing



Extension reading - Hacks on directory listing

Beautifying directory listing by adding HEADER.html as Header and README.html as Footer

http://rebugged.com/how-to-geek-up-your-web-server/







Practical tips to save bandwidth and reduce server load

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/practical-tips-to-save-bandwidth-and-reduce-server-load

Featured techniques:

Smush It - for reducing img size w/o losing its quality




Awesome web tools to simplify front-end development

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/awesome-web-tools-to-simplify-front-end-development

Featured Tools:

Form builder - very easy for form creation
Mystic Paste - pasting code snippets easily to your blogs
Screenqueri.es - for testing responsive web display


CatsWhoCode got quite a lot of interesting posts about web development. Good to nav when have time.