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How to Slow Down Innovation ?

Wednesday Aug 27, 2008 · Categories: Resources.-

Let us make ours the words from Javier Cabrera from Emastudios.

"Lately I have seen a lot of web sites blog and online newspapers coming up with their own “iPhone version” of their business. They are everywhere. They usually start with an “i” so, if you were looking CSSMania's web site for the iPhone it could be something like “http://i.cssmania.com/” which takes my mind back to the old times when it should be “http://wap.cssmania.com/”. From my point of view, building a web site, blog or newspaper entirely from scratch for a particular device is like going back to 1995 when AvantGo ruled the world and the “Palms” where “so hot right now!”.

If you have an application like basecamp for example, it’s necessary to do the “iPhone version” but, that’s just because the application needs to be specially designed as an app for the iPhone. On the other hand, having a blog, a newspaper or any other web site in the iPhone version is like doing a wap version; useless. There is a huge market for wap, we all know that. But it takes back innovation like 10 years. The browser should adjust the site, not backwards. If you don’t agree, then I’m assuming you are one of the really happy designers or coders who laugh with joy every time you have to do an Internet Explorer version of your work.

Again, the browser should adjust the site, not backwards. In fact, Apple agrees with me. They have come up with Safari for the iPhone, an splendid piece of software that lets you see, AND READ a website like if you were looking it at your own home or work computer. It displays the same. It doesn’t change.

I believe Apple innovates. It’s just that people is used to have “an X version of my website for the X“. Fill the “X” with any new device that you can think off, yesterday Palm, recently cellphone, now, iPhone. We have arrived to the era we all have waited: finally, a portable device manufacturer comes up with software that can read our work the same way we intent to, without touching anything, without modifying one line of code; and what do we do? we keep living in the past.

Just let it go!"

We couldnt agree more with you, Javier.

Indian School Project Location

Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 · Categories: What's going on.-

Many of you probably have donated money for our Building a School In India Project back in December 2007. We thank you all again.

The guys from the NGO have sent us the final location photo for the school they will build with that money (8000$ aproximately is what a 600 square feet classroom costs, including built up area). As the donations were 11271$ (we did it 12000$) , with those 4000$ we can make 20 children a little bit "happier" during a year, so they will be able to attend to the school for "free" during a year (that means no extra "costs" for their families). And that's what we decided.

School will be located in the northern-eastern part of Bihar, and will be built in 3 months aproximately, most likely before the end of 2008. Above you can see the school's location.

More pics will come when construction begins.

Want to be an editor in CSSMania ?

Monday Aug 18, 2008 · Categories: What's going on.-

Ok, we want to do this fast. The faster, the better. So we took this text to use it in our killer CSSMania.

One of the things we would like to improve from now on is the number of articles published per week. Right now we are not posting more than 2-3 articles a month. To be honest, the only thing we are publishing is just Creme de la Creme posts (we didnt realized we did seventeen already) and useful info of what's going on in here.

In order to achieve such a goal we definitely need more (well, right now it is just me) volunteers willing to write with us. So, if you wrote one useful tutorial, a nice review, etc and you want to have it published on our site, don't hesitate to contact us. If you want to be an editor with us and feel you have the skills, the knowledge and you can write at least once a week something useful for our huge community, we are really open to your ideas. Feel like you can talk about one of the sites we consider the best of the month, once a month? Then we want you to write for us.

Are we paying? Yes we are, but we need to see first how you all are doing during at least a month. So, use our contact form, let us know what you can do, what you have done, talk to us about the weather, your city, yourself... whatever... we will for sure answer you.

Hurry UP! Summer Sales!

Thursday Aug 07, 2008 · Categories: What's going on.-

We know it is holidays time, but we know not all of us are enjoying them or we have already enjoyed them. Wanna have your banner displayed several million times a month? Are you a new advertiser in CSS Mania?. Let us know and we will do 20% on each of our advertising options if you purchase it before the 15th of August.

This is only applicable to new advertisers.

Photo credits: 8mobile

Creme de la Creme - July 2008

Monday Aug 04, 2008 · Categories: Creme de la Creme.-

In no particular order (except the alphabetical one), here is our top 10 selection for the month of July 2008. Enjoy. Btw, we are back from our holidays.

As you may be aware ... holidays

Wednesday Jul 16, 2008 · Categories: What's going on.-

We know there hasnt been updates since Sunday... but, that's cause we are on holidays. Our updating will be done once each 3 days. We keep on reading e-mails. Thanks for your understanding.

CSS Mania Server downtime

Tuesday Jul 08, 2008 · Categories: Development.-

We expect to have a 2 hours downtime on the 11th July at around 22:00PM (PDT). Don´t panic at that time. More info can be found here. Sorry for the problems this may cause to your daily CSS browsing.

// The happy CSSMania crew

Creme de la Creme - June 2008

Tuesday Jul 01, 2008 · Categories: Creme de la Creme.-

In no particular order (except the alphabetical one), here is our top 10 selection for the month of June 2008. Enjoy.

Best Screenshot of the year

Sunday Jun 29, 2008 · Categories: What's going on.-

No doubts, best screenshot of the year, below.

CSSMania.com partners with Eleven2.com

Thursday Jun 26, 2008 · Categories: Sponsors.-

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