Ricky Onsman

Ricky Onsman

Ricky Onsman is an Australian freelance web designer and jack of all trades. With a background in information and content services, he built his first website in 1994 for a disability information service and has been messing about on the Web ever since. He is the President of the Web Industry Professionals Association.

Ricky Onsman

jQuery: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition - New Kicks and Tricks
If you haven't yet downloaded the free sample chapter of Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie's latest magnum opus for SitePoint,... Read More
 
html5webcamp
If you missed November's live streaming of the Microsoft HTML5 Web Camp held in Mountain View, California, we can now provide recorded video of the sessions. Read More
 
survey
Q: Could completing the annual SitePoint Survey really give you a chance to win an iPad 2™? A: Yes, but you’d do it anyway, wouldn’t you?Read More
 
W3C Conference
SitePoint will be making a video available here of the W3C's first ever conference. If you develop or design using web standards and HTML5, this is a must-see event.Read More
 

RIP Steve Jobs

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stevejobs
Everyone at the SitePoint network extends their deepest condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and admirers of Steve Jobs, who died October 5, 2011 following years of battling cancer.Read More
 
heroku
Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku this morning announced a breakthrough partnership with Facebook that allows anyone with a Heroku account to become a cloud-based Facebook app developer. Read More
 
ie_pin
A feature that is new to Internet Explorer 9 is the ability to pin a website to the taskbar, start menu, or desktop. Ricky Onsman gets... Read More
 
feature
Ricky Onsman takes another look at WebMatrix to see what the Web App Gallery has to offer in the way of Content Management Systems. Along the way, he finds that Microsoft’s attitudes are changing.Read More
 
 

A Gallery of Web Apps

By | | Web Tech

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WebMatrix
Ricky takes WebMatrix for a spin, building an ecommerce site using nopCommerce from Microsoft's Web App Gallery. How does it look?Read More
 
WebMatrix
In July this year, Microsoft released a beta of WebMatrix, a suite of tools intended to make web development accessible to people who don’t necessarily have much experience or technical skill. To... Read More
 
Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 On 17 November, Microsoft announced the availability of Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7. In conjunction with the release of Platform Preview 7, Microsoft... Read More

Beauty of the Web?

By | | Web Tech

408-ie9-review
Ricky takes a brief tour through the beautiful new world of Internet Explorer 9, and provides an opportunity to test yourself on its merits with our quiz.Read More