One thing you need in order to produce web apps independently is some appreciation for the basics of front-end design.  This is a great roundup — check it out.

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I’ve just pushed some major changes to my front end development guidelines to the public site. I spent a lot of time on this update, and it shows. I’ve added new content and improved old. I’ve ditched my own slap-dash styling in favour of the Twitter Bootstrap with some of my own personal tweaks. Be sure to check it out.

I’ve added some sections on:

• The importance of understanding the box model (CSS)
• Knowing when to float, and when to position (CSS)
• Generating unique IDs without timestamps (JS)
• Preserving middle mouse click functionality (UX)

I also:

• Made the website work without JavaScript enabled
• Cleaned up the overall design and interaction (Bootstrapped!)
• Re-wrote some content here and there
• Added pretty graphics to explanations
• Added some resources to the list

Basically, we’ve gone from this:

To this: