Waterfall Web » Blog Archive » The Yellow Fade Technique (YFT)

The Yellow Fade Technique (YFT)

March 9th 2006 in Coding, Design

Some time ago 37 Signals pioneered what they call the Yellow Fade Technique, or YFT. You might have seen it on Basecamp or Backpack.

Jamie asked me the other day if I knew how it was done. I had seen a tutorial for it before, but hadn’t bookmarked or blogged it! So after a few minutes of Googling a found a couple of possible how-tos:

The Yellow Fade Technique, Revisisted. I don’t know how or why this is better than the original. But it’s revisited, so it must be, I guess!
The Fade Anything Technique
And the find of the afternoon - script.aculo.us - this site has lots of goodies. Shall have to poke around here some more!

However, none of these were the original tutorial that I was looking for… :/

Tags: yellow fade technique | 37 signals | web 2.0 | javascript

Comments are closed.

Formatting for task descriptions

Thanks to Sawan for this suggestion - don’t know why nobody thought of this earlier

Anyway, have just finished integrating TinyMCE with task descriptions in NetOffice. So now you can add lists, include hyperlinks, stikeout previous instructions etc etc!

A couple of things have been changed:

Obviously, TinyMCE files need to be copied into your NetOffice installation.
We have [...]

Formatting for task descriptionsPrevious Entry

Crazy Egg - Another Web 2.0 Stats Pack

These things seem to be coming out of the woodwork - Crazy Egg is another invitation-only Web 2.0 stats pack.

Although it does look like it’s got an extra nice feature missing from others - a heat map showing where visitors are clicking. Nice touch.

Well, I’ve signed up for an invite. Will take it for a [...]

Crazy Egg - Another Web 2.0 Stats PackNext Entry