December 22, 2011
If you’re a news blogger, the importance of staying up to date on breaking news is critical. Ever since I started covering more news-related events on my own blog, I realized how important it was to constantly monitor real-time news. Since I use two screens with my laptop, I realized that I could set up one screen to be exclusively for streaming incoming news.
October 7, 2011
I do quite a bit of Web development, and Google Chrome is my main browser these days. Chrome is pretty developer-friendly as it is, and you can also set up Firebug on Chrome. But today I wanted to show you a different Chrome extension called Pendule. Pendule supplements Chrome’s built-in Inspect Element feature with some interesting extras.
August 25, 2011
I maintain the CSS for a fairly complex website; my normal workflow is opening an SSH session with PuTTY and then editing the CSS within a remote instance of VIM. WebPutty from Fog Creek Software (Joel Spolsky’s company) offers a way to simplify this process and edit your CSS using the browser, with live preview [...]
August 17, 2011
Flash used to be the king of web animation, but now it’s been slowly abandoned because of the possible future ruler: a combination of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Even though Adobe is still strongly supporting Flash, it is also beginning to embrace the new alternative. The proof is Edge – the new multi-platform tool from Adobe.
June 19, 2011
CSS is absolutely one of the most important technologies around on the Internet today, and while most people admit to knowing a little HTML, we are generally clueless about CSS. Last time I introduced you to the absolute beginner steps required to learning how to style websites with CSS. Today I’d like to point you in the right direction for where to go next.
June 17, 2011
CSS is the single most important change webpages have seen in the last decade, and it paved the way for the separation of style and content. In the modern way, XHTML defines the semantic structure – the meaning and content of the webpage, while CSS concerns itself with the presentation. While most of us are comfortable writing a little HTML, we seem to think that CSS is some kind of black magic.
April 27, 2011
CSS3 (combined with the power of HTML5) is rapidly being supported by all the major browsers (read – anything except Internet Explorer), so I thought now would be a good time to see some of the incredible effects we can achieve using the power of your the browser and a little CSS code.
July 17, 2010
More and more people are turning towards coding as a profession/hobby. From freelancers to actual developers, everyone seems to have their foundations strong in at least one programming platform. However, more often than not, there seems to be a problem of actually finding good content online that can teach you to code. Experimenting with a [...]
June 21, 2010
Javascript image rollovers are used to bring interactivity to webpages. The use of the rollover is one of the most popular forms of Javascript on the web. Javascript rollovers (or mouse-over effects) are fairly common on today’s websites and can be used very creatively. You’ve seen them. Images that have been constructed this way change [...]
January 8, 2010
Are you a web designer? Do you have a need or urge to design your own website? Nowadays it is easier then ever with the plethora of FREE web page templates available to be downloaded, modified and uploaded to your own site! People would have loved these types of sites 10 years ago! Some of [...]
