August 1, 2012
If you want to learn how the web really works, you have to know a bit about the technologies that make the magic. Web literacy is one of the skills that almost compulsory for the digital age. You might not make the next great app, but it will just make you feel a little more confident. Plus, the web itself is a great place to learn about web technologies. It’s not drudgery either. Let Mozilla Webmaker prove the last two statements.
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July 20, 2012
If you're a coder who does web development, you know that you're always in your browser checking how things look or work. Because of this, it's incredibly useful for you to have coding tools which work from within your browser. In fact, considering how useful these tools are, you'll wonder how you ever got by without them.
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July 20, 2012
When you think of faked or edited screenshots, programs like Photoshop probably pop into your mind. I've never been very creative when it comes to design and graphical work, so that's nearly out of the question for me. If you're trying to swap faces in a picture, you'll need to learn how to use programs like that. If you're trying to do something like change the text in a Facebook conversation, there's no need. All you need is Firebug and a PrtScrn key.
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July 19, 2012
Websites are wondrous tools which convey all sorts of information and ideas. They have evolved quite a lot in merely 10 to 15 years, and they are now expected to be top-notch and beautifully designed. Of course, there are technologies that help us achieve this - hence the evolution - with CSS being the one mainly responsible for design and other aesthetic aspects of your site.
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June 19, 2012
Mozilla, the famed creators of the Firefox web browser, have just launched a new project designed to help individuals learn to create and build their own websites. The project is completely web-based, and it is designed to help users with writing basic code in both HTML and CSS. Thimble is part of Mozilla’s Webmaker Project, which is [...]
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April 3, 2012
Web designers have an almost impossible job. They need to come up with one design that pleases everyone. When talking about a service like Gmail, used by countless millions of people all over the world, you can really drop the "almost" part – it’s just impossible. Even if a redesign is well liked by most people, there will always be users who really don’t like the new look.
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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.
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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.
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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 [...]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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