Is the W3C HTML Validation Important any important these days? Many ask this question and they have the right to! Why? Well just have a look at some of the most popular websites out there such as Google and do a W3C validation check. You’ll be suprised to find that it does not validate!! Well the service is still important but I wouldn’t place too much importance on it. If your site doesn’t have any of the very major errors, then... (more...)
Will we ever have a standardised web browser?
Do you think a time will come where we will have a standardised web browser? I don’t mean the possibility of there being only one universal browser but the possibility of all browsers rendering web pages in the exact same manner! This is a dream to most web developers because most of their time is spent in making a website compatible with all browsers (especially Internet Explorer 6!!). There will probably not be a day where all browsers render... (more...)
Design for mobile compatibility
Many people desgin top notch ace websites out there and sped hundreds of hours behind them. Little do they realise that a lot of their effort and hard work is going to go to waste. One thing many designers and developers don’t look upon mobile as too important and don’t realise just how much people use mobiles. So when their flagship website and design goes live, a lot of the public will be disatisfied and move along quick as the will... (more...)
Is HTML 5 Something to Worry About
Is HTML 5 something you should worry about at this moment in time? Many people out there have spent years mastering HTML and web development and now with the introduction to HTML 5 and its near release, people are worried they may have wasted all their time. Well, let me tell you, it’s nothing to worry about at this moment. It will take a few years until lots of sites use HTML and in that time, skill and experience will be built naturally without... (more...)
Web Designer or Developer
Many people face the choice of specialising more into one field, Web Designer or Web Developer? I’m sure many of you also face this choice due to limited time to only go into one field but the question is which should you choose. Well, it entirely depends on you. you have to spend the same amount of time to master any one of the two. It would be best to research both filds and see which you already have some knowledge of. If you good at Mathematics,... (more...)
UK Digital Rights are going to be amended
Peter Mandelson is working on the proposal of the UK Digital Rights amendment plan after EU have agreed to change the famous Paragraph 183 to force cut-off’s to internet piracy offenders, who are abusing the usage rights by downloading illegal software, music and movies from the Internet. The only thing is that this won’t help music industry at all. It has been estimated that UK’s music industry looses around £200m pa. The cost... (more...)
Help yourself to find new music on the web!
Times when the word of mouth was the only way to get to know new bands and their music, fall in love with them and finally find some more are past. This long and unsure process of making new music discoveries is over. Let’s bring it on, Mr Internet. Today’s music industry relies so much on the Web that if somebody found a way to take it away from them they would loose incredible amount of customers and revenue. The easiness of posting... (more...)
Baseline CSS – a modern CSS framework for real designers
We have seen enormous amount of development frameworks, all of them are different, but the allow developers to take their job easy and provide base functions for them so they would not have to build them from scratch. Baseline is a design framework for CSS. It works in two ways to achieve its goals: it resets the browser stylesheets so there will be no surprises by having a completely differently looking website in all browsers. Second and the most... (more...)
Google brings Chrome to IE
Google is well known for its expansive development of new and unexpected ideas. This time Google developers decided to bring the compatibility with HTML5 and CSS3 to Internet Explorer. By installing a special third party plugin you can extend IE’s functionality and compatibility with new standards. The plugin brings the Chome’s engine to IE and even makes the JavaScript work a lot faster then before. The usage is simple. Google defined... (more...)
Opera Mini 5 beta released
Opera Mini has been growing steadily in popularity during last few months and now it has as well been voted as the best mobile browser. Opera Software in answer to this has released a long awaited beta of the newest version of Mini 5. By kicking up the number Opera boosted the usability and user experience of the browser. Now all-new Opera Mini 5 is more similar to its older sister, it has the upgraded SpeedDial which allows you to store the most... (more...)