Tag: web development
All the articles with the tag "web development".
Photo post: Dribbbling away: WestMill Capital news listing
A news listing design from the WestMill Capital web project, shared on Dribbble.
Photo post: Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview
The third Internet Explorer 10 platform preview, released alongside the Windows Developer Preview.
Photo post: Adaptive Images
Deliver small images to small devices. Automatically adapts your existing HTML images for mobile devices. No mark-up changes needed. Just drop it in and forget about it. Why? Because your site is being increasingly viewed on smaller, slower, low bandwidth devices.
Link post: Avoiding common HTML5 mistakes
A practical guide to common HTML5 markup errors, including unnecessary attributes, incorrect content models, and misuse of new semantic elements.
Photo post: How to Provide Different Color Schemes for Your WordPress Theme
We’ve covered how to add a new color scheme to Twenty Eleven by child theming it in a previous post, and today I’ll show you how to create color schemes for your own theme, and have other developers take advantage of that to add their own new colors by child theming yours.
Photo post: Geolocation and Alternate Style Sheets, Part 2
At long last, here is part 2 and here be geolocation! Aside from the geolocation API, we will talk about Web Storage (namely: localStorage) and a wee bit of jQuery for a quick AJAX call & fading effects.
Photo post: Geolocation and Alternate Style Sheets, Part 1
Part 1 of a two-part article covering HTML and CSS, setting up an idea to locate visitors with the geolocation API and darken a page's styling around sunrise and sunset.
Photo post: Modern Debugging Tips and Tricks
With the rise of mobile devices, web development and debugging is more complex than ever. We have more browsers and platforms to support. We have more screen sizes and resolutions. And we’re building in-browser applications instead of the flat, brochure-ware sites of yore.
Link post: WordPress SEO Theme Guidelines
It seems every premium WordPress theme these days calls itself “SEO-friendly”. They’re usually not. So, I thought I’d lay down some WordPress SEO theme rules and guidelines.
Link post: Where are my rounded corners?
Do you struggle to explain or understand why a website looks different in different browsers? If so, I might just be able to help.
Link post: Fixing IE9 @font-face Problems
Fontspring explains how to solve the compatibility problems its @font-face syntax encountered in Internet Explorer 9.
Link post: Audio Sprites with HTML5
Stoyan Stefanov combines several sounds into one file and uses the HTML5 audio API to play selected segments, reducing separate HTTP requests.
Link post: Roots for WordPress Development
Roots introduced a cleaner WordPress starter theme and grew into an open-source toolset for structured, modern WordPress development.
Link post: Syncing Content With HTML5 Video
One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few boundaries browsers had been confined to. HTML5 promotes multimedia with richly specified video and audio elements and JavaScript APIs.
Link post: Life Beyond HTTP/1.1: Google’s SPDY
Ilya Grigorik examines Google’s SPDY protocol, its approach to multiplexing and compression, and its influence on the web beyond HTTP/1.1.