Macaw, is the New Web design tool for Developers & Programmers…. Macaw is a browser based code savvy design tool for responsive design, and produces both semantic HTML and CSS… Co-creators Tom Giannattasio and...
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How to reduce 404 errors created by ++liker.profile_URL++
Are you getting lots of 404 errors in the log because of some urls having patterns like ” ++liker.profile_URL++ ” ? How to reduce 404 errors created by ++liker.profile_URL++ ? Here is the solution...
How Will I Make Money If I Give Away My Work?
A common response to opening up your portfolio of work – allowing it to be shared, and not plastering it with giant watermarks – is the concern that somehow this invites “stealing” it. Artists...
DRM: What It Is, And Why It Doesn’t Work
DRM (Digital Rights/Restrictions Management) is any technology that attempts to restrict the use and/or ownership of digital content. In its very broadest sense, a DRM solution may be as simple as using JavaScript to...
How To Talk To A Developer
As a fresh semester starts up for me teaching web development, now seems a good time to talk about communication. Communicating code and design problems is a skill, something that has to be learned...
Five Ways to Speed Up Page Response Times
It’s important for your website to load as fast as possible; users want to see your web pages quickly and if you can’t give them that – then they’ll go somewhere else. In this...
A List of Free Public CDNs for Web Developers
Website speed is crucial for developing the best user experience possible, because, well, no one likes to wait for web pages to load. One of the simplest ways for improving the performance of a...
Google Web Fonts – How to Use, Download and Sync
Typography is the key element in the design process. While designing a web page, business card, brochure or a news paper advertisement fonts and text style plays an important role to get user attention....
CSS Style Guide – Part 4
Specificity As we’ve seen, CSS isn’t the most friendly of languages: globally operating, very leaky, dependent on location, hard to encapsulate, based on inheritance… But! None of that even comes close to the horrors...
CSS Style Guide – Part 3
CSS Selectors Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, one of the most fundamental, critical aspects of writing maintainable and scalable CSS is selectors. Their specificity, their portability, and their reusability all have a direct impact on the...
