Adding some kind of graphical 3-D effect to a website is pretty neat if executed correctly and suits your site’s theme or content. But parallax scrolling has to be one of the more creative approaches to adding a third dimension and should add significant eye candy to just about any kind of website. A website with… Continue reading Top 3 Libraries for Parallax Scrolling
Bringing Stylish Font Designs to Your Website
In the early days of Web development, developers were pretty limited when it came to the choice of font for various elements of the site such as the body text and headings. The common workaround was to input the text in a graphics editor, set the desired font and save the text as an image… Continue reading Bringing Stylish Font Designs to Your Website
Developing Outside Mobile and the Web
If you are taking coding classes or doing your own research on development topics, you most probably have this big goal of making your first app for smartphones and tablets or a perhaps a new groundbreaking website. But attracting attention can prove to be difficult considering the vast number of active developers pumping out apps… Continue reading Developing Outside Mobile and the Web
Solving Your Color Problems with ColorZilla
Designing a website or website template from scratch means that you have to deal with color at some point. ColorZilla was designed to be that one simple tool that handles your color needs. Taking the form of an extension that is compatible with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers, ColorZilla is free, easy to install… Continue reading Solving Your Color Problems with ColorZilla
The Mobile Operating System for the Web Developer – iOS vs. Android
If you are interested to make apps for iOS and/or Android, the mobile device you should buy in order to get started should be pretty obvious. But for a more general platform like the Web, you need to take various things into consideration including the app ecosystem, unique features each mobile OS brings to the… Continue reading The Mobile Operating System for the Web Developer – iOS vs. Android
Improving Your Productivity with OS X Mavericks
OS X Mavericks is a great and free upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion as it comes with a couple of new apps along with some fine updates to existing ones on top of some performance improvements. Some of the new features can boost your productivity too. This should spell good news to active developers… Continue reading Improving Your Productivity with OS X Mavericks
Things You Can Stop Drawing Thanks to CSS3
Drawing graphics purely using HTML and CSS is nothing new. Try taking the Acid2 browser test launched way back in 2005 and you will get the idea. However, it takes a lot of complicated code to achieve an attractive visual worthy of replacing something you can easily draw using your favorite graphics application. But with… Continue reading Things You Can Stop Drawing Thanks to CSS3
Going Frugal with your Website’s Bandwidth
The dangers of going with an attractively cheap website hosting package often involves the bandwidth even if your provider claims you have “unlimited” bandwidth. Cheap web hosting packages involve the use of shared servers so you will still be spoiling the fun for other webmasters if your site isn’t so optimized and hogging more bandwidth… Continue reading Going Frugal with your Website’s Bandwidth
New SEO Habits You Must Develop
SEO techniques are not much of a secret nowadays; a simple search online will lead you to all sorts of guides. You might not even see the need to buy one of those premium ebooks which claim that they feature underground techniques used by the pros. However, many of these guides are outdated and a… Continue reading New SEO Habits You Must Develop
Evaluating the Usage of Forum Solutions
Setting up a website in a hosting provider is pretty simple nowadays thanks to all the CMS (Content Management System) solutions available. With a basic CMS platform, you can build your website module by module and commit as many edits and additions as you please. Of course, you can customize the look of your site… Continue reading Evaluating the Usage of Forum Solutions