Mostly I've been pointing out things that you can do with HTML, CSS, YouTube videos, jQuery, etc. But now I'd like to point out things you should NOT do. Some common mistakes in HTML, and next week I'll probably tackle CSS mistakes. In researching similar articles, I...
This is a continuation from last week's tutorial 5 URL Parameters to Improve Your YouTube Embedding – Part 1. Remember that I'm going to assume that you're using the embed URL format (http://www.youtube.com/v/Sla2VebjkQk), rather than the link format...
There are many benefits to using YouTube to embed videos. It speeds up user access to the video while reducing bandwidth consumption on your own hosting, and it's a widely familiar interface with many features built in. There are several ways to customize the behavior...
WordPress is a very popular blog management system, and with good reason. It's a well-documented and easy-to-use blog platform with thousands of plugins and themes, and best of all, it's free. But if you want your blog to stand out from the other over 60 million...
It's been a while since web designers were truly forced to use a small collection of fonts in order to have a fairly consistent experience, but too few designers have taken advantage of the numerous ways to provide custom fonts to their users. With that in mind, here...
jQuery is used by innumerable developers worldwide, and for good reason - it's an excellent way of increasing the productivity of your JavaScript development. As such, I've decided to outline a few of its most useful functions. Each heading also links to the...
In addition to understanding the languages and best practices, knowing what external tools are available is important for a developer. These are a few tools of which every web developer should be aware. They won't all apply to every project, but they should certainly...
The header, section, footer, and nav tags, along with several others, serve purely semantic purposes. Traditionally, the div tag most often served to divide up the page into its constituent parts. Like the div tag, these content-describing tags should visually be...
Search Engine Optimization can largely be broken down into two areas of effort – on-page and off-page. On-page SEO refers to the content of the individual HTML files that make up your site, and off-page SEO refers to external efforts, such as links to your pages from...
There are lots of new features in HTML5, but some elements from HTML4 have been changed or removed. So here are a few tips for changes you might need to make if you're upgrading. 1. The CENTER tag The center tag was deprecated in HTML4/XHTML, and not allowed in XHTML...
If I go to the homepage of a website on a computer with a fast connection, and after 5 seconds there are still large pieces of the page missing, something's wrong. So in the interest of making the internet a better place for all, especially those without...
We did a review on Windows Live Skydrive in October. One of the main features Microsoft offers is the ability to create, edit and store Office docs for free online via the browser. It also allows you to view the documents on your web-enabled mobile phone. As some of...