Google is releasing an update to GPE that allows users to bring together two great platforms for development: Android and App Engine, which will allow developers to host their backend service and store their app data on Google's cloud service. Project Creation for App Engine-connected Android...
Websites can create small files/code on user's systems to remember user preferences--these pieces of code are commonly called cookies. Flash cookies (also known as Local Shared Objects) are a potential privacy concern for internet users even more than standard cookies. For one, Flash cookies cannot...
by Jonathan Franchell, CEO of Ironpaper - For more tips and hacks: Need to remove a new line after h1 tags? Both web designers and SEO practitioners need to employ headline tags: H1, H2, H3 in several ways to improve web page structure and tag content with varying degrees of importance. You may...
WC3 released an updated working draft to guide web designers with the use of HTML5 and some comparisons to the previous version of HTML. There are a number of new changes that greatly extends the language by introducing new, fancy features but also it drops some elements from the language...
For a long time web designers had to battle limited choice with typography and font usage for their creations. In order to make an accessible website, a designer was forced to limit their choice to a handfull of fonts--the other option was to make a lower utility site using images for text--not a...
Although it is possible to place style sheet links (links to CSS files) anywhere in the body of a web page, it is a best practice to place your style sheet link in the head area of the document. By placing the reference link in the head area, your web pages will appear to load faster because it...
Microdata has been a particular focus area of the HTML 5 development. Essentially, microdata ( is a meta data ) that allows designers to create annotations for content in formats that are machine-readable. Microdata contains name-value pairs grouped together and dubbed "items". Microdata items have...
Organizing and making data shareable, searchable and classifiable is in increasingly vital practice within the field of web design. Designers must understand that their art is more than the intersection of verbal and non-verbal communication but it is also a practice of communication to machines,...
If you love data, then you may be excited to learn about the integration of BigQuery with Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps Script. BigQuery is a web service that allows developers to conduct interactive analysis of huge data sets. The service also boasts scalability, speed, and simplicity....
Link relations is a way to explain why a resource is be linked to as well as build an understanding of the relationship between data. Common uses of link relations in web design are linking to a stylesheet, image or a javascript file. HTML5 expands the concept of link relations even further by...