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How You Present a Website Matters
As web professionals, we always try to find creative ways to present web content in order to provide a more comfortable viewing experience. One of the more popular web features nowadays is to use custom web fonts on web site vs the good ole Arial, Verdana... However,...
What is OOCSS? (Object Oriented CSS)
Object Oriented CSS is a method of development as it pertains to the HTML and CSS relationships designed to reduce redundancy in CSS, primarily to make more manageable code. The idea is (basically) to take reused styles and assign them to individual classes, then the...
5 Free CSS Tools
We web developers and designers use a lot of tools to help us create compatible, well-built websites more easily and quickly. Today I'm sharing with you a few of the tools that I like, specifically those made to assist with CSS. 1. CSS Typeset This handy tool lets you...
A Look at Android Training
Did you know Google has a bunch of online tutorials on Android Development? These training courses, collectively called simply "Android Training," can be found at https://developer.android.com/training/index.html. These tutorials focus on a wide array of topics, from...
How to Simulate HTML5 and CSS3 Support
Eventually we'll see the day when we can purely use HTML5 and CSS3 and have no fear that anyone who actively browses the web will have such an ancient client that they can't see what we've intended. Unfortunately that day isn't today, so we still need to have options...
Ruby on Rails Compared to PHP
I've been using PHP for years. In some ways it's a messy language, but it gets the job done and is widely adapted in the web community. How about another programming language called, "Ruby on Rails"? Let's have a comparison between the two. For those not familiar with...
Google Analytics Advanced Segments
Do you engage in social media, add SEO-minded keywords to your website, advertise with AdWords, and post or comment on industry blogs or forums, and now you want to know which of your myriad online marketing efforts is producing the most effective results? Enter...
Matcha Design Honored with Seven 2011 International Davey Awards
Matcha Design, a Tulsa-based design agency, was awarded seven 2011 Davey Awards in the business-to-business magazine ad category, print category, online film, and video category as well as self-promotional website category. With over 4,000 entries from across the US...
HTML5 Video Tips
HTML5 has a lot of new features. One of the coolest but not often utilized is the newelement. It allows pages to embed video files without requiring the user to download a plugin. By default YouTube videos use HTML5 if the user's browser supports it, and use Flash...
About HTML Entities
If you're using special (non-Latin) characters in your pages or emails, you'll want to convert those characters to HTML Entities. This naturally raises a few questions. What are HTML Entities? Why does it matter? What will happen if I don't? How do I do it? If you...
Google Maps Adds Helicopter View
Out of all the various online services provided by Google, few have seen as many major updates as Maps. From in-browser Google Earth to public transportation and Walking directions to Live Traffic, and now 3D route preview, also known as Helicopter View. Paul Yang...
Using iPad as a Light Source for Photography
I've seen people on websites talking about using iPads as light for photography, and videos of people holding a panel of three iPads to illuminate a face to snap a portrait. Although the result is good, attaching several iPads to a rig can be quite complicated,...
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