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Increase site speed will improve your Google page ranking

Increase site speed will improve your Google page ranking

Posted 04 July 2010 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.
Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don’t just improve user [...]

HTML5 and CSS3 feature-detection with Modernizr library

HTML5 and CSS3 feature-detection with Modernizr library

Posted 04 July 2010 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Ten years ago, only the most cutting-edge web designers used CSS for layouts and styling. Browser support for CSS layouts was slim and buggy, so these people advocated for web standards adherence, while creating hacks that made CSS layouts work in all browsers. One hack that became widely used was browser sniffing: Detecting which browser [...]

Great CSS3 and HTML5 Resources

Great CSS3 and HTML5 Resources

Posted 07 April 2010 | By Vidal | Categories: CSS | 1 Comment

In this “Collection of HTML5 and CSS3 Resources“, you will find articles and tutorials covered on different websites. Demos and examples are also included in this list. I tried my best to collect all useful and related information to put at one place. Still if you find something missing, kindly share it in the comments below.

CSS Frameworks, cut down on your development time.

CSS Frameworks, cut down on your development time.

Posted 05 October 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: CSS | No Comments

A CSS framework, also known as a web design framework is a pre-prepared library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks (usually packaged as external .css sheets inserted into the header) package a number [...]

Post your Front-end Developer jobs to front-end-developer.com for Free!

Post your Front-end Developer jobs to front-end-developer.com for Free!

Posted 09 July 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Post your Job openings and expose them to quality web developer and web designer candidates.
Find your next Web Professional.  Find your next gig or job. Powered by front-end-developer.com
Post your Front-end Developer jobs now for Free

52 Font search engines for commercial and free fonts.

52 Font search engines for commercial and free fonts.

Posted 07 July 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Fonts | No Comments

1stopfonts
A font of the day place. An archive. A font search engine. [Google]

Agfa
Font search engine packaged so that one might think it is an independent effort. Not so: Agfa is swamping the net with URLs to capture font traffic. This site leads mainly to Agfa fonts. [Google]

Archive.org
Font-related search. [Google]

Columbia University
Search for type books [...]

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Posted 06 July 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Freebies | No Comments

XHTML is dead, long live HTML 5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely ready until 2022, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted [...]

Modernizr: start implementing CSS 3 and HTML5 features now

Modernizr: start implementing CSS 3 and HTML5 features now

Posted 06 July 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: CSS | No Comments

So, you’re a front-end developer, and you want to start taking advantage of new features in CSS 3 and HTML5. That’s great, but you know that most of your users aren’t running browsers that support these new standards. You could just wait for browsers to get with the times, or you could check out Modernizr.
Modernizr [...]

Great tips for Making Websites Run Faster

Great tips for Making Websites Run Faster

Posted 24 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Installing a fast browser is not always enough to have a good experience when you browse the web: many web pages aren’t optimized for performance. To help webmasters improve their sites, Google launched a new section as part of Google Code: “Let’s make the web faster“, which includes useful articles, videos and downloadable tools.

WPtouch: Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application

WPtouch: Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application

Posted 22 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Developer Tools | No Comments

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience [...]

Aviary launches Falcon image markup editor and Talon for screen capture (Firefox)

Aviary launches Falcon image markup editor and Talon for screen capture (Firefox)

Posted 20 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Falcon is a blazing fast visual markup tool that was designed to work with Aviary’s new Firefox Extension (Talon) for screen capture, as well as for stand-alone image preparation.

Playboy looking for Senior Front end Developer

Playboy looking for Senior Front end Developer

Posted 18 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Location: Greater Chicago Area
URL: http://www.playboyenterprises.com
Type: Full-time
Experience: Mid-Senior level
Functions:Information Technology
Industries:Online Media, Internet, Entertainment
Posted: June 5, 2009
Pay Description:commensurate with Experience

How to become an iPhone developer in 5 steps without learning Objective-C

How to become an iPhone developer in 5 steps without learning Objective-C

Posted 13 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Buy a Mac
You’ll need one with an Intel-based processor, running the Leopard version of MacOS X. It doesn’t have to be a top of the range model, though.
Sign-up as an official developer
If you plan on releasing your masterpiece at any point, you’ll need to sign up with the iPhone Developer Program. The Standard cost [...]

Designer and Web Developer Icon Sets

Designer and Web Developer Icon Sets

Posted 12 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Graphics | No Comments

This is the showcase for icon collections, that web developers and designer can use them for their work. The requirements of the icons for web will be more about simplicity, understandable metaphor and also light weight. I have collected the icons link below, these collection is strictly for web developer and its free.

Pinvoke – Fugue [...]

200 bullets, arrows and icons for your Webdesign needs

200 bullets, arrows and icons for your Webdesign needs

Posted 11 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: Graphics | No Comments

A handy collection of bullets for your webdesign needs – these icons can add that little extra to your design and make your site stand out from the crowd.
You may use these icons as you wish, but since the bullets are uploaded by anonymous users, some of them might be subject of copyright law.
Source: StyleGala

Webkit 3D Cube using new CSS transformations

Webkit 3D Cube using new CSS transformations

Posted 06 June 2009 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Paul Hayes has been playing with CSS transformations and making 3D cubes:
The impression of a three dimensional cube can be created using modern CSS techniques, without the need for JavaScript, imagery, canvas or SVG. Using the proprietary transform property to skew and rotate shaded rectangles, individual cube faces can combine to form a 3D object. [...]

53 CSS tutorials anyone can do

53 CSS tutorials anyone can do

Posted 24 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: Tutorials | No Comments

There are many advantages to designing with Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is extremely easy to learn and rework once a basic site framework has been established. Websites, or website components can easily be changed into something totally different just by swapping a single CSS file, or a line within a CSS file.
CSS designers always [...]

Top-10 design mistakes in web applications

Posted 16 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

According to Jakob Nielsen, these are the 10 most common usability violations found in web applications:

Non-standard interface controls, such as home-grown scrollbars
Inconsistency in the way things work, appear and are labelled across the app
No providing proper affordances that give people visual clues about what they can do [...]

Top 10 accessibility mistakes

Posted 16 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | No Comments

Here’s a nice top ten of things not to do when building accessible sites:

Don’t use verbose ALT text. ALT text for information-based images
should be short and succinct. Decorative images should never have ALT
text.
Don’t use random characters, such as vertical bars, to separate [...]

Submit Your Blog to 100 Directories With Good Google Page Rank For Free With No Reciprocal Link Needed

Posted 16 April 2008 | By Vidal | Categories: How-to | 1 Comment

If you are building links for your blog to improve your Google Page Rank and Search Engine Position, submit your blog to these 100 Directories for free. The list is sorted according to their Google page rank. And the best part of it is that there is NO NEED FOR A RECIPROCAL LINK.
When you submit [...]