Every year introduces new trends in web development, but 2020 has been a year like no other. The “trends” this year are not necessarily based on new functionality, development techniques, or even styles or tastes. This year’s trends have evolved out of a change in the entire complexion of the…
In the beginning, creating a website involved simply using a text editor to construct hypertext documents, adding links to other documents, and applying CSS style commands for cosmetic purposes. Microsoft’s FrontPage and other “high-level” development tools aided in the process. As web development has progressed into the technological complexity of…
As anyone who’s been tasked with the SEO of a website knows, getting to the top of search results is a moving target. We’ve become accustomed to terms like Google Algorithms, Rankbrain (artificial intelligence), Structured Data, Mobile First Indexing, AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) and Domain Authority.
I’d heard rumblings about it over the last several months, but I was still taken aback some when I saw where Google is ending support for Google Plus this month. Google is known for being somewhat compulsive when it comes to making changes, so it’s not too surprising that they…
The Grid Layout concept is not new but has recently undergone some enhancements and is now the design method of choice.
Recently studying the new trends in web design to expect in the coming year, many ingenuitive, and sensible ideas arose. Though some have been around at least a little while, others just seem like progress. Nevertheless, here’s a list of things I’ve picked up on that you might see in…
What began as a local music festival in 1987 has grown into an international exposition of festivals, interactive media and conferences. Featuring the latest trends in technology, film, music, gaming, and more, SXSW has emerged as the unparalleled annual event for discovery, networking, and inspiration for fostering creative and professional…
With the rapid growth of technology it’s no surprise that Wi-Fi is now becoming old hat. High-speed transmission of data by Visual Light Communication (VLC) has been tested and will be become common parlance in tech nomenclature in the coming months.
In the mid 1960s, Intel’s Gordon Moore predicted that the capacity of transistors and integrated circuits would double every year, envisioning the future of the digital revolution, hence “Moore’s Law.” As storage mediums become smaller, more powerful, and less expensive to manufacture, it has allowed for the storage of large…
Anyone who builds websites knows how time-consuming cascading style sheets (CSS) development can be, but delegating the task to a CSS preprocessor can alleviate the tedium and handle the “dirty work”. Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets), Less (Leaner Style Sheets) and Stylus are the top CSS pre-processors used by web developers today.
