Web Development

How to make sure you are building your website with the marketing end in mind

Posted by on May 4, 2012 at 10:40 am

Why is the way a website is built so important? Business websites today are not only the first impression of your business to the world but a critical tool in marketing your products or services and delivering leads and sales. To effectively compete, a business website needs to be easily found via search and deliver [...]

Responsive Web Design: Is it the Future or a Feature?

Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 1:18 pm

What if you only had to build one website design and it would fit all devices, big or small? You can, with a Responsive Web Design. Responsive Web Design (RWD) essentially indicates that a website is crafted to use W3C CSS3 media queries with fluid proportion-based grids to adapt the layout to the users viewing [...]

Can You Run Your Business from an iPad? – Pt. 1

Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 1:04 pm

Why not? Looking at 80 percent of my day-to-day, most everything outside of my web development and design projects are easily iPad friendly. Take a step back from your desk, your to-do’s and the applications you’re using. Taking a birds’ eye view of what we do everyday, it’s clear those apps concentrate on three areas: [...]

Emphasizing Site Search in Web Design

Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 12:46 pm

A website’s own search engine is fundamental to helping customers find products, make purchases, and have a positive shopping experience. If 43 percent or 50 percent or even 25 percent of an online retailer’s audience is using site search to locate products, then it is clear that site search can have a significant impact on [...]

Get Adobe’s Creative Suite From the Cloud, For Just $49 A Month

Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 12:37 pm
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Adobe’s new offering, Creative Cloud, brings the company’s expansive and expensive range of legendary publishing and art applications, Flash development software and other tools to all via an affordable software as a service solution. The Cloud Gets Design Power Adobe has long ruled the roost in the creative world with its suites of design and [...]

€100k Optimise fund to help 10 small firms with web development

Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 12:35 pm

The fund was launched by the Irish Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, in 2011 to mark the tenth anniversary of IEDR and raise awareness of the extent to which small businesses in Ireland are slow to harness the revenue potential of the Internet. IEDR’s Domain Name Industry Report published in November 2011 revealed that [...]

Google takes wraps off Web-based digital glasses

Posted by on April 14, 2012 at 4:53 pm

Google Inc is getting into the eyewear business with a pair of thin wraparound shades that puts the company’s Web services in your face. The experimental “augmented reality” glasses – from the same team that is developing self-driven cars – can snap photos, initiate videochats and display directions at the sound of a user’s voice. [...]

Yahoo Mojito: Environment-Agnostic JavaScript Web App Framework

Posted by on April 14, 2012 at 4:34 pm

Former darling of search engine Yahoo has announced the availability of Mojito, an open-source cross-platform programming framework built on JavaScript. Engineered for both client and server environments, the company is hammering home a “single code-base” message for development, testing, and debugging. Part of Yahoo’s broader Cocktails mobile development platform featuring a mix of HTML5, Node.JS, [...]

Guiding design principle: Start small, then scale up

Posted by on April 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm

A few years ago, building a mobile-optimized website went something like this: Take your regular-sized desktop site, and squeeze. The result was mobile websites that were hobbled versions of their bigger, better desktop counterparts. From a design standpoint, mobile devices were second-class citizens.     Today, Web developers are turning that process on its head. [...]

Microsoft releases Web development technology source code

Posted by on April 4, 2012 at 9:39 am

Looking to build community around some of its Web development properties, Microsoft is releasing source code for its ASP.Net Web API and ASP.Net Web Pages technologies under an open source license. The two projects are being made available via an Apache 2.0 license. They have their code repositories hosted on Microsoft’s CodePlex open source project [...]

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