Design
Noupe Site Check: Bloomberg
News portals don’t always seem to be receptive to contemporary design and the use of new technologies such as HTML5 or CSS3. Often, a fixed layout is used, only supporting the ...
Design
Design
20 Code Snippets for Interactive Buttons
Can you imagine a website without buttons? I bet you can’t. And it is not surprising since these tiny, mostly rectangular-shaped objects much like navigation or copyright ...
Boilerplates & Other Tools
Facebook’s Design Assistants United Under One Roof
It’s slowly but constantly becoming a trend that big platforms provide their design tools and other helpers to the community. Twitter has stood out the most lately by making ...
Design
HTML5: Improving Forms With Autocomplete
To complete form input faster, browsers offer the option of autocompletion. The entries made by the user are saved and suggested when the same or a similar form with the same ...
Business Online
INK Creates Responsive Email Newsletters That Arrive
The first sentence on the website of the provider Ink tells us what their goal is: „Quickly create responsive HTML emails that work on any device and client. Even Outlook.“ With this ...
Business Online
Canva: Create Online Graphics Easily
Not every website operator is a good graphic designer at the same time. Does that mean that they are forced to forgo illustrations and images? No, it doesn’t. Nowadays there is ...
Apps
Designing Web Code in a Native App
Over the years, I’ve heard developers say, “you can always tell when it’s a web app,” insinuating that web apps are lacking when compared with native apps. These same folks will claim ...
(Free) Services
Social Media: Eight Hand-picked Image Tools
In general, images in social media posts help to achieve greater success than plain text posts. Experiments have shown that posts supported by images get a larger amount of clicks, ...
Design
5 Ways to Make Your Site Rock on the Modern Web (…and Microsoft Edge too)
Edge is Microsoft’s new web browser sporting a new rendering engine – EdgeHTML – and an underlying OS to boot in Windows 10. Since upgrades from Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will be free ...
Boilerplates & Other Tools
Simbla: Responsive Websites Made Easy
Thanks to numerous website builders and homepage generators you can quickly and easily click together a website. You wouldn’t even need to know HTML, CSS or JavaScript to do so. ...
Business Online
10 Common Mistakes Web Developers Make
There seem to be endless choices regarding how to accomplish the same task – to develop a website that works in today’s modern web. Web developers have to choose a web ...
Design
HTML5 APIs: Measure Performance with User and Navigation Timing
Complex web applications can slow down the processing power of the client. Hence, it is important – especially for mobile devices – to make some adjustments, so everything runs ...
Design
Responsive Web Design: How to Find the Right Photos
The Web – open space for any web designer out there. Today’s and even more so tomorrow’s web is one big challenge for our industry. Web sites are supposed to adapt ...
Design
How we Created Dynamic Sound with the Web Audio API in Microsoft Flight Simulator Arcade
Before the Web Audio API, HTML5 gave us the <audio> element. It might seem hard to remember now, but prior to the <audio> element, our best option for sound in a browser was ...
Design
User Experience Design: How to Do it Right
We know that the customer is always right. However, this motto is often neglected costing website operators a lot of money that could have been better spent. No matter what industry ...
Boilerplates & Other Tools
Infragistics Indigo Studio: Real Rapid Prototyping for Web, Mobile, and Desktop
Rapid prototyping is an essential way of saving time in our modern age where billions of apps compete for the customer’s attention. Is the great idea you had for just another app ...