Tutorial Details Technology: CSS3, HTML 5 Difficulty: Intermediate Completion Time: 1-2 hours Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along. [...]

I remember shivering in my college dorm room trying to figure out how to get some weird /div to float in some sort of column like structure and silently crying a single tear as my youth slowly withered away. Those days are gone! With the birth of Firefox, the step-child banishment of Internet Explorer 6 and widespread adaptation of standards… life indeed has become much cheerier for us front-end web developers. What could be better [...]

Abstract The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances [...]

Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard all the blogging chatter surrounding the “new hotness” that is HTML5. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news. Things like jQuery plugins, formatting techniques, and design [...]

The iPad. The most killing word on everyone’s lips lately… This newest mobile computing device (a.k.a. Apple Tablet) claims to revolutionize how we consume the web content. Boldly enough, however let’s admit that this tablet has a huge potential, so many people already want their website to be perfectly optimized for this recently unveiled gadget. But what do they need to do when designing pages to perform on this interesting Apple’s invention? For general design [...]

WEB STANDARD SETS NEW STANDARDS Are you ready for Dreamweaver CS5? I hope so because the latest release of Adobe’s flagship Web design titan packs a punch and is sure to increase your layout and troubleshooting productivity with a handful of helpful new features and commands. In this review, we’ll take a look at the best new features Dreamweaver CS5 has to offer. Aside from a spiffy new 3-dimensional icon, probably the most recognizable new [...]