Learn Typography Basics With ‘On Web Typography’
Web typography has come a long way from the days when the only way to get a custom typeface on a page was with images created in Photoshop. These days, thanks to widespread browser support for CSS...
View ArticleMobile Browsers Help Users Avoid Bloated Webpages
Stop feeding your website donuts. Image: D. Sharon Pruitt/Flickr.Websites are getting fatter, dramatically fatter, with the average page size of sites tracked by the HTTPArchive now nearly 1.3 MB. If...
View ArticleTeachers Are the Key to Everyone Learning to Code
Code.org recently made a splash with its high-profile supporters — everyone from Bill Gates to Snoop Dogg have offered up their support for Code.org’s premise: that everyone should learn to code....
View ArticleGoogle: Here’s What to Do if Your Website Is Hacked
Chrome’s malware warning page. Image: Google.Nothing drives away your visitors quite like a message from Google that “this site may harm your computer” or “this site may have been compromised.”...
View ArticlePut Your Site on a Diet With Google’s Image-Shrinking ‘WebP’ Format
WebP versus JPEG. Click the image to see the full size examples on Google’s WebP comparison page. Image: Google Webpages are constantly getting bigger. Massive JavaScript libraries and endless sharing...
View ArticleScaling on a Shoestring, Lessons from NewsBlur
NewsBlur survives a traffic surge after news of Google Reader’s pending demise gets around.Image: NewsBlur.One of the more interesting stories to emerge from the demise of Google Reader is that of...
View ArticleGoogle Discontinues Site-Blocking Service
Image: THOR/FlickrThe hits just keep getting killed off. Google is shutting down yet another service — the company’s domain blocking tool, which allowed logged-in users to block unwanted domains from...
View ArticleThe Future of CSS: Flexbox Is a Game Changer
Look Ma, no floats! Image: AbobeHTML5 and CSS 3 offer web developers new semantic tags, native animation tools, server-side fonts and much more, but that’s not the end of the story. In fact, for...
View ArticleThe Very First Website Returns to the Web
Robert Cailliau’s original WWW logo. Image: CERN. Twenty years ago today CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web freely available to everyone. To celebrate that moment in history, CERN...
View ArticleVideo: What Does 10 Petabytes of Data Look Like?
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is deceptively simple — plug in a website and you can see copies of it over time. What you don’t see is the massive amount of effort, data and storage necessary...
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