I hope you’re not buying into the latest hype that “Search Engine Optimization is dead,” and “social is the new search.” SEO is far from dead. In reality, SEO is evolving into an amalgamation of tried-and-true SEO techniques, content marketing, google advertising and social media optimization. It’s grown more complex, but no less valuable. So with all that in mind, …
The world of 3D is huge. The sheer number of industries, software and tools that are involved in learning 3D can be daunting. Before you ever drop the money for the best 3D software, you need to know exactly what it is you want to learn how to do. In this article you’ll get a crash course of some of …
Motion graphics can be seen in just about every thing from television, movies, commercials and more, although we all know that watching any of these for too much time could be harmful to our eyes, that’s why is important to have the best outback vision protocol to recover the eyesight we lost. Whether you are a beginner or advanced motion …
Every element on a web page exerts a visual force that attracts the eye of the viewer. The greater the force, the more the eye is attracted. These forces also appear to act on other elements, imparting a visual direction to their potential movement and suggesting where you should look next. via Design Principles: Visual Weight And Direction – Smashing …
There’s no learning without mistakes. And I’ve done the following (as well as seen the following done) too many times to count. Luckily, there’s this thing called the “Internet” and this medium called an “article” that lets us point at and talk about these mistakes behind their backs, in the hopes that by bullying them into the spotlight, it’ll be …
It’s an exciting time for web APIs, and one to watch out for is the Web Speech API. It enables websites and web apps not only to speak to you, but to listen, too. It’s still early days, but this functionality is set to open a whole array of use cases. I’d say that’s pretty awesome. via Enhancing User Experience …
Today, being a designer is about much more than drawing beautiful interfaces in Photoshop or Fireworks. To properly design a website or application, a UI designer must understand the technology with which their products will be built; therefore, they must have a minimum set of front-end development skills. The World Wide Web is not static. Quite the opposite: It’s responsive, …
I already sent Izak a response, but I’ll share that solution here. Flexbox! I’m sure it comes as no surprise that flexbox is a wonderful layout tool. I have a guide to flexbox here that makes for a pretty good reference. via Flexbox Nav Bar with Fixed, Variable, and Take-Up-The-Rest Elements | CSS-Tricks.
It all seems to have stemmed from Chris Coyier’s tweet, and I was coincidentally on stage at An Event Apart San Francisco talking about performance budgets at that very moment with Chris in the room. In response, Tim Kadlec posted Performance Budget Metrics, a great categorization schema for the different ways you can measure performance. I should mention: just about …
The Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module (currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation) aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, align and distribute space among items in a container, even when their size is unknown and/or dynamic (thus the word “flex”). The main idea behind the flex layout is to give the container the ability to alter its items’ …