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  • 10 Essential Web Design Strategies

    In this article we look at 10 design strategies for the web. Since the web is changing all the time, designers and developers must adapt. Here, we cover some of the current and past design practices.

  • Fast CSS3 Tools to Increase Your Productivity

    In this review we look at several CSS3 tools to increase your productivity. Each tool creates snippets of CSS3 code that you can use in your projects.

  • Working with Web Workers in HTML5 Powered Web Pages

    This article walks web developers through the support for performing background tasks in HTML5 web applications.

  • A Look at OptimizePress 2.0

    In this article we take an inside look at OptimizePress 2.0, which is a theme/plugin which allows you to create squeeze pages, sales pages, a blog, integrate email marketing and more.

  • 7 HTML5 Game Design Mistakes to Avoid

    HTML5 apps and games are exploding in popularity, with many developers rushing to take advantage of this new medium, but with every medium comes new procedures. In this article you'll learn how to keep your projects on track.

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  • Leverage Your HTML5 Savvy to Build Commercial, Cross-Platform Apps and Games

    An unexpected player has entered the fray with a tool that makes HTML5 mobile development easy while also directly addressing some of the shortcomings of Web technologies in mobile apps. See a demonstration of how quickly you can begin creating your own apps using HTML5.

  • Common Techniques in Responsive Web Design

    This article about responsive Web design explores techniques for designing and implementing layouts that respond to the context of a user’s device, including handling grid-layout, bandwidth-sensitive image scaling and optimization of text and form fields.

  • Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with HTML5 and SVG: Text, Paths and Basic Animation

    Of all the features of HTML5, SVG has gotten precious little attention. Learn how it can create visually appealing pages, while possibly saving you from the impending zombie apocalypse.

  • Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors, Part 1: Structural Pseudo-Classes

    Most of us are already familiar with id and class selectors, and I introduced you to the beauty of attribute selectors in “Understanding CSS Selectors.” But there’s so much more. In this two-part series, I’ll look at the new selectors in CSS3, starting with structural pseudo-classes.

  • Video: Building High-Performing JavaScript for Modern Engines

    This in-depth video discus’s the key insights and optimizations implemented in browser JavaScript engines, such as Chakra in Internet Explorer 10 or V8 in Chrome as well as the best practices for taking advantage of these optimizations in your code and learn how to pinpoint JavaScript performance problems using appropriate tools and more.

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  • 7 HTML5 Game Design Mistakes to Avoid

    HTML5 apps and games are exploding in popularity, with many developers rushing to take advantage of this new medium, but with every medium comes new procedures. In this article you'll learn how to keep your projects on track.

  • A DIY Strategy for Dealing with CSS3 Vendor Prefixes

    In offering an interim solution while the details of the official CSS3 spec were fully hashed out, each browser vendor defined their own prefixes. Now, we Web developers have to deal with them. Rob Gravelle offers a starting point for working with CSS3 vendor prefixes without going stir crazy in the process.

  • The AppCache in Action

    In this age of up-to-99.999% up time, it's hard to believe that connectivity would be an issue for online applications, but it is. In the Build an Offline HTML5 Web Application article, Rob Gravelle hinted at the role of the Manifest File in offline applications. In today's follow-up, he goes through the steps required to equip a real life Web application to go offline if necessary.

  • Responding to Ajax Calls Using Servlets

    In the Calling Servlets Using Ajax article, we learned how easy it is to bind an Ajax call to a Java Servlet to a button. In today's follow-up, we'll be writing the Java code, modifying the web.xml, and trying out our new Web app.

  • Detecting Browser Event Support

    With so many vendor-specific and partially supported native event types available nowadays, it helps to be able to tell which browsers supports a given event. Rob Gravelle demonstrates a few such techniques, without resorting to inconsistent browser sniffing.

  • HTML and Graphics Tutorials

  • Learn CSS3 From A - Z: 3D Transformations

    3D transforms allow us web developers to render objects on the page that appear to be 3 dimensional. When the human eye sees a scene, objects in the distance appear smaller than those close by - this is known as perspective. In order to represent 3D imagery in 2D, the trick used is to make parallel lines that go away from the user merge towards a point, known as the vanishing point. This article takes a closer look at how we do that using CSS3 and HTML5 programming.

  • Beyond HTML

  • How to Create Image Maps With HTML and CSS

    If you've ever wanted to create image maps for your web pages, you can do so in a variety of ways. One approach is to do so manually, though that could be quite time-consuming. A better way is to make use of software to help you, whether that's a standalone application or an option that's a part of a larger application.

  • How to Build a Simple Mobile Website with CSS3

    In this article Nathan Segal takes a look at a variety of options for building simple mobile websites with CSS3, including examples, sample code, and tips on building a site that displays well on a mobile platform.

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