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New in the HTML5 Development Center
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Navigating HTML5 Geolocation
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Ten Basic Things Every Web Developer Should Know
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5 New jQuery Techniques for Creating a Better User Experience
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Mastering the CSS Clip-Path Property
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Displaying Basic Scalable Shapes on Your Web Pages with SVG
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Working with Anonymous Table Objects
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New Goodies
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5 Simple Techniques to Debug a WordPress Site
Explore five techniques and see how easy it is to debug your WordPress sites.
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Navigating HTML5 Geolocation
Octavia Anghel shows you how to to use the HTML5 Geolocation API to determine the location of a user.
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Ten Basic Things Every Web Developer Should Know
You should know these ten things if you plan to build a web site, no matter what your technical level is!
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Securely Store User Passwords Using Bcrypt Hashing
In a previous article, we were introduced to the JSON Web Token (JWT) open standard (RFC 7519). In today's tutorial, Rob Gravelle shows us how to create a route that accepts a user's credentials and stores them securely in a MongoDB database using bcrypt hashing.
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5 New jQuery Techniques for Creating a Better User Experience
Madan Pariyar focuses on five new jQuery techniques for creating a better user experience.
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Mastering the CSS Clip-Path Property
Cascading Style Sheets offer a way to create an expressive structure for your site. See how, when the clip-path properties are applied with taste and good judgment, shapes can improve the presentation of your content.
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Displaying Basic Scalable Shapes on Your Web Pages with SVG
One of the issues with images on your Web site is that when you try to scale the page or display it on different devices, the image can become dithered or malformed. Learn how to use scalable vector graphics (SVG) to avoid this issue.
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Working with Anonymous Table Objects
Some languages are missing key elements for properly building tables. See how CSS defines a mechanism for automatically inserting the missing table components as anonymous objects.
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Guide to Using Different CSS for Different Browsers
For any web project, you will need a CSS style sheet. After all, it commands how your website will look and feel. So, how many CSS style sheets do you need to make your project work?
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Explore TypeScript Fat Arrow!
Of all of TypeScript's many notable features, the fat arrow is arguably one of the most powerful, yet it is also the most confusing to newbies to the TypeScript language. In this tutorial, Rob Gravelle explores the fat arrow's role and usage.
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Modifying CSS Width Attributes with jScript So It Works!
Many people to to dynamically change the width of HTML tags and fail to have it work. Learn the right way!
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Manipulate DOM Elements Without Writing JavaScript Code
No.js is an extremely lightweight JavaScript library that allows you do DOM manipulations without writing any JavaScript whatsoever. If that idea appeals to you, then read on and let Rob Gravelle demontrate what No.js can do for you!
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10 Essential Media Queries to Include in Your CSS Style Sheets
Explore 10 media queries that can keep your web pages stylish and well organized.
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Generate a Bar Chart with D3.js
In the last article, we used the D3.js library to display the contents of a CSV data file within a dynamically generated HTML table. This time around, we're going to step things up a notch by producing a slick SVG bar chart from a JSON data set.
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Getting Started with Grunt.js
Learn how to automate simple build tasks with the help of Grunt.js.
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The Model-View-ViewModel Pattern and Angular Development
Rob Gravelle shows how Angular follows a component-oriented architecture, while sharing some of the concepts of both MVC and MVVM by presenting a couple of coding examples.
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Bring Your Data to Life with D3.js
D3 is a JavaScript library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations in any web browser. Rob Gravelle shows us how to use D3 to display the contents of a CSV data file within an HTML table.
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Getting Started with CSS Counters
Learn how to implement CSS counters, which allow you to adjust the appearance of web page content based on its location in a document.
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Integrate JSON Web Token Authentication into Single-page Apps
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are one of the most widely used authentication mechanisms in modern SPAs. In this article, Rob Gravelle shows us how to set up a SPA in MS Visual Source Code. Within that development environment, we'll build and test an SPA that authenticates a user's credentials against one that is stored securely in a MongoDB database.
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Featured Goodies
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A Designer's Guide to Getting Started with Web Development
Your design options may be limited due to lack of technical skill. Designers who are capable of efficiently collaborating with developers will be able to open the doors to rewarding projects and lots of development in the future.
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Exploring Online Webmaster Tools
One of the most exciting developments of the Web is the emergence of online tools. There is even a category of web tools that caters specifically to webmasters. Rob Gravelle examines the role of the webmaster and presents a few sites that provide useful tools.
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Top HTML5 Features: Simplified Script Tags, Autofocus, and More
In part 2 of the Top HTML5 Features series, Rob Gravelle presents a few more great additions to the HTML spec, including simplified script and link tags, the autofocus feature, and more.
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Revolutionary HTML5 Online Website Generation Tools: SILEX, Weebly, and Wix
Online "no code" website generation tools can be accessed from any device, where ever you are, and that they enable you to create a great site without needing a lot of programming or coding knowledge. Rob Gravelle presents three of the most popular: SILEX, Weebly, and Wix.
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HTML6 Proposals Wishlist
Earlier this year, people started getting excited about some of the proposals for HTML6 that were being tossed around. Rob Gravelle highlights some of the more interesting ones.
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Top HTML5 Features: DOCTYPE, FIGURE, and Form Enhancements
HTML5 has been around long enough for us to take a close look at what its original intent was and if it has met the challenge.
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HTML5 Coding Methodologies
In order to develop in a smarter and better way, we should adopt a set of coding methodologies that foster a smoother development life cycle. Rob Gravelle explores a few of the latest coding methodologies that have found their way into web developers' arsenal.
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HTML and Graphics Tutorials
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Creating Drop Caps in HTML and CSS
Learn more about different methods of employing drop caps to make your web pages more visually appealing.
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Working with Filters, Blending, Clipping and Masking in CSS
Learn how to apply filters over an image and how to use the blending, clipping and masking properties in CSS.
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So You Want to Optimize Your Images...
By reducing the overall size of the images you are using, you'll reduce the amount of time that is needed to download and display your pages. That can also have a positive impact on how your pages are treated by the search engines!
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Beyond HTML
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5 Simple Techniques to Debug a WordPress Site
Explore five techniques and see how easy it is to debug your WordPress sites.
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Navigating HTML5 Geolocation
Octavia Anghel shows you how to to use the HTML5 Geolocation API to determine the location of a user.
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Primers
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Building Universal Vue.js Applications with Nuxt.js
Universal JavaScript is a type of JavaScript code that can execute both on the client and the server. Rob Gravelle explains how to generate a Universal Vue.js app using the Nuxt.js starter template.
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Positioning HTML Elements Using CSS
Learn about CSS positioning types and how to overlap elements and add some text over an image.
