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The eCommerce Director at Hotels.com, Daniel Craig, recently discussed mobile app development and provided some insights into the development of mobile applications. One of the first topics discussed was the concept of the target audience–those users that are most likely to use your application. Craig believes that the challenge for most apps is to gain […]

Web developers have many tasks that are associated with the creation of a web page, including the design itself, and more importantly, how it will be be accomplished. The W3Conf featured a discussion about the CSS Working Group, which is trying to eradicate the problems that developers often face. While there were many topical CSS […]

Every web developer knows why search engine optimization (SEO) is vital for a website, but how can Microsoft tools and technologies be used for your SEO project? Some Microsoft tools, such as ASP.NET WebForms, have been reported to cause problems with view-state and an inability to control the HTML that is rendered to the web […]

A new book was recently announced by Packt that covers MongoDB and the creation of dynamic Web 2.0 apps. The PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide provides a “code first, explain later” look at the Web 2.0 app creation process, and walks users through the process of storing real-time site analytics, handling user sessions, […]

The massive growth of social media has had a huge impact on online retailers, who have struggled with the task of managing their social media marketing channels so that they positively affect their organic search results. Google and Bing now include social data in their indexing algorithms, so the management of social media has become […]

The latest version of Kony Solutions’ KonyOne mobile development platform now includes comprehensive support for HTML5. The KonyOne platform enables developers to create and deliver both native and Web apps, allowing them to use a single application definition across multiple platforms including mobile devices, tablets and desktops. The CEO of Kony, Raj Koneru, discussed the […]

One of the difficulties that arise through the use of cascading style sheets (CSS) is that unlike other web standards such as HTML, CSS can get too complicated for most people to follow, very quickly. A new technology called Knyle Style Sheets (KSS) was designed to solve that problem now, so it doesn’t become worse […]

After months of work, the latest release of the popular qooxdoo JavaScript framework, version 1.6, has become available, and can be downloaded by developers. This update adds several improvements that are substantial along with many new features including support for offline applications, CSS3 animations and transforms. The offline application support is a feature that many […]

One of the things that HTML5 brings to the table for developers is the prospect of a unified web development platform that could potentially work across all browsers running on all platforms. The only caveat is that the browsers themselves must be standards compliant, which would effectively make the web itself the platform. While desktop […]

Although web designers have used images to create the effect of gradients on web pages for many years, the process slows down page loading time, and is impractical in the long run. CSS3 can be used in a much more effective manner, but older browsers and those without the CSS3 support needed have to be […]

Web developers have had a busy year, and many web development tools haven’t caught up to the emerging web standards as 2011 comes to a close. That said, there have been many good open source tools that have shown up, and here are a few of the most popular, useful tools that come to mind. […]

While the SproutCore team are likely to be busy working on an apps distribution platform for Facebook, the best parts of the SproutCore project–an independent HTML5 framework for creating and distributing apps, will live on in the new project that is being called Amber.js. Yehuda Katz, a former team member on the SproutCore project, is […]