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There’s another “Overnight Web Site Challenge” charity event about to happen, and this time the Nerdery will be hosting it in Chicago. The Nerdery, along with volunteer web developers, have already donated $1.5 million worth of free websites to nonprofits. The Overnight Web Site Challenge is an overnight volunteer event that is scheduled for August […]

After two months of penalization, Google has apparently lifted the penalty that was imposed on the J.C. Penny website in February. J.C. Penney is turning the penalty into linkbait, a move that currently appears to helping them with SEO. After making changes to their search engine algorithm, Google had penalized J.C. Penney for supposed “shady […]

With all the recent announcements and observations about HTML5 to come out recently, it’s a good guess that some would be pure hype. A new animation program called Hype, ironically, is said to create animations using web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript–but it actually only generates animations consisting of standard old HTML4, CSS […]

Developers have often lamented that they wanted to be able to create web-based apps that look, feel and act like native applications, that is, applications developed to take advantage of the native functionality of specific devices. The line between the two is getting more and more blurred through the use of HTML5, JavaScript libraries and […]

The self-publication of books used to be reserved for those who were unable to find a publisher. With Lulu, an online publishing platform, and its new Lulu API, developers, publishers and content writers can manage the whole publishing process. Lulu hopes to entice developers and writers with several APIs, including the Open Publication API, which […]

Google is known to rely on automated bots, i.e. algorithms like the recent Panda update, for its search engine results. What many don’t know, however, is that Google also relies on Google Quality Raters…the question is, how much weight do the Quality Raters carry over standard SEO? Google’s Quality Raters are actually contracted to do […]

Creating a mapping service or application for the web just got easier for developers. The Ovi Maps API enables developers to add interactive maps to websites using a bit of JavaScript and HTML. The Ovi Maps website provides a glimpse of the functionality provided by the Ovi Maps API. Users are able to find a […]

While the HTML5 spec still isn’t ready for prime time, and CSS3 still has a while before it is fully supported by all browsers, there are already plenty of apps which showcase the potential that these technologies, along with JavaScript, have for the future of the web. Recently a web-based version of the most popular […]

By using Google’s advanced learning algorithms for dissecting data to provide potential outcomes, the Google Prediction API allows developers to create smarter applications, which in turn enables the creation of smarter gadgets and devices. Ford Motors is using the Google Prediction API in its own research lab to make driving automobiles a more efficient process. By […]

Many web developers’ lives have been complicated by developing websites that have to work with the limitations of older Internet Explorer browsers. If you use some slick CSS hacks, you can work around the limitations and “features” of IE and make a better website in the process–but are the hacks “safe”? Mathias Bynens is an […]

When a small business is also a new business, and the task of setting up a website comes up, business owners have many choices available for content management. Joomla! is a good choice for small businesses, as it is very extensible and offers many advantages over other CMS’s. The WordPress CMS is great for blogging […]

WordPress developers and bloggers on the go will be interested in the WordPress for iOS app. The latest update was recently announced by the WordPress team, and enables users to post or edit their WordPress blogs using iOS devices. WordPress for iOS 2.8 includes a host of new features, rather than just more stability updates. […]