Today, January 18th, is a day of internet strike against censorship. Next week Congress is voting on one bill that will pass internet censorship in the U.S. There are two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate, that would largely affect Americans’ access to information online. These bills would put companies like GetCreative in legal trouble if we linked to a site anywhere online that had any links to copyright infringement (source).
I first blogged about the wonders of HTML5 back in May, and I think it is time for an update. There has been progress both in the available features and browser support for HTML5. With these new features there have also developed a number of tutorials and facts to aid in modern web development. Read on to for some of the best HTML5 resources that I have come across so far.
With the recent release of Google’s Font API, this seemed an appropriate time to address web fonts in the Tips & Tricks section. Fonts used for the web are in some ways more limited than the fonts available for print or electronic design. Web safe fonts used to be dependent on each browser’s settings; today there are numerous ways to incorporate specialty fonts into your website. (more…)
HTML5, the newest series of updates and improvements to the website coding language, is not expected to be complete until 2022. With a release date more than a decade away, it might seem a bit far fetched to call this “news” already. However, there are a number of HTML5 changes and practices that are already being recognized across all browsers. Other proposed changes will not be in effect for quite some time, but even the prospect of these advances is exciting.
As is the case with any technology field, the web design industry is constantly being updated with more efficient and effective tools and practices. One of the newest upgrades for HTML/CSS designers is CSS3. CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, is the code that stylizes an .html page. CSS styles can be either internal to the .html page, or external. I design almost exclusively with an external CSS file, to keep myself and my websites organized. Below are a few examples (after the jump).
