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Web designers and developers need techniques that work now while keeping an eye on what lies ahead. To do that, I’ve had one focus in every workshop I’ve taught over the past seven years: getting the best real world solutions for creating accessible websites and applications into the hands of […]
Before there were commercials, television, or the Internet, my great-grandfather’s stories would draw crowds and fill seats. One tale he told was of Charlemagne’s court. His medium was a stage, his voice, and 150 marionettes he’d brought from Sicily to America when he immigrated in the late 19th century. His […]
Last week, I explored the idea that raising prices can actually increase business. To many business owners, this is counter-intuitive. Most believe higher prices means less people will do business with them. But is that really the case? Some people have too much business because they charge too little. Others […]
It’s increasingly difficult to keep track of the browser market. Chrome 12, Firefox 5 and Opera 11.5 were released last month. Some browsers auto-update, some don’t. Some vendors have lavish launch promotions, others don’t mention it. The big news for July is that Chrome usage has passed 20% for the […]
Episode 119 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of regular host Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) with guests Venessa Paech (@venessapaech), Sarah Hawk (@ilovethehawk) and Matt Haughey (@mathowie). The panel discuss the profession of Online Community, how it’s grown in importance and profile, and […]
I was looking at a few web developers’ websites recently, and was appalled at how tech-heavy most of them were. Sure, it’s nice to show off that you understand the lingo, but prospects want to read your website without having to look in a dictionary. Here’s the opening sentence on […]
In this second example, instead of stretching the middle of the border-image, we’ve repeated, slightly distorting the image if necessary to ensure we don’t have a broken image in supporting browsers.To ensure that the image is not ‘broken’, the width should be a multiple of the slice’s width. While we’ve […]