A popup can make or break your site. It is one of the most delicate web techniques that you can apply to your site. Popups that have been incorporated correctly, can bring in new customers and business without a lot of effort. If you’ve read Katie’s excellent post regarding generating leads with popups, you’ve already realized how valuable they can be…
CSS allows you to customize web pages and change various element properties. One of the more powerful things you can do with CSS is animation. CSS animation can bring your website to life and enhance your users’ experience. If you’ve ever worked with CSS3 you might see properties like transform or transition in a stylesheet. CSS3 includes many new ways to dynamically transform your…
Google Sheets is one of my favorite web applications. It’s quick, lightweight, and easy to use. For those of you not familiar with Google Sheets, it’s Google’s web-based spreadsheet application. While creating tabular data is the main function of this application, did you know that you can also create dynamic, embeddable charts based on these data values? Let’s take a…
This post is a follow up to my previous Setup Android Lollipop Emulator on OS X post which covered the basics of setting up an Android emulator on your machine. Today, let’s take a look at setting up an iOS simulator on OS X. Download and Install Xcode Currently, Apple doesn’t provide a stand-alone simulator app. What you’ll need to do…
What is SVG? SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an XML-based language format supporting two-dimensional graphics. SVG images are comprised of vector-based shapes which are generated by mathematical equations. SVG is nothing new. In fact, SVG was introduce all the way back in the year 2001 (13 years!). But only in the last few years has SVG been fully embraced…
Website and web application testing should cover a variety of platforms and browsers. You want your application to run smoothly for your widest audience. If you’re like me, your primary machine is OS X and your browsers of choice are Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. But what about Internet Explorer? Enter virtual machines. A virtual machine or VM, emulates a complete…
Mobile testing is one of the most important requirements when building a website or web application. Gestures, load times, and browser differences can all effect the user experience. In the case of testing with Android, you have two options. You can either purchase a physical device with the latest and greatest version of Android or choose the more practical (and…
Today, we’re going to be looking at some of my favorite WordPress widgets. Many WordPress plugins provide widgets as a way to modify and extend the functionality of your site without having to touch a single line of PHP. Widgets are a great way to supercharge your website’s look and feel. Let’s take a look at 4 great widgets in…
There is nothing new about website image sliders but the way you interact with them has changed dramatically. A typical image slider usually includes a few basic controls, automatic slide transitions and the ability to cycle through slides via a pager. However, what happens when you try to interact with these sliders on a mobile phone? Or a tablet? There are…
HTML5 is quickly becoming the go-to markup language for the web. One of the biggest improvements over it’s predecessor is in the way it manages media, specifically video. This <video> tag provides a simple way to quickly embed video on your site. <video width=”320″ height=”240″ controls> <source src=”movie.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″> <source src=”movie.ogg” type=”video/ogg”> Your browser does not support the video tag….