Today I’ll show you a quick and easy way to embed audio files on your website. Believe it or not, we still don’t have the equivalent of the ubiquitous <image> tag for audio files. However, with the increasing adoption of HTML5 standards in modern browsers, we’re getting very close. The current best practice is to use a little bit of…
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…
This post is about job control in Unix shells. Job control is your command line shell’s built-in interface for managing multiple jobs. Although I’ve known about and used job control features like & for a long time, I only recently discovered how they all fit together. With your terminal emulator’s tabs and programs like tmux and screen, it’s possible to…
Here is a tip that can make your day-to-day job easier and also your work results more accurate and predictable. Make checklists for your common work tasks. You can start with a general checklist of how to approach your workday or your week, to very specific checklists on how to perform a specific task at the office. Checklists can be…
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…
If your YouTube channel has become separated from your Google+ Page, and you’ve been racking your brain and Google search results trying to find a solution to the problem that doesn’t involve losing the hours you’ve spent garnering YouTube views or your beloved Google+ following, there is hope! A lot of the tutorials out there will tell you to log…
Maps are great visual, web design tools that help users get the information they need quickly. Advances in geocoding have made it easy to create beautiful, custom location and geographic specific data maps. Here are some of my favorite examples of websites using awesome map designs right now. Websites Using Custom Markers PM Environmental PM Environmental’s location page uses a custom Google…
About Photoshop Masks So, what are masks anyways? A mask is a technique that allows you to make very specific portions of an image invisible while showing another object in its place. However, you might be wondering when you would ever need to hide parts of an image. Masking is a powerful technique used by web designers, graphic designers, photographers or…
Here at Web Ascender, we spend a LOT of time at our desks designing and developing awesome digital products for our clients. However, all that sitting and typing can take a toll on your body in the form of a repetitive strain injury (RSI). If your wrists, forearms, elbows or neck have ever felt sore after a marathon computing session,…
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…
