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A Guide to Understanding Page-Speed Tests

Before you can optimize your website you first need to understand what your page speed tests are telling you."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:33:52 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal Go After Phishers With New E-Mail Authentication Effort

The biggest names in e-mail have teamed up to create a new system for authenticating e-mail senders, which would help prevent fraudulent spam and phishing messages."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:18:00 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Mozilla Questions Web Orthodoxies With ‘Pancake’

Mozilla Labs has launched an ambitious new project dubbed Pancake. The goal is to question our very basic assumptions about what the web should be and, hopefully, create a better web in the process. If nothing else at least Mozilla now has a Director of P"

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:47:35 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


The Disneyfication of Tech

Users are caught between tech and media and neither is looking out for our interest."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:13:20 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Video: When We Build

Former Apple designer Wilson Miner reminds us why we care about building a better web in this inspiring talk."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:30:00 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


See the World Through the Eyes of Google Images

Dutch artist Sebastien Schmieg has elevated the Google Image search from its humble intent, creating a short film that strings together a series of image searches."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:51:40 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Protest SOPA: Black Out Your Website the Google-Friendly Way

Google has some advice for anyone who would like to black out their site to protest the SOPA/PIPA/OPEN legislation, while ensuring that doing so doesn’t harm their Google search rank or indexed content."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:23:40 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Protesting SOPA: How to Make Your Voice Heard

This week, "call your Congressperson" is not just a cliche. It’s one of the most important things you can do to make your voice heard."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:06:12 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Building a Responsive, Future-Friendly Web for Everyone

Dozens of new web-enabled gadgets have landed at this year's CES, here's how to make sure your website will look good and work well on all of them."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:11:23 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


The Un-Internet

The tech world is in an infinite loop. I’ve written about it so many times, but that’s how it goes with loops. You don’t have to write original stuff more than once. Each time around the loop, at some point, everything comes back into "

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:46:49 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Building Better Single-Page Web Apps

Single-page, application-style websites offer web developers a way to replicate the user experience of native apps, particularly on mobile devices. Indeed, the application design model — that is, a single webpage that never needs to refresh or reloa"

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:14:06 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Support Versus Optimization: Dealing With Mobile Web Browsers

Mobile web development means supporting more than just the headline-grabbing iOS and Android web browsers. Developer Brad Frost argues why you should support, if not optimize, for the entire world of mobile browsers."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:20:18 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Enough With the Apps Already

Dave Winer explains why newspapers and magazines don't need apps, they need good websites designed for reading."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:29:59 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


‘WTF Mobile Web’ Tracks Terrible Mobile Web Design

Building great mobile websites is not easy, even some of the best in the business get it wrong. Now you can learn what not to do from a new website dedicated to calling out the worst of the so-called mobile web."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:36:43 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


The Future of the Web Needs to Include the Past

As much as we all love cutting edge web technologies and modern browsers running on fast hardware, sometimes it’s good to step back and remember what really makes the web great is the fact that anyone — using any browser running on any hardwar"

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:35:46 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


The Boston Globe Embraces Responsive Design

Responsive design is no longer something confined to the portfolio websites of the designers and developers who pioneered the idea. Using CSS media queries to adapt a website’s layout to varying screen sizes is fast becoming a standard part of web d"

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:16 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Google Adds Pagination Tools to its Bag of Indexing Tricks

The Google Webmaster blog has posted an overview of how to use the often overlooked HTML link elements rel=”next” and rel=”prev” to let Google’s spiders know that something on your site is part of a paginated series. WhatR"

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:11:19 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Build Faster Mobile Websites With ‘Adaptive Images’

Responsive design means your website can adapt to any screen size, but without some extra help your images might still clog up the mobile tubes."

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:45:34 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


OpenDNS and Google Working with CDNs on DNS Speedup

A group of DNS providers and content delivery network (CDN) companies have devised a new extension to the DNS protocol that that aims to more effectively direct users to the closest CDN endpoint. Google, OpenDNS, BitGravity, EdgeCast, and CDNetworks are a"

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:05:19 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Faviconist: Create Beautiful Favicons with HTML5

Every website needs a favicon, if for no other reason than to avoid littering your server logs with 404 errors. If you still haven’t got a favicon on your site, check out Faviconist, a new favicon generator from developer Michael Mahemoff. Faviconis"

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:53:54 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Yahoo’s YSlow Now Available for Opera

YSlow, Yahoo’s web development tool designed to help you speed up your site’s page load times by showing you exactly what’s slowing them down, is now available for Opera. YSlow began life as a Firefox extension but has since been ported "

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:18:19 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Popular HTML5 Boilerplate Releases v2.0

The developers behind HTML5 Boilerplate have released version 2.0 of their boilerplate HTML, CSS and JavaScript templates for quickly prototyping HTML5 designs. You can grab a copy of HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 from the HTML5 Boilerplate website. Version 2.0"

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:45:29 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Firefox Security Tool HTTPS Everywhere Hits 1.0

After a year of beta testing the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s HTTPS Everywhere Firefox add-on has reached stable, 1.0 status. The HTTPS Everywhere extension makes it easy to ensure you’re connecting to secure sites by rewriting all request"

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:42:42 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Bad Browser, No Donut

The Monkey is back from an extended vacation spent surveying the state of the internet around the world. I’m happy to report that things are, well, things are good, but far from perfect. Having spent the last eight weeks with unreliable, often very "

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:17:25 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


Take Responsive Design Beyond the (Fluid) Grid

We’ve given you a look at some best practices for responsive design, but beyond the nuts and bolts of @media queries and flexible grids, there is something more subtle, and more important, at work behind the moniker responsive design. Good design ha"

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:12:46 GMT | Tagged: Web Basics


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