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What is HTML 5?

July 29th, 2010

What is HTML 5A quick 5 point list on the new and exciting HTML 5.

1: A revamped web programming language

It will become the standard for all websites.

2: Still under development

It may take until 2022 until it’s fully implemented! Parts of it are tested and stable, and are in use today.

html 5 video support

What is HTML 5?

3: Integrated video support

No more will you have 6 million browser plug-ins to install before you watch videos online. Many browsers have already been updated to handle certain formats in HTML 5!


What is HTML 5?

4: Drag and Drop Support

Imagine being able to just drag your pics and vids to your Facebook page! Nice little time-saver.

HTML 5 geolocation

5: Geolocation Support

Imagine all the google ads you see are for shops within a 10 minute walk from where you sit! If you so consent, you can provide your location information via your IP address and WiFi access point data.

Now you know what to say when someone asks: What is HTML 5?

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You Want A Website, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

February 5th, 2010

And thus begins a 10 part series that will convert web users to web masters. Even you.

Part One: Everyone Has Something to Share with the World

Give me a person and I can give you a website. Not literally of course. What I mean to say is that you have experienced several years of a life so unique that it can only be called yours – even though there’s six and a half billion people in the world. So what? Well, there’s something that you have that nobody else does – and whatever that is will be inherently interesting to a lot of people. For example: » Read more: You Want A Website, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

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Is the Best CMS no CMS?

February 4th, 2010
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Is the Best CMS no CMS?

So what CMS is right for you? There’s a ton out there. Some are free, some you pay for – they all have a ton of really cool features. More and more though, people are turning to a simple, easy to use, google PR friendly blog.

Obviously, if you need something complicated like a shopping cart or a forum you’ll still need a CMS- oh, wait, what’s this. Ecommerce themes? Ecommerce plugins? Wow… WordPress e-Commerce Plugin seems to be the standard for a light and cool little shopping cart. They boast “Over 500,000 + downloads, stability, security and tight WordPress integration make it the right choice for growing your business online.” And why not? Admittedly wordpress is a lot easier to use than Joomla or Drupal CMS or any of the other ones out there. SEO is a lot easier too with so many high PR blogs itching to link to cool content for their followers. I’ve seen blogs rack up a PR6 homepage within a couple months of being online, which is just outstanding.

What about forums? Yet again, several plugins exist. I think feature-wise, a wordpress blog has nearly as much going for it as a CMS does. So why even consider CMS?

For me, what it all comes down to is » Read more: Is the Best CMS no CMS?

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Dirty Floors & Dirty Websites

January 31st, 2010
Dirty Floor!

How clean is your floor?

How quick do you form an opinion? Do you think that you really care what a store’s floor looks like? Would that affect your decision on whether to buy or not? Probably not consciously.  Maybe not at all, but let us marvel at the complexity of the human brain for a sec. Before you even go into a retail store, you just KNOW that there’s probably 10 places within a 30 minute drive you could go to to look at the same item (even ebay and online stores) – you have options as to where to buy, but you end up only buying from one place. Could it be that their floor was the cleanest? » Read more: Dirty Floors & Dirty Websites

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