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Hong Kong - Flickr 上的相片集. Registration. 9 Powerful Free Infographic Tools To Create Your Own Infographics - DATA VISUALIZATION. What is Responsive Web Design and Why Librarians Need to Know About it. “Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows.

What is Responsive Web Design and Why Librarians Need to Know About it

Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we’ll build websites for the decade to come.” – Jeffrey Veen Responsive Web Design (RWD) is, in a nutshell, all about designing your website so that it can be optimally viewed on a wide range of devices such as tablets, smartphones, laptops, etc. The idea is to design and maintain one website that can be viewed on all. Top online graphic design programs will likely cover Web design principles including Responsive Web Design, but you don’t have to be a student to learn about it. Responsive Web Design revolves around of three core features: Media Queries are used to detect the type of device which is accessing the website, its capabilities, and the dimensions of the browser being used.

Examples of Responsive Web Design (Test these sites out by adjusting your browser size and watch them respond!) Lancaster University Smashing Magazine. 5 key forces driving open source today. Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same.

5 key forces driving open source today

Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, adoption-led marketing by innovative entrepreneurs, and market reaction against an ever more abusive monopolist were key factors shaping the direction of open source. Today's open source movement is more mature, and the trends underlining it are more nuanced and widely engaged. The revolution has had a meaningful impact, and to treat open source as if it is still about saving a few bucks on a software license or socking it to Microsoft is to misunderstand how far the open source movement has come. The following five trends are key drivers of today's open source communities and projects. From governance to emerging revenue models, they paint a picture of an industry evolving to see the value of the freedoms at the heart of the open source movement. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013. ORLANDO, Fla., October 23, 2012 View All Press Releases Analysts Examine Top Industry Trends at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 21-25 in Orlando Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013.

Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013

Analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 25. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or become suitable for a wider range of uses.

Mr. The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 include: Strategic Big DataBig Data is moving from a focus on individual projects to an influence on enterprises’ strategic information architecture. 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About. Though it has some competition, YouTube remains the premier video site on the web.

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About

With a staggering amount of videos uploaded every day, some people even make a living from the service. 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube Here are 10 great alternatives to YouTube, although the "better than" is obviously open to debate... Read More No matter if you’re a casual YouTube user or go looking for the craziest channels you can find, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube to make it just right for you. Let’s look at some URL tricks to get more out of the service. 1. Typically, when you copy a link to a YouTube video, it starts from the beginning. You can do this in a couple of ways. Youtube.com/watch? Viewbix. LinkedTube - Video Links For YouTube. Issuu - You Publish.