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CSS Tutorial Blob Sallad Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers The project 'Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on this page, has a new url ( a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources. The reason for changing the basic concept of this project was a huge number of suggestions and links, which have overflooded my mailbox recently. Over the last few days, a new project was created and updated. Please update your bookmarks! How did it begin? This page is actualized once a week. This list was created with the help of many web designers and enthusiasts from Germany and United States, but mostly it was created by myself. Thanks!

CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up) : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog This is the last article in the series of article comparing common CSS techniques to their SVG counterparts. This article is a roundup of several CSS and SVG solutions, as opposed to being an article comparing one solution that can be achieved using either CSS and SVG. There are already a bunch of excellent articles out there that cover the details for each of these solutions, so we will get an overview of each solution and link to those articles for each section as we go. I highly recommend you check them all out. Let’s start with what was one of the most controversial CSS vs SVG topics in the past year: icon systems. Icon Fonts vs SVG Icons I’ve personally used icon fonts only twice and neither was on a client project. Icons embedded using icon fonts are not semantic: an icon is an image or a figure and yet, with icon fonts, it is marked up using empty <div>s or <span>s, and the content of the icon is created as “pseudo-content” in the style sheet. SVGs are more semantic. CSS Charts

10 Websites Every Web Designer Should Know About There are a number of websites that you, as a web designer, will use on a daily basis making life easier and making you more efficient. Here is a list of 10 websites (in no particular order) that I find useful and am constantly using. I'm also interested in what websites you swear by and use all the time, so please share in the comments below. 1. iStockphoto iStockphoto is a collection of royalty free photos, illustrations, video and audio. iStockphoto saves you time and money. I find it really useful for illustration graphics. 2. Checks the availability of domain names using Ajax. Very handy when you have a brain wave and need to check if the domain name is available. 3. Smashing Magazine is the ultimate web design blog. If you need to know how to do something, or need some inspiration, Smashing Magazine will undoubtedly have an article on it somewhere. 4. A question and answer site for programmers. 5. SEOmoz is one of the best search engine optimisation related websites on the net. 6. 7. 8.

SVG vs canvas: how to choose (Windows) Starting at a high level, this topic provide a comparison of SVG and Canvas, then proceeds to discuss a number of comparative code examples, such as ray tracing and green screening. Note In order to view many of the examples contained within the topic, you must use a browser, such as Windows Internet Explorer 9, that supports the SVG and Canvas elements. Introduction HTML is evolving to provide better, standard, richer graphics to help improve customer experiences. creates an opportunity for web developers to use standards-based web technologies to create graphically rich interactive sites and applications without having to use specialized technologies or write browser-specific code. Vector Graphics Vector graphics are not a new concept. Vector graphics range in complexity from simple to moderate to extremely complex. Simple - Callout in a document or illustration.Moderate - Illustrations such as charts, diagrams and maps.Complex - Documents such as those used for engineering. In the Office

New elements in HTML 5 Development of HTML stopped in 1999 with HTML 4. The W3C focused its efforts on changing the underlying syntax of HTML from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to XML, as well as completely new markup languages like Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XForms, and MathML. Browser vendors focused on browser features like tabs and RSS readers. Web designers started learning CSS and the JavaScript™ language to build their own applications on top of the existing frameworks using Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax). Recently, the beast came back to life. This new version of HTML—usually called HTML 5, although it also goes under the name Web Applications 1.0—would be instantly recognizable to a Web designer frozen in ice in 1999 and thawed today. At the same time, this proverbial unfrozen caveman Web designer would encounter some new and confusing elements. That's not a happy coincidence. Structure Listing 1. Even with proper indenting, it's a fairly confusing mass of nested divs. aside

How Funding Works - Splitting The Equity With Investors - Infographic A hypothetical startup will get about $15,000 from family and friends, about $200,000 from an angel investor three months later, and about $2 Million from a VC another six months later. If all goes well. See how funding works in this infographic: First, let’s figure out why we are talking about funding as something you need to do. This is not a given. If you know the basics of how funding works, skim to the end. Every time you get funding, you give up a piece of your company. Splitting the Pie The basic idea behind equity is the splitting of a pie. When Google went public, Larry and Sergey had about 15% of the pie, each. Funding Stages Let’s look at how a hypothetical startup would get funding. Idea stage At first it is just you. Co-Founder Stage As you start to transform your idea into a physical prototype you realize that it is taking you longer (it almost always does.) Soon you realize that the two of you have been eating Ramen noodles three times a day. Registering the Company

Meme Creation Resources To Start You On Your Way To Internet Fame Posted by Jared Carrizales on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 · 1 Comment inShare Move over infographics, it’s time for memes to have their 15 minutes of fame. With the successes of companies like Virgin Media, SEOmoz, and even schools like ASU and the University of Wyoming, marketers have started to ride the meme wave. Unfortunately, creating the next “Success Kid” or “The Most Interesting Man In The World” is probably going to take some creativity-or at the very least a flash of genius. Meme Generators These are very straight forward and easy to get started. Know Your Meme Cheezburger Quick Meme Meme Generator Motivator Making Your Meme Once you have your generator of choice picked out, it becomes a matter of finding a meme that will compliment an idea that you have. A Brief Overview of Internet Memes & How You Can Quickly Create Your Own 5 Internet Websites And Tools To Create Meme Comics Making A Meme Comic With Rage Builder Marketing Your Meme How To Use Memes To Build Easy Backlinks and Traffic

Media :: Developers :: We Buy iPhone Apps! We works with App Developers to Market and Promote their Apps. No costs to the App Developers Who is Wizzard Media? We are the largest podcasting company in the world, with over 1.64 Billion downloads in 2010, mostly via iTunes. That's over 4 million a day! Our studies show that the people who are active in iTunes for podcasting are a perfect target audience for app promotion.

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