So let’s say that you have finally designed your website and are getting ready to share it with the whole world. You might be asking yourself well, how do I do just that? Read the rest of this entry »
The Kindle is a cool device that I am sure many people enjoy. However it is fair to say that people will start to see it as the Sony Walkman, versus the Mp3 player. Is this the RIP for the Kindle? Well, the Ipad just changes the entire game. In my opinion the first strategic reaction of Amazon should be to become more competitive in terms of price. Perhaps a promotional price that includes books for free or something that Amazon can offer that Apple can’t at this time. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple iPad - Tablet by Steve Jobs - GDGT
What is the Apple Ipad then?
Well consider the following: Half an inch thin, 1.5 pounds. 9.7 inch display: this is the Ipad from Apple. The newest creation from our Steve Jobs. I just want to say that this guy is a genius. His legacy is amazing and a fantastic visionary full of emotion and obviously and incredible sense of design. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hi everybody! I hope you guys are getting ready for Christmas. This is certainly my favorite season and today we had some snow that made me realize that good things have time tables. Opportunities come and go, and for a small business owner, making the best out of those opportunities is crucial. Many fail to inactivity, many fail to over activity without results. I myself feel like I work a lot and get very little in exchange. Read the rest of this entry »
I have always being the kind of person that I can’t trust what the media says out-of-the-box. Why? Well, because many times I have seen that they are not always telling the truth. More importantly, they don’t call it lying, they just tell you a modified version of the truth. They are extremely good in the use of words and creating news instead of reporting what they really see.
One thing that I have been following lately is the “recovery” of the US economy. If you take a look at the last 9 months of the DOW JONES an index that for the most part represents the US (stock market), you would see that it has been going up and and up and up. Read the rest of this entry »
In the first sessions we have taken a look at how understand the markup and styles. However, it is extremely important to understand that most professional design doesn’t happen directly in code. Most website design happens in the traditional graphic design work-flow.
In this session we will take a look at the basics of CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. And as its name implies, it is a sheet that determines styles in a cascading way.
The styles can be written inline with your markup, at the header of your html documents or in separate pages (sheets). Those sheets get called from the markup and called to style the markup. In other words, the markup stands by itself and looks like a succession of tags that only stand semantically. This helps the purpose of improving the way that search engines read the content. Why? Because they don’t care about the way it looks. They only care about the content.
The cascading means that they are applied in the order that they are encountered. In other words, if you place a style for the heading tags and then later override the directive with another style, the latter would be applied. The cascading also means that they are applied in order of specificity. What that means is that the more specific the selector would be used.
The sheet defines the “style” of the elements of the markup. You select a tag and then you write directive on how you want those tags to be displayed. Read the rest of this entry »
In our previous article we took a look at what is html and how hyper transfer protocol allowed us to see pages. In this article I am going to explain in a simple way how the browser finds and displays your pages.
The browser is a piece of software that sits in your computer and interprets html, css, javascript and some other technologies like images, videos and java applets.
The first step in using a browser is that you type in a URL in the URL bar. The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address that identifies a particular resource on the web. The address is a naming convention and it is composed of different parts:
