Design
HTML5: Improving Forms With Autocomplete
To complete form input faster, browsers offer the option of autocompletion. The entries made by the user are saved and suggested when the same or a similar form with the same ...
Monthly Archive: October 2015
Development
ES6 for Now: Template Strings
ES6 is the future of JavaScript and it is already here. It is a finished specification, and it brings a lot of features a language requires to stay competitive with the needs of the web ...
Business Online
INK Creates Responsive Email Newsletters That Arrive
The first sentence on the website of the provider Ink tells us what their goal is: „Quickly create responsive HTML emails that work on any device and client. Even Outlook.“ With this ...
Business Online
Canva: Create Online Graphics Easily
Not every website operator is a good graphic designer at the same time. Does that mean that they are forced to forgo illustrations and images? No, it doesn’t. Nowadays there is ...
Apps
Designing Web Code in a Native App
Over the years, I’ve heard developers say, “you can always tell when it’s a web app,” insinuating that web apps are lacking when compared with native apps. These same folks will claim ...
Essentials
20 Free Icon Sets for Immediate (Commercial) Use
Good icons and fonts have a lot of things in common. One being that you can never have enough of either of them. To strengthen your supply of good symbols we have again surfed the web ...
(Free) Services
Social Media: Eight Hand-picked Image Tools
In general, images in social media posts help to achieve greater success than plain text posts. Experiments have shown that posts supported by images get a larger amount of clicks, ...
Cartoons
Cartoon: Fit in Typography?
Are you a professional designer or developer? If you are I am sure you got your dander up more than once on these people poaching on your stamping ground while not even having a hunting ...
Development
Vorlon.js: Focus on DOM Explorer
In April 2015, our team of engineers and tech evangelists at Microsoft released vorlon.js—an open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your ...
Business Online
Five Reasons Why Video on Websites is a Good Idea
An image is worth a thousand words. This is even truer when it comes to moving pictures. Written content in many cases is not sufficient to gain attention in the world wide web. Videos ...
Design
5 Ways to Make Your Site Rock on the Modern Web (…and Microsoft Edge too)
Edge is Microsoft’s new web browser sporting a new rendering engine – EdgeHTML – and an underlying OS to boot in Windows 10. Since upgrades from Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will be free ...
Boilerplates & Other Tools
Simbla: Responsive Websites Made Easy
Thanks to numerous website builders and homepage generators you can quickly and easily click together a website. You wouldn’t even need to know HTML, CSS or JavaScript to do so. ...
Development
IBM BlueMix Cloud Contest: Are You a Real JavaScript and Node.js Pro?
Do you like yourself a good challenge? Do you feel like a real JavaScript pro? Is node.js in your veins? If so, IBM has a more than interesting contest for you. Although it has already ...
Apps
Raygun: Affordable Crash Reporting for Any App
The job of developers is great. They are always creating something new. Whether it is a web app based on PHP or a mobile app for iOS or Android or just about any other thinkable app for ...
Cartoons
Cartoon: Photoshop Magic Galore
Clients tend to think Photoshop is not just very easy to handle but also almost capable of anything you want it to be. All of that with a few simple mouse clicks of course. The creative ...