HTML5 Charset

I was wandering which Charset does the HTML5 spec advices for us developers to use in our documents and UTF-8 is the advisable one.

HTML5 Books

In my quest to the ever evolving process of learning HTML5 i have made some research for HTML5 books and i came up with a list of those that looked more promising.

IE8 HTML5 support

The web is an exiting medium for a long time and with HTML5 coming a long way to a stage where is markup elements are supported in most popular browsers.

Recently i have listen to the Big Web Show podcast hosted by Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman, in which they interviewed Jeremy Keith a well known personality of the web design community and author of HTML5 for Web Designers its most recent book.

Jquery xml tutorial

Jquery being a fantastic javascript library it has an easy api to deal with ajax.
Part of ajax is based on xml, so parsing xml is one of the core elements of ajax requests.

The overall idea is that we request xml data via “ $.ajax “ function and the response generated is a DOM(document object model) tree with which we can easily traverse utilizing the power of Jquery.

Page Fade In effect with Jquery

This is a tutorial in which i show how to add a fade in effect to your pages, this gives a nice feel to a website.

The other a client ask me to have every page fading in when they load and i thought that is easy and if you notice google home page also has a smooth fade in effect when the user moves the mouse over the page, on this example the will be fading in as soon as the page loads and the best of all it only takes a few lines of code due to the fact the we will be using a great Javascript Library Jquery

This will be short and easy.

Grid tool to design in the browser

This is a quick post sharing a helpful tool to design in the browser

Web design 101: Wireframes

Wireframes is a method which will help clients and designers to have a better overview of the goals and increase the insight of the project.

Web design 101: Page Layout

On this web design 101 article i explain the importance of web page layout and some features you need to consider when designing a web site.

Web design 101: Introduction to web design

Web design 101, is a series of posts in which I publish articles related to web design.
I will develop this series with the goal of leading the readers to the stage where they will be able to design and create their own web sites.

In this first article I introduce 5 core elements used to develop any website.

Insanely great

For a while that i wanted to publish a post ,about the power of video in today’s web, but i did not had the inspiration for it but this has change when i saw this…