With Great (CMS) Power Comes Great Responsibility
One of the biggest advantages of using a content management system (CMS) is that it allows developers to empower site owners with unprecedented control of their website.
Giving website owners the ability to create, edit and manage their web property has many benefits. However, having too many features and site-management capabilities can burden the client and can wreak havoc on a website.
Announcement: Winners of Markup-Service Coding Services
One of our giveaways, which featured PSD to XHTML conversion services from Markup-Service, has just concluded. In this post, you’ll discover the two winners who have won themselves $400 and $300 worth of services that they can spend any way they want on Markup-Service.
10 Ways to Be a More Productive Web Developer
We could all be more productive. There are many things we can do — some big, some small — that will enhance the way we work and improve the outcomes of our activities.
Although I can’t promise that I’ll be able to help you cure all your productivity ailments, I do hope that I can provide you with a few useful, solid tips on streamlining your web development workflow and making every part of the development cycle move quickly and smoothly.
11 jQuery Plugins That Can Enhance Your Typography
There is an array of wonderful jQuery typography plugins that give web designers greater control over their sites’ web typography. At the hands of a capable designer, you can leverage the power of jQuery in web pages to reach a high level of typographic elegance and sophistication.
Below is a list of top jQuery plugins that serve a wide range of purposes related to web typography, from helping you implement @font-face to providing your users with better usability and functionality when it comes to your website’s fonts.
Graphics in Photoshop: 6 Beginner Tips for Web Designers
Graphic design and web design are two distinct visual fields that have different requirements, best practices and methodologies.
For example, it’s much easier in web design to use pixel-based/raster-based file formats (like JPG, GIF or PNG). Conversely, vector files such as EPS and AI — which are scalable without leading to pixelation — are better suited for graphic design, for things like logos that might be used in a variety of sizes. As of yet, vector-based graphics designed for the web (such as SVG or HTML5 Canvas) are not universally and uniformly supported in all browsers.
Announcement: Winners of Subscriptions to New Relic
We recently had a giveaway of five 1-year subscriptions to New Relic, a solid all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience down to the line of application code. Read on to learn who the lucky winners of New Relic subscriptions are.
Announcement: Winners of Distinctive Design Book from Wiley
Recently, we had a giveaway of five copies of Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web published by Wiley as a way to let you all know of this awesome book by one of our top writers, Alexander Dawson. In this post, you’ll see the five lucky Six Revisions readers who’ve won themselves paperback copies of Distinctive Design.
