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What is the most important web hosting feature?
When I was working on Monday’s article I was planning on writing about the web hosting features I thought were the most important to look for in web hosting. But really, price is the one that we all …
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The Price of Web Hosting
I have determined that there are two types of people in this world: the people who care about how much things cost and the people who claim they don’t. Whether we like it or not, price is a factor in …
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David Bowie RIP
Most Interesting Article I Read This Week I grew up in the 70s and David Bowie was a huge part of it. So I was very sad when I learned of his death on Monday morning. Like many of my friends I spent …
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5 Things You Need to Design a Website
It’s very easy to design a website these days. I’m really almost jealous of people coming into it now as all the annoying things that I had to learn to work around finally just work now. I can spend …
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Friday Favorites: 1/8/2016
Most Interesting Article I Read This Week File this under “I wish I’d written that…” You never learned to code? Start here. is a great overview article for beginning web designers and web developers. …
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Learn Design: 3 Reasons for Non-Designers
Even if you don’t think of yourself as a designer, learning how to design websites can be a valuable part of your web content creation process. And when I say learn design, I don’t mean just learning …
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My Bootstrap Book is Now Available
I’m excited to announce that my Bootstrap book Sams Teach Yourself Bootstrap in 24 Hours is available in stores. You can order it online from Amazon and Barnes and Noble or buy it from your local …
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Laugh of the Day: Prime Ranking in SERP, but No Content
Getting high ranking on search engines is usually pretty hard. But if you have invented something new or have a revolutionary product or service, your website might rank well for those search terms …
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Adobe: What's New and What's Not
I had the opportunity to learn more about what Adobe is releasing this week at Adobe MAX. One of the things I like best is the new Capture CC app for iOS. I have used the older capture apps like Shape …
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A Busy Week
I spent the last week working on two projects: the “Learning HTML and CSS Livelessons” and editing the Sams Teach Yourself Bootstrap in 24 Hours book. It was both one of the most fun weeks I’ve ever …
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HTML5 Cheat Sheet
I built an HTML5 cheat sheet for myself, so that I could make sure that my tag libraries were up-to-date and so on. And then when I finished, I realized that this might be something you would like …
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Stop Optimizing and Add Content Instead
So, you’ve built your website, and focused on SEO (search engine optimization) enough to start getting some traffic to it. You’re watching your stats grow week over week and month over month. It’s …
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Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 - What Web Designers Will Like
Adobe has announced a bunch of updates to the Adobe Creative Cloud. The biggest changes are that they are releasing updates to 15 apps within the Creative Cloud as well as including a new service: …
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The Lazy Way to Mobile-Friendly
Or How I Made a Simple Change on a Bootstrap Site to Please Google Like most web designers I know, I am frantically trying to get many websites mobile-friendly in time for Google’s deadline of April …
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No More Napkins
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve grabbed a napkin or piece of scrap paper and scribbled out a mockup for a design idea I have. I have done this with clients, for my own sites, even for ideas that …
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Why Bootstrap?
Since I’ve started writing my latest book, Sams Teach Yourself Bootstrap in 24 Hours, I’ve been asked a bunch of times “why Bootstrap?” Bootstrap Makes Development a Lot Easier Bootstrap is a …
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Starting on my Next Book
I’ve finished 25% of my latest book Sams Teach Yourself Bootstrap in 24 Hours. This has proven to be very fun to write. Bootstrap, if you’re not familiar with it, is a web design framework to help you …
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Language Codes (ISO 639-1)
ISO 639-1 It’s a good practice to include the language code of your web page content in the HTML tag like this: <html lang="en"> If your page is in English, that’s what you’d write, otherwise, you …
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Are you interested in learning responsive web design?
I’m excited to announce that my latest book Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours is out and available in bookstores and online. If you have any questions about the book, or find any …
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How to Write a Web Design Contract
When you’re starting out as a freelancer, you need to know how to write a contract. It can be tempting to do work without a contract, and most web designers have done it a few times. But if you don’t …