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5 Font Management Features in CSS3

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At our blog, we strive to right some posts that will keep developers stay ahead in their process. We keep them informing with latest software release, technologies that perk up the realm or may be at times we share simple tips to rock their tasks.  Today, we are going to share some basic features related to fonts embedded in CSS3, just to give you a quick recap on the daily use of CSS3 in your project and make your work sharp and let it stay in-flow – We know that HTML5 provides basic support for font management, where we developers can specify bold, italics, underline, and other effects. CSS3 takes the support for font to an entirely new level. Well, let us dive into a few CSS3 artifacts related to fonts. font-family This property allows developers to specify the prioritized list of font family names and you can apply this property to almost elements and inheritance of all permitted types.   Example: body {     font-family: sans-serif, Helvetica,...

Web Designers and Developer Need to Know SEO – Top 9 Reasons

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Web designers strongly oppose search engine optimization services . Not something new. Web designers love to elevate brand on a screen with an aesthetic design and communicate the idea to others. Mark this, when web designers try to pass on the message to other humans, it must access the cruel eye of a robot, as it does not understand aesthetics. But again, web designers have given up the path to please this so-called robot called SEO. We came across an article in WebDesign Ledger , which shares the top 9 best practices to make the web designers know what is SEO and how it can help them to keep their creation (websites) in track. We made a short summary and our own assessment to stop the designers from ignoring SEO. SEO - What Is It? SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a strategy to develop and improve your website so that it gets a pretty search engine rank. We know that the habit of the 75% of the searchers is to scroll the first page and look for the desirable co...

8 Learning Resources to Speed up Node.js Usage

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JavaScript developers have been looking for a server-side solution that would help them to leverage their favorite backing language on the backend. Over the years, people came up with a number of options and made developers acquaint with - Aptana Jaxer, APE and Narwahl. However, those never generated traction to make them widely adopted across all platforms. Finally, in 2009 the wait ended after Ryan Dahl announced Node.js to the world at JSConf.eu, cementing Node.js as the go-to JavaScript server. Now it is the most important piece of software that companies like eBay are using it to build out some of their most complex systems. Node.js has become a solid end-to-end solution for JavaScript developers that let them take advantage of JavaScript to build full-stack web apps. To keep JavaScript developers updated with the latest website and mobiledevelopment in Node.js and to solve queries on various structures and functions we have coupled a few learning resources. Node.js...

Xamarin Now Provide Extended Support to iOS App Developers

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Have you looked into the latest version of Xamarin? The namesake development platform is now having additional support for iOS mobile app developers for sharing codes across Apple OS, Android and Windows. New Xamarin version 3 allows the devs to use C# to create native apps for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows. Moreover, the most important feature in this respect is the addition of Designer for iOS. Xamarin feels that the mobile app developers of today will embrace the alternative to Apple's Xcode Interface Builder. This will help them to stay in a single environment for the entire development process.   Distinct Advantage of Designer for iOS Developers can build and modify iOS 6 and 7 and their so-called storyboard files. This tool helps to assemble the different screens that make up an iOS application as well as the navigation path embedded in them. The upgrade is not just about iOS, but the ability to share code to multiple OS also improved in the version 3. ...

Website Mistakes Not to Make

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We being a web designing company seriously felt this issue when we caught up a recent post at The Next Web. It was explaining seven elaborate mistakes that website designers and developers often make when they get down to design their idea. It touted the fact that a website providing desktop only experience makes users go nuts if it has a poor mobile experience. That is not the end as responsive design is not all about website becoming mobile optimized, it is something more than that. You have more UX blunders that make us go crazy over those poor-performing websites. Signing Up Before Browsing Website – This top-notch error makes users angry. Maybe a way to build to email list, but you loses more than you gain. You Just Forgot the Mobile – Make website to share on multiple screens such as mobile or tablets, as people no longer browse only on their desktop. Those Ridiculous Forms – Filing out an online form on Smartphone, that is ridiculous. Eliminate or tri...

Facebook’s Reach & Identity Vs Twitter’s Real-Time Stream

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The battle is on! Facebook VS Twitter Real time stream of Twitter made it a de facto place and Facebook takes it on soon. Facebook’s VP of Media Partnerships believes his company has two big advantages if the battle warms up: a huge audience reach and a real identity. Gosh, this is a big move on the checkered board against Twitter.  According to a recent post published in Techcrunch shows that Facebook’s integration of real-time streaming need a lot more effort. Yet, what Facebook is going to do to stay one step ahead by – pouring resources into its new Public Content Solutions team, hiring TV execs, acquiring startups that analyze real-time event chatter, and building new APIs so that news outlets can visualize its data and will remind users about the right locations to discuss those world events. That’s a big move, though and several of these efforts will come to action with some cool partnerships. Facebook announces some of their partner’s name – N...

Heartbleed Threat Still Exists Across 300,000 Servers

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Two months before when Heartbleed was spot, and at least 600,000 servers were vulnerable to this security flaw. Now two months has crossed Heartbleed bug continues to scare at least 300,000 servers. Heartbleed, discovered by a Google engineer, caused widespread panic as it had a strong impact on the OpenSSL. In addition, if further exploited it can get on to leak account login details and passwords on the Web.  What made this bug different from other bugs? – OpenSSL framework is an open source project used by thousands of sites online and its attack left their servers and customer details exposed to the Web. As soon as Heartbleed publicized, and founding out the number of website facing the threat, security menders started to work along. After working day and night, in the next one month 318,239 were left exposed. However, according to the latest news that appeared on ZDNet we see that 309,197 servers remain unprotected . As well as a patch rate plummets from double ...