A career in web development is lucrative, exciting and ever changing. It requires a particular set of well-honed skills and a knowledge of languages that you’ll need to keep updating, year after year. In return, you’ll get to build really...
This is by far the most commonly asked question by those just about to enter the world of coding. But guess what? It’s the worst question to ask. It’s okay – we’ll forgive you, because we know you don’t know...
The best web developers in the world have pretty cool jobs. When they’re not building awesome things for the web they’re giving talks at cutting edge tech conferences, leading experimental open source projects, and enjoying their six figure salaries however...
Earlier this year, Google rolled out a new open-source architecture for the development of blazing-fast, mobile-friendly webpages. Known as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), is essentially a framework that webmasters can use to build webpages. It lives up to its “accelerated”...
Bootstrap is a powerful HTML & CSS front-end framework for building responsive websites. Bootstrap’s unsophisticated learning curve make it a great framework to master for beginner web developers, but encourages professional developers to consider taking a more native approach for...
While there’s no rule stating that you must validate your Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), doing so will almost certainly prove beneficial. By running your code through a validator, you’ll be able to check it for syntax errors and other problems....
Not Including Alt Text for Images When uploading and using images on your website, be sure to include the alt text attribute. This is an all-too-common mistake made by web developers. HTML 4.01 made the alt text attribute a requirement,...
How to Set up Streaming Video Content in HTML5 Now that you’ve learnt all the basic components of HTML5, It’s time to wrap up this discussion by looking at how you can set up streaming video content. You’ll also learn...
How to Design HTML Forms with CSS So far, we’ve discussed how we can create forms in HTML using the <FORM> element along with its attributes and how to use them. We’ve also looked at different form elements such as...
Here are 10 important techniques for writing clean code, regardless of what programming language you use. 1. Keep it Simple, Stupid The first and the most basic tip is to keep it as simple and readable as possible. The more...