The web design community has been hearing about the need to develop new technologies that could function with older web browsers since 2004. The World Wide Web consortium has targeted 2014 as the date for full recommendation of HTML 5 and they are developing a test suite to evaluate its operability. Back in 2006 noted software engineer and HTML 5 editor Tim Hickson targeted 2022 as a possible full recommendation date. It seems that 2014, by that standard, is highly optimistic. This may be confusing to those less involved in…

HTML 5 is here and for all intents and purposes it isn’t going anywhere except forward. The target date for full recommendation is in 2014 but many parts of it are already being used by web developers. The newest version of the markup language is given high marks by most for usability. The original HTML was produced in 1990 by Opera software. Its primary purpose was to build and show content on the web. The eventual successor of the original language, HTML 4, has been available since 1997. The development…

YouTube embedded video has some strong points that make it a great way to drive more customers to your website. That being said there are some major advantages to Flash as well. Adobe software has been around for a long time and has seen many improvements. Someone like a real estate agent may be best served by the options Flash offers. Virtual tours are very popular and pictures of available homes can easily be made a part of your site using Flash. It’s easy to take houses and buildings or…

Tabs can be really useful especially for content-crowded web sites. You can save plenty of space just by placing your block of content in tabs and displaying one block at a time in the same place. The content that you break-up in tabs, though, should be somehow relevant. For example, you can separate in tabs content about Weather Forecasting; tabs could be cities in your country, or forecast days.