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• Small Business Owners Must Learn HTML and CSS.

  April 17, 2012

  

  Just about every small business owner knows that they have to have a website. What many don’t know, is that they also have to have basic web design skills … yes, even learning the dreaded code behind the pages: HTML and CSS.

  Why do you need to know HTML and CSS?

  For a few reasons:

  1. To be able to make small changes to your site, without having to call your web designer every two minutes!
  2. To be able to judge (to a certain extent) how long it might take to make a change to your website.
  3. To know what your options are regarding a website.

  … Let’s tackle each of these:

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• How to Learn Web Design and Programming

  April 7, 2012

  

  Everyone has their own style of learning, and because of this, we’ve provide a few different ways for you to learn web design and web programming:

  1. Buy a video package that you can take home and own – for example:

  www.killervideostore.com/video-courses/complete-web-designer.php

  These are video courses that you can either download or have a DVD shipped to you.

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• WordPress, Joomla and Drupal in Web Design

  May 3, 2012

  

  I was recently asked a question about the future of web design:

  I have a short general query about the Future of Web Design: do you think that we are going towards a trend where, particularly with the use of Web environments like WordPress or Joomla, programming skills will be more and more oriented towards updating and customising plugins?

  My answer:

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• Flash CS6 goes HTML5

  April 27, 2012

  Hi,

  As predicted, Flash has now gone HTML5 – yes, you can now export your Flash work to HTML5 using the new Flash CS6.

  I haven’t had a chance to look at it, so I have no comment with regards to how well it works. Nonetheless, this is more evidence that HTML5 is going to be huge in the future of web design and web development – if it isn’t already!

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• HTML5 and its’ Place in Web Design

  April 24, 2012

  

  Hi,

  I just released a video where I discus the growing importance of HTML5 in web design and web programming. Some of the highlights:

  * HTML5 is now supported in all the major browsers.
  * HTML5 was built from a pragmatic point of view – this means it’s really functional!
  * HTML5 has made JavaScript a much more important language to learn.

  You can watch the video below:

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• HTML5 and Academic Shills.

  April 21, 2012

  

  Hey,

  Anyone who has read anything I’ve written (or watched my video blogs,) knows that I can’t stand academics. I was particularly vocal against the Web Standards zealots of the early 2000’s, wherein reality was pushed aside in favor of code purity.

  These nerds would ignore reality – for example:

  * They would ignore how the most popular web browsers would interpret HTML and CSS code – which often times, was in a method contrary to their nerd wet-dreams. As such, they would come up with harebrained hacks to jam in their ‘compliant’ code … hacks that eventually broke in many cases, defeating the supposed original purpose of the Web Standards movement!

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