It has been discussed lots of time before, but mobile devices are really popular. As a front-end developer, one of the challenges in developing for mobile devices is that sometimes things look different depending on the platform. jQuery Mobile can change that. What is jQuery Mobile? jQuery Mobile is a touch-friendly mobile framework developed by the jQuery project team. It...
Last week, I wrote “More Useful Tools in Web Development” where I discussed some tools that I recently found to be useful in my development process. Today, I will focus more on Twitter Bootstrap and share my thoughts as a front end web developer on this framework. Overview Bootstrap was developed by Twitter. Bootstrap 3 was recently released in August...
Since Google announced that page speed is a factor that will influence your website ranking, here at Blueprint we tried to pay more attention to websites optimization. Even though optimization should be done anyway sometimes somebody have to push you harder. Now, we always keep an eye how the website is performing and adjust it if something doesn’t go well....
Being a front end web developer, I use a lot of CSS to make websites look the way they do. Last week, I wrote about semantics in front end web development. Today, I will write about CSS concepts, specificity and inheritance. CSS Specificity Specificity in CSS refers to how specific a CSS selector is. The list below shows the levels...
There are many concepts in front end web development. One that seems to be thrown around everywhere is semantics. In today’s article, I will examine the semantics of front end development and what it means. So what are semantics? Personally, I think semantics is hard to define. Merriam-Webster defines semantics as “the study of meanings.” In front end web development,...
It is important to make websites more attractive and interactive to users. One of the ways to do that is to add video and audio files. HTML5 introduced a lot of cool new features and tags, and some of the new tags are <audio> and <video> tags. How to Use Video and Audio Tags The <audio> and <video> tags have...
Using social media is becoming increasingly important in establishing and promoting your brand. As a front end developer, it is important to know the basics of social media to work seamlessly with a team to achieve marketing goals. If you have a CMS installed on your website (I recommend WordPress), you could easily install a plugin that fits your needs....
Recently, I had a chance to try out Adobe Edge Animate. As a front-end web developer, I tend to work mostly with text editors and FTP clients more than the “design” programs. It was an interesting opportunity to work with more design-type product. I had reviewed 3DCart before and enjoyed it, so I decided to do another review post. What...
In beginning my time here at Blueprint, I have learned a tremendous amount about web development and all that it encompasses. From HTML to CSS to scripting and functionality, there is so much that goes into a website that I had never considered, and it all works together behind the scenes to make a website functional and attractive. As I...
Responsive design seems to be everywhere these days. I previously shared some responsive design tricks as well as some other useful tips on responsive design. Today, I am going to offer some more CSS tips that will be especially handy for responsive web development. CSS Media Queries for Retina Displays Retina displays have a higher pixel ratio than regular screens....
