web-development

As if things weren't difficult enough for developers, here's a list of things to add on to your current daily work flow. If you've been a we...read more

Missing images on a website are one of the most common issues that web developers face. Particularly if you don't really have a well thought...read more

You might have seen it promoted as a 'best practice' often times on the internet. But setting the alt property on an <img tag should pret...read more

MDN has been a huge part of my development career ever since it appeared on the internet in 2005. And the same is true for alot of you readi...read more

Heroku is a cloud application platform that first launched in 2007 with a single programming language in mind, Ruby....read more

Before browsers had tabs, websites would often open new webpages in their own instances of the browser. You would eventually come to know th...read more

If a monthly payment plan is what is holding you up from launching your website or portfolio, then you'll be relieved to know that there are...read more

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) has long been the go to method of transferring files on the internet. It's how you uploaded files to your share...read more

Fonts have become so increasingly complex during the past decade to the point where you probably need to set up a development meeting with y...read more

Performance and optimization are important for generating a good user experience on any website. Aside from ensuring that you have properly ...read more

A pretty cool feature that you can add to your file upload elements, if you are working with images, is the ability to render a preview on t...read more

In the past, fading out an element in JavaScript involved literally looping thousands of times per second and gradually reducing the opacity...read more

Despite the rapid growth of the internet and the huge demand for skilled web developers these days, many companies still have set in stone r...read more

First off, the day has to start with coffee. Strong coffee. Some would argue even the strongest coffee. And that's because you know what's c...read more

Performance on a website is often left to last and at times ignored by developers. This is mainly because it's surprisingly not a simple or ...read more

The developer console in a browser is one of the most valuable tools for any web designer and web developer. Not only does it tell you what'...read more

The following is a list of the the currently deprecated HTML tags that you should probably stop using in your markup.While they may not be t...read more

As the HTML specification gets updated year after year, new tags get added and old tags get deprecated. And it's hard to keep up sometimes w...read more

Blogs are still one of the best ways to stay up to date with the latest happenings in the realm of code and software engineering. Mainly bec...read more

I run many different kinds of analysis on this website in order to check for weaknesses and to patch them up whenever possible. One of those...read more

These days, thanks in part to browser default security settings, you really can't go without having an SSL certificate installed on your web...read more

If you are relatively new to web development then this list is for you. It is my top 5 most used (probably) apps installed on my work laptop...read more

I'll start by saying that there is no native method for dark mode in HTML and CSS just yet. So whatever method you end up using will have to...read more

You can pretty much learn anything online these days if you know where to look and if you are willing to pay a buck or two in the process....read more

Cached files are both a blessing and a curse depending on what your current intent is. A blessing because it allows for websites to load muc...read more

Performance on the web is important in order to provide a fast and smooth overall web surfing experience to your site visitors....read more

Anybody that really knows me, knows that I have a taste for baked goods. These days as I age (age well), they tend to be of the glute...read more

Just before beginning to write this post, I had an entirely different post in mind. I was going to write about the W3C (The World Wide Web C...read more

A programmer's main job in their career is to write 'code'. To create variables, functions and looping mechanisms to accomplish some form of...read more

This is a popular question that I often get asked from people who are familiar with coding, but not quite skilled enough or confident enough...read more

Demand for talented web developers is on the rise. And if you are one, then you might not just be waltzing into your next job interview so ...read more

While in the past it seemed like you could do just fine without the hassle of setting up an SSL certificate, it seems that as of late that ...read more

Most people know what a website is from a visual perspective. But most people, including many tech people, have no idea what a website actu...read more

I have auto-correct turned on all the time on my phone, but I hate it. Can't stand it. And for the life of me, I can't understand why I......read more

A while back the twitter hashtag #talkpay went for a viral spin and people were encouraged to post their job titles and salary in an atte...read more

Making a website can get complex. And I mean, a full website, not a blog or a site with static content. I mean more a website with a busine...read more

When you think of a website, you think of WordPress nowadays. And why wouldn't you, WordPress runs 23% of all websites. With so many online...read more

So you want to make a website. You have an idea or bits and pieces of an idea, you get a cheap hosting account and a $9.99 domain name and ...read more

In my 6 years writing software professionally and countless others non-professionally I've come across many of the same scenarios many a ti...read more

Site optimization is usually not too important until you have a good flow of traffic coming your way. However, your sites page speed might ...read more