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Web Design Analogy

Website vs. Hollywood Celebrity
Holistic Web Media has used an interesting analogy to make a comparison between a website and a Hollywood celebrity: "A website is much like a hollywood celebrity on the red carpet." Read more ...

Web Designers and TV Broadcasts
Based on Louis Lazaris' analogy, there are lessons that web developers / designers can learn from television broadcasts. Read more ...

The Beatles and Design
According to Oleg Mokhov, an electronic musician and a web design enthusiast, there are five things you can learn about design from the Beatles. Read more ...

Universal Design
Kristine Schachinger uses house building analogies in her discussion of structured design.. Read more ...

Art Direction and Design
This article has used a magazine layout as an analogy in order to emphasize the distinction between the acts of designing and art directing. Read more ...

HTML & CSS General

What I Learned About the Web in 2011
Here is an article recently published on ALA, A List Apart. It is a collection of their readers' experiences and perceptions in state of Web design during 2011. Read more ...

Taming Lists
The above article was published on 'A List Apart' by Mark Newhouse in 2002. In the fast-growing Web industry, it's quite a long time ago. The listing techniques are well-known today and have been extensively used in almost every site. Furthermore, CSS has offered a few new selectors which can make lists look even more appealing.

However, Mark Newhouse's article is still absolutely worth a read, especially for those web designers who do not master this technique thoroughly. As mentioned somewhere on 'Max Design': "The Taming Lists article paved the way for styling lists." It remains for me a classical . Enjoy reading! Read more ...

Obsolete Features in HTML5
The introduction of HTML5 and accompanying changes in what now constitutes 'valid' and 'invalid' markup, has made the task of validating pages in W3C's HTML5 validator difficult. Read more ...

CSS Floats 101
The float property, once well understood and utilized properly, is a huge asset to web designers/developers working with HTML and CSS. Read more ...

Using CSS3 : Interview with Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke, a well-known British web designer, stresses the importance of utilizing creative opportunities offered by CSS3 and not worrying too much about browser campatibility issues. Read more ...

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News around the Web

Joomla 2.5 released
The Joomla Project announced the release of Joomla 2.5.0 on 24 January 2012. This version is the next update from version 1.7. On 24 February 2012, version 1.7 will reach end of its life. Read more ...

Google To Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Mozilla
Mozilla and Google have signed a new three-year agreement according which Google will remain as default search engine for Firefox users. According to a report on AllThingsD, Google will pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually or nearly $1 billion in total for this deal. Read more ...

Detecting Attack Patterns in Data
Through a number of different research efforts in the cyber world, experts are trying to profile and find out attack patterns at the digital crime scenes. Read more ...

IBM's Watson vs. Harvard students
IBM's Watson supercomputer squeeze out a victory in a "Jeopardy" quiz-show with a trio of H.B.S. students. Read more ...

W3C Changes with the Changing Web
Based on the recent meetings, W3C will focus on the future convergence of Web and television, and a new strategic direction towards incoming request changes. Read more ...

Is Plus Replacing Picasa?
It seems that Google is phasing out Picasa in favor of Google+ Photos. Read more ...

Browsers News

Firefox 9.0 Was Released
Mozilla released Firefox 9.0 on December 20, 2011. What is new in the latest version? Read more ...

Mozilla; More Than Just Firefox
David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging CEO, clarifies what Mozilla, as a nonprofit organization, is doing. Read more ...

Microsoft Tried To Acquire its Competitor
According to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, Microsoft tried to buy Netscape during the two giants' browser war back in 1994. Read more ...

Chrome 13 Was Released
Chrome continues to gain ground on a global scale. The new version of Chrome includes three new features. Read more ...

Browser Trends
According to market share estimates for desktop browsers, the number of Firefox 5 users has increased by 400% in August 2011. Read more ...