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The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019

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It might not seem important for web developers to learn programming languages. After all, HTML and CSS can develop some incredible sites all on their own. But JavaScript, PHP, and Swift can all extend the functionality of your web page significantly in was that CSS can’t hope to accomplish. Plus, the logic of programming is […]

Design Web Tables Without Screwing It Up – A 2019 Guide

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Web tables are antiquated technology. If you don’t know this, welcome to the club that everyone else joined in 2010. Tables as a layout tool are a hack, a corruption of HTML used to create layouts that the code hadn’t thought of yet. When tables were added in HTML in 1996, this was in the […]

Choosing the Best Image Format in 2019: WebP, SVG Vs. Everyone

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What, did you think JPEG would live forever? It was introduced in 1992, more than twenty-five years ago! The modern generation of web developers uses WebP for images, not the archeological specimen that is JPEG. Here’s a quick introduction to WebP, SVG, and why they’re better. TL;DR: they’re way smaller, producing faster, and more responsive […]

The Developer’s Guide to the WebP Image Format

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The WebP image format is a new image encoding format that’s especially appealing to web developers. It can encode a high density of information within a given file size, allowing higher quality images at lower file sizes. Considering that images make up about 60-percent of the web, lower image file sizes mean faster loading pages, […]

32 Creative and Funny Error Pages

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There aren’t a lot of places on a web design where you get to tell jokes. Error pages and source code are one of the few places you can hide your humor. Spelunkers of source code know you can find job listings, inside jokes, Monty Python references and more with the “View Source” button. Error […]

Setting Up Linux for Children

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If you’ve been around computers for a while, you might associate Linux with a certain stereotype of a certain type of computer user. How do you know someone uses Linux? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. But don’t let Linux’s bad press derail your experimentation! It’s the last frontier for customization in desktop machines, and it’s […]

The Best Ways to Dispose of Your iPhone, iPad, or Mac

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Fall is a wonderful time of year for Apple fans. It’s the time of year when we all start to actually get our hands on the new iPhones and other devices Apple launched during their fall event. And with new devices comes the need to do something with the old devices. Rather than letting your […]