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Thursday, May 13, 2010

HTML5 & CSS3 Readiness

As I'm sure you've heard, Steve Jobs has been beating the drum about HTML5 as the standard of the future. I know of one Flash coders who's a little worried... I'm personally not convinced that Flash is dead. It serves a specific purpose that HTML5 and jQuery won't be able to fill 100%. Also, big brands love the "story" they can tell with Flash.

So the question is, how many HTML5 features are supported by today’s web browser?

Check our this interactive graph for details >>

Filed Under: Bookmarks, Coding, Tools

Saturday, May 8, 2010

50 best female web designers around the world

From my point of view, female designers and coders don't get enough press and they sure don't get enough speaking gigs at design/coding focused conferences/events. So it's great to see lists popping up that highlight the talented women in the web world.

The following list, curated by indeziner, highlights indeziner's 50 best female web designers from around the world.

>> 50 best female web designers around the world

I recognize a couple ExpressionEngine designers on the list. I'd be happy to code any of their projects. Keep up the great work ladies!

Filed Under: Bookmarks, Coding

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

HTML5 New Tags

Check out this article about the new tags that will available in HTML5.

• <article> tag defines an article


• <aside> tag defines content aside from the page content


• <audio> tag defines sound content


• <canvas> tag defines graphics


• <command> tag defines a command button


• <datalist> tag defines a dropdown list


• <details> tag defines details of an element


• <dialog> tag defines a dialog (conversation)


• <embed> tag defines external interactive content or plugin


• <figure> tag defines a group of media content, and their caption


• <footer> tag defines a footer for a section or page


• <header> tag defines a header for a section or page


• <hgroup> tag defines information about a section in a document


• <keygen> tag defines a generated key in a form


• <mark> tag defines marked text


• <meter> tag defines measurement within a predefined range


• <nav> tag defines navigation links


• <output> tag defines some types of output


• <progress> tag defines progress of a task of any kind


• <rp> tag is used in ruby annotations to define what to show browsers that do not support the ruby element.


• <rt> tag defines explanation to ruby annotations.


• <ruby> tag defines ruby annotations.


• <section> tag defines a section


• <source> tag defines media resources


• <time> tag defines a date/time


• <video> tag defines a video

Filed Under: Coding

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

MediaGirl Spotlight

A few weeks ago devot:ee started to run a "Spotlight" series of articles where members of the ExpressionEngine development community talk about their work. Take a few minutes to visit this great website to read a spotlight article featuring one of our ExpressionEngine projects!

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Thursday, December 10, 2009

My Start As An ExpressionEngine Consultant

My start as an ExpressionEngine consultant was initially out of frustration. About five years ago I worked on my first ExpressionEngine website. The site was a personal project I created to consolidate all the "cool" jobs in New Mexico into one central location. It was my contribution to the growth of New Mexico's creative class.

At the time I was using Moveable Type for the project and was getting frustrated because I had to manually remove old jobs every month and then had to republish the whole website. After a quick online search, I found ExpressionEngine which had the ability to expire entries. That's all I needed to make the switch really. Since that day, just about every project coming out of the MediaGirl's office has been built on the ExpressionEngine CMS.

The flexibility of ExpressionEngine has allowed us to create some great projects over the past five years... hopefully with more to come over the next five years!

Filed Under: Expression Engine