Security for WordPress sites has become more and more crucial since the rise of WordPress as a CMS platform over the last few years. WordPress powers nearly 25% of all websites on the internet and a whopping 58% of all CMS websites on the internet. This increases the likelihood...

What are Web applications?

They are accessed using a web browsers and Usually interactive. Applications usually give the user info or a result and are made with mixtures of web languages e.g Javascript, HTML, CSS, (Server side PHP). They can have static or dynamic content and are client server...

The Ubiquitous web makes responsive and adaptive design a must for future-friendly sites. Adaptive web design will consist of fluid grids, flexible media and media queries.

We need to work with these things both in current device context and future device context. I know that we don’t know what new...

Firefox OS is the first mobile OS that has been built using HTML5 and open web standards and is therefore not restricted or proprietary. The entire user interface is basically a web app that is capable of displaying and launching other web apps using HTML5,...

In an excellent, updated talk from the Smashing Conference 2014, Tim Brown brought us good practices in making typography universal. We as web developers need to understand the role of typesetting in responsive design. As Tim Brown states ‘the web is the best place for text’ as it can...

Having a good idea of what is important when you start a web project is crucial. You could use a list like Jeffrey Zeldman’s Ten Commandments of Web Design or just have a process you always follow. Either way there are key things which need to be addressed in...

Accessing the web from 3rd world countries is certainly something I have experienced in my life, since I was born and grew up in Zimbabwe. It has got better, but it is still slow, expensive and frustrating. So designing sites and code in these 3rd world countries has to...

I like the idea of atomic design that Brad Frost speaks about in the podcast Creating Responsive Interfaces. We start by stitching the interface together from the atomic level and then build it up to the final design. Atoms are the separate tags that are floating around on their own...

An excellent example of fluid design is shown at Chris Coyier own site http://chriscoyier.net. I can see that he has embraced the concept of content first. His site is simple and un-cluttered with excellent typography.

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Using multiple devices to access the internet is becoming the norm. Almost every teenager in the first world has a mobile phone or tablet. The interesting thing is mobile access is also becoming popular in the third world too, as cheap smartphones and tablets enable people to access the...