Websites of all kinds are targeted by malicious attackers on a daily basis. The potential damages caused by these activities can range from the mild annoyance of spam to total loss of data. Website owners are not defenseless against these things; there are simple and effective ways to better protect your site against spam, viruses and hacker intrusion attempts.
Two minutes. You probably wait longer for your coffee at your local shop. Two minutes can seem like a very short time, unless you're on in the hot seat, facing four investors and an entire audience, asking for funding. At that moment, time goes by like lightning. Last month at a local pitch contest, I saw two presenters lose precious time when they lost their train of thought in the middle of their two minute pitch.
There’s a lot of fun and exciting perks to starting your own business. Bookkeeping is not one of those. New business owners often underestimate the time and stress it takes to just get paid.
Here are some tips for how to make getting paid a little less painful...
Using Photoshop can sometimes seem like a necessary evil, especially when things seem to take much longer than they should. However, if something seems to take a long time, you can be pretty sure that someone has found a quick way of doing it! So we are bringing you 10 quick tips that will hopefully speed up some of those tedious Photoshop tasks. All of these tips are image-related, as working with images is not necessarily the favorite thing for designers to spend a lot of time doing. These tips should help to speed up work on images whilst retaining quality.
HTML5 now has been utilised by many websites, either whole part or a small portion. It has been taking us to the next level of world wide web. Lots and lots of fancy websites are solely developed using HTML5 and CSS3 instead of Flash, which not only replace the old and slow Flash, also increase the semantic SEO ability. There are many changes in HTML5, especially the video and canvas markup elements. To easily start with, some step-by-step HTML5 tutorials are must look. No matter you are a beginner or somewhere in the middle, those tutorials will get you through and make things more clear.
From the basic introduction, we would know the features, differences and some tips to start your HTML5 journey. Following with some web page development tutorials as an exercise. Then the good part comes: HTML5 video/canvas tutorials. The last one is something app-related (Instead of building a native app on iOS/Android, developers build an universal HTML5 website or web app which serves the same function to reduce costs). Let’s get started.
There was a time, not so long ago, when business was good for designers. Jobs were plentiful, and being a “good” designer was good enough. Then the economy tanked, and the world was thrown into a nasty recession. Many businesses stopped hiring, many designers were laid-off, and competition for all jobs became fierce. In short, being a “good” designer was no longer good enough.
If you want to compete in today’s recession-crippled job market, you can’t just be good… you have to be great. Otherwise move over, because a great designer will always be there to snag your dream job.
As people interested in photography or professionals trying to enhance our skills for business reasons, there are many ways that we can go about learning photography; this article looks at ten easy but sometimes overlooked ways to enhance our skills.
Photography is an art-form. It takes practice, skill, and an eye for the unexpected. Not all people will take the time to study a landscape, wildlife, building, or other subject to find the hidden depth within, but when they do often they will find great meaning in the photo they take. Photographers spend their lives looking for new and different ways to shoot a subject. Digital photography is just one new way of taking a picture. There are many advantages for working with digital photography.
It seems that almost everyone has a website. If you are in business, a website is vital, and for everyone else, a site can be a great way to make some extra money. Creating and designing a web site from scratch isn’t easy.
There are folks who spent a lot of time in school trying to master this skill, but still many average, untrained individuals want to design their own site. While some of these sites come out amateurish, others are successful doing their own web design in a polished, professional manner.
Have you ever been asked to give a speech somewhere on short notice? Sure, we’d all love to have months to prepare a well rounded and informative speech for an audience, but sometimes we aren’t given the time. You have two options: decline the opportunity or seize it.
As a lead frontend developer, it's my responsibility to make sure I'm keeping up-to-date with the web development industry trend. I reckon it's important and should be part of my job because my company will have to rely on my input regarding the best solution or possible technical difficulties during the development process. From HTML to HTML5, CSS to CSS3, Javascript to Javascript framework, it's a fast pace industry and if you leave behind, you're out of the market!
Just about every weekend someplace on the planet a peculiar series of meetups is happening called Startup Weekend. The idea is to bring together a group of people, many of whom have never set eyes on each other before, to form new ventures, many of which are tech-related. So far the model seems to be working: each weekend on average has produced two or three companies. According to the master website, more than 5,000 startups have been created since the process began, and some 2,000 just in the last year alone. We last wrote about the process last April and here is more information about the process and the role that the Kauffman Foundation has played.
