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Saturday, July 2, 2016
7 Instagram Best Practices to Build Your Audience [INFOGRAPHIC]
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As you build your brand, knowing the ins and outs of a platform like Instagram will truly decide whether or not your social media marketing strategy succeeds. By following these Instagram best practices, you're able to use the platform as a marketing tool and not just a social network.
by Irfan Ahmad via Digital Information World
Friday, July 1, 2016
Install Google Fonts
A quick introduction into using any Google font within your website.
The screencast looks at how you go about selecting fonts on font.google.com. Adding them to your website and then using them inside your stylesheet.
Running time: 1:36
The post Install Google Fonts appeared first on Web Design Weekly.
by Jake Bresnehan via Web Design Weekly
Browser Trends July 2016: Is a Chrome Monoculture Harmless?
May's Microsoft Misfortune saw IE and Edge plunge further behind the competition. Does June provide a more optimistic outlook in the latest StatCounter browser statistics? Er, no…
Worldwide Desktop & Tablet Browser Statistics, May to June 2016
The following table shows browser usage movements during the past month.
| Browser | May | June | change | relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | 57.07% | 57.99% | +0.92% | +1.60% |
| Firefox | 14.50% | 14.14% | -0.36% | -2.50% |
| IE11 | 8.65% | 8.18% | -0.47% | -5.40% |
| oldIE | 2.73% | 2.59% | -0.14% | -5.10% |
| Edge | 2.29% | 2.55% | +0.26% | +11.40% |
| Safari | 4.32% | 4.28% | -0.04% | -0.90% |
| iPad Safari | 5.35% | 5.33% | -0.02% | -0.40% |
| Opera | 1.80% | 1.68% | -0.12% | -6.70% |
| Others | 3.29% | 3.26% | -0.03% | -0.90% |
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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint
Horizon: A Scalable Backend Perfect for JavaScript Mobile Apps
Horizon is a scalable backend for cross-platform, JavaScript based mobile apps, especially those needing realtime functionality. It was built by the awesome people at RethinkDB and so uses RethinkDB as the default database. If you're not familiar with RethinkDB, it's an open-source database with realtime capabilities.
Horizon exposes a client-side API that allows you to interact with the underlying database. This means you don't have to write any backend code. All you have to do is spin up a new server, run it and Horizon will take care of the rest. Data is synced between the server and the connected clients in realtime.
In this tutorial you're going to build a Tic-Tac-Toe app with Ionic and Horizon. I'll assume that you're not new to Ionic and Cordova so I'm not going to explain Ionic-specific code in depth. I recommend you go check out the Getting Started Guide on the Ionic Website if you want a bit of background. If you want to follow along, you can clone the app repo on Github. Here's how the final app will look:
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by Wern Ancheta via SitePoint
jQuery Lined TextArea plugin
One of the most used, but under featured HTML controls, is the humble TEXTAREA control. This control is designed to accept large blocks of text from the user. A wide variety of plugins exist for the TEXTAREA that layer it with toolbars, auto-resizing, rich-text editing and the works.
The post jQuery Lined TextArea plugin appeared first on jQuery Rain.
by Admin via jQuery Rain
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