What will the prize be?
We are going be giving away either an iPod Nano, an iPod Touch, a Mac Mini, a Macbook or an iMac.
How do you enter?
All you have to do is follow us on twitter – @webdesignerhelp.
How will the prize be chosen?
The prize will be chosen depending on how many followers we have at 12pm GMT 30th June.
If we have 100K in followers will be giving away an iMac
If we have 75K in followers will be giving away an Macbook
If we have 50K in followers will be giving away an Mac Mini
If we have 25K in followers will be giving away an iPod Touch
If we have 15K in followers will be giving away an iPod Nano
How will the winner be chosen?
One of our followers will be chosen randomly, and then we post your prize to you.
Why are we doing this?
We would like to thank our readers/followers on twitter, and thought what better way than to hopefully giveaway an iMac!
How well do you know CSS, take our Quiz and see how you do. If you do well why not have a boast in the comments if you don’t do so well then you should definitely subscribe to our RSS and keep up to date with any CSS tutorials we publish!
Even though HTML 5 is a few years away from being used widely, there is still many powerful tags which are supported in most browsers, and google showcased some of these at Google’s I/O 2009 Keynotes.
The 5 main elements they showcased where:
Canvas
The canvas element allows users to draw on a web page using Javascript, check out this demo from google. It also allows for simple games to be played, check this first person gifter demo from google. But the major power of canvas tool is revealed when you take a look at Mozilla’s BeSpin, which is a browser based code editor written in just HTML and JavaScript.
Video
The video element allows video to be embedded into webpage without the use of flash, just like the img tag is used now. Check this example of a video on youtube running through the video tag, you wont notice much different until you look in the source and see the video tag.
GEOLocation
The GEOLocation API allows web apps to pull the user location and use it in the application, an example of this is the Where Am I button on google maps.
Workers
Workers is a great mechanism which allows JavaScript to be processed without slowing down the browser, to test this first run this example and try changing tabs in your browser and then try running this example and changing tabs. You will see that the first slows your browser basically to a halt and the second doesn’t.
A more impressive example of this is the video motion tracker, which just uses JavaScript in the browser.
All of the example came from Google’s I/O 2009 Keynote, and are only tested in certain browser noted on this showcase page from Google.
All web designers should have at least 1 USB drive, so why not make it something cool instead of a boring standard USB drive? So we have compiled a list of of 15 cool USB drives.
Typography can be make or break a site, if your content is unreadable or unattractive people may not want to read it. So we have compiled a selection of 38 sites which use beautiful typography.
