Web Development

Google continues opening doors and inviting themselves in to new industries. What once was a simple search engine has turned into an Internet giant. Google has displayed their power and the desire for their services with the announcement of Google Fiber, their own internet service. Communities across America are competing to be the trial subjects of Google Fiber, which is said to be 100x faster than the typical internet connection. Add that to Google’s announcement of their own DNS and SPDY, an alternative to HTTP, you can’t help but wonder, What’s next for Google?

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There are a lot of decent websites on the Internet, but why are they just decent. Many times it is because of small design and development errors, which can add up quick. Take some time to evaluate your own website and see if your site suffers from any of these mistakes.

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While I was looking for a restaurant to have lunch at in Royal Oak, I checked my phone to see what was available and wasn’t able to access a couple sites because they were developed in Flash. Here, the advantages and disadvantages of having a flash website are discussed.

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Software is not born evil, it becomes that way. I will discuss how software that starts out on the right track can sometimes twist and turn so many times that it does not even represent any part of itself at the beginning, and now has become a nightmare for anybody to add to or change parts of it, constantly worrying what is going to happen to the rest of your software when you change this one piece. We’ll look at how this happens, why, and how it can be avoided.

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One of the common gripes that web designers have is the limited selection of typefaces they can use. Although there are many different font-replacement methods that exist, there is no perfect way. That is when a decision needs to be made. Do you focus on design or search engine/user-friendliness?

Read Typography & Web Design: Why Go Web-Safe