Overview Although RAID is a function for Web professionals that manage the hardware and servers it’s important that you know about RAID. What is RAID? RAID (redundant array of independent disks, originally redundant array of inexpensive disks is a storage…
Google Chrome Beta: Google Showing their love for Video
Google announced today via their Chromium dev blog that they’ve released a new Chrome Beta today with some shiny new features! One of which being Track Support for HTML5 Based Video! What’s Track Support? Basically it’s a standardized HTML5 element for…
Understanding Mobile Application Development – A Teachers guide for Educators
Overview Since 1996 the membership supported WebProfessionals.org aka World Organization of Webmasters has worked tirelessly to support and advocate on behalf of Web professionals including those that teach Web centric topics. To that end, we met with hundreds of community…
Mobile Application Development Summer Series for Educators – Reflections
By Mark DuBois, Director of Education WebProfessionals.org This has been my “Summer of Mobile app development with HTML5 and CSS-3 and jQuery.” I am exceedingly honored to have been a part of the WebProfessionals.org Summer 2012 conference schedule in addition…
Book Report – Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter
By Kim Cohen Advocates of exemplary customer service will be happy to know there are those web designers/developers who feel the concepts of “surprise and delight” are not constrained to face-to-face interactions between a business and its customers but extend…
Introduction to File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Overview File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to…
Understanding Doctype Declarations
Overview Doctype Declarations are mandatory on all HTML websites. A doctype is a pre-defined string that is used to tell a client’s web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) what type of code will be contained in the file. By…
Introduction to Content Management Systems (CMS)
Overview A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer system that allows publishing, editing, and modifying content as well as site maintenance from a central page. It provides a collection of procedures used to manage workflow in a collaborative environment.…
Understanding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Overview Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML…
Introduction to Programming Languages
Overview A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely. The earliest…