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Question about Design view vs Code editor
It is perfectly fine to use Dreamweaver. I personally tried many editors and IDEs and I didn't find a perfect one. I always wish I could be able to combine features from different editors/IDEs to make what would be perfect for me, albeit this …
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Help me convert these CSS3 transitions to LESS?
You should probably use a mixin to do this. Also you should probably apply the transition on the a, li etc, and not on the :hover, so the transition will be smooth when you hover over and out of the element. Example: http://codepen.io/TheoL/pen/AeKh…
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Is -prefix-free faster than pure CSS ?
Scripts like prefix-free can make coding faster since you don't have to add all those prefixes manually. Even if you are using a CSS pre-processor or using something like prefixr to add the prefixes later, prefix-free is probably still faster s…
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VPS recommendations
I prefer that the VPS is managed as I'm not familiar with running my own server. For $3000 you can easily get a managed dedicated server. I have a managed dedicated server with Liquid Web and I pay about $2000 per year. For anything hosti…
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Best web resource to learn js/Jquery
There is also a free JQuery course here: https://tutsplus.com/course/30-days-to-learn-jquery/
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IE8 and responsive web design.
Mobile devices do not use IE8 so IE8 is most likely to be used with large enough screens which will use the default css. But if you care to make IE8 work with media queries you can try this: https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond If you care about th…
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Do we really need .ttf & .svg in @font-face now?
I guess it would be OK if you don't care about Android. Otherwise you need .ttf/.otf
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
Google Web Fonts are downloadable, so you can have them on your own server without relying on any 3rd parties. I am not sure what are the "industry standard design faces" that you talk about. Can you clarify, and let me know how much exac…
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Should I name my website pages with the .php extension, even if there is no PHP in the code?
You could also configure your server to parse html files as php. For most hosts this can be done easily by adding 1 line in the .htaccess file.
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
You still think they should be free? I just don't understand that way of thinking... I didn't say they should be free. I am just pointing out the fact that some fonts are free. (and I am using the term "free" loosely here. G…
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
Only to those who don't value someone else's work. Quality is more important to me than price. That's like advocating for developers to work for free. I don't expect those who don't know what it takes to design typefaces …
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
Why? Why wouldn't you want to support someone who worked very hard designing a typeface for you to use? So the reason that you don't use GWF is because is free? The higher quality of fonts is an advantage for typekit, but the freeness…
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
Typekit is faster insofar as you can use async, so it loads alongside your content and doesn't get in the way. Is that faster than having the fonts on your server and using @font-face? And wouldn't the async method of loading cause &q…
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
The quality of google web fonts is pretty poor. What is the best place for good free fonts? Plus I loathe @importing from a public source. Why? Is it slower? You can also use link or javascript and I believe you can download them and keep…
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webfonts vs websafe fonts and alternatives
And no, I wouldn't use Google's web fonts. Why?
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Tuts+ Premium or Team Treehouse?
Is there a certain reason why Chris promotes Treehouse Yes: They are the main sponsors of CSS-Tricks.
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Online Training: Which Sites Offer the Most
For video training courses I prefer Lynda.com. But you don't need to stick to just one. Get Lynda for a couple of months, which should be enough time to do several of their courses. Then cancel your account there and take a month at Treehouse, …
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Do you think it is possible to get good front end developer job being very young?
As an employer your age would not concern me. What would concern me is the fact that you are a student and you are not even about to graduate. Maybe an internship would be better for you at this point.
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Best Free CSS Editor
I tried several editors / IDEs recently and the best free one I found is Netbeans. FTP is integrated since it is an IDE. It has a lot more features which you might not need initially but which might turn out to be useful once you try them. Sublime…
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Selecting a substring
and that somebody doesn't explain their case very well. In fact, when pressed, he admits: Yes, I know. But he is number #7 contributor in stackexchange and he claims that he noticed that from personal experience. He is probably wrong, but …
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Selecting a substring
I haven't look but isn't there something coming in future spec that you could target any word within paragraph or heading like p::first-word {} etc.? I don't know if it is in a future spec, but searching for "first-word"…
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Selecting a substring
According to somebody: "Google tends to add a space character before and after span contents" http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/31066/flipping-text-is-good-for-seo Most people disagree with that. But as I said I prefer to stay…
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Selecting a substring
Span tag got absolutely no influence on SEO if used with proper word spacing. It is a domain so there shouldn't be any word spacing. I don't think it will actually affect SEO, but I prefer to be on the safe side when possible since I …
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Selecting a substring
Yes, I currently have it working with a span, I just don't like it very much that way due to semantic and SEO reasons. This is why I am considering using javascript if nothing better comes up.
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Compass & Codekit - either or, or both?
There is also compass.app which is a compiler like Codekit, but it is limited to Sass (while Codekit can do LESS and several other things). So if you do a compass vs codekit search most likely you will get comparisons between compass.app and codeki…
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do i need to install php
No, if you installed a web server (e.g. Apache) on your computer it will not include PHP. You need to install it if you need it. There are apps such as WAMP and XAMPP that will install Apache, MySQL and PHP on your computer without any hassle. If …
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How to - Custom Google Links [SEO]
I have a couple of websites that receive those links. I didn't do anything to get them, it is done automatically by Google. Last time I checked (not recently) the only thing I could change in webmaster tools was to tell Goolge NOT to display th…
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Web design career online?
I don't know about Chile, but in my country most certificates that you can get online are not really valued. Take a degree in a related field (Graphic Design if you are more of a "Web Designer" or computer science if you are more of …
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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
But Jush, it was you and some others who insisted that Macs are better, not just better for you, but better in general. Some of you went as far as saying that even the hardware of Macs are better, when in fact most parts, like CPU, graphic cards etc…
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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
Why would OSX put IT people out of a job?