Why should web designers start looking at HTML 5 and what are the advantages it can bring to our work? In this short blog post we run through a few of the many advantages we can gain from latest incarnation of HTML.
HTML 5 is a new version of HyperText Markup Language, the language or code us web designers use to create web pages. HTML 4 has been in existence for nearly a decade and given the pace at which things move in the web design world it’s long overdue an update.
You have no doubt heard of Twitter by now as it’s gained quite a lot of coverage in the press recently. Just to recap for those who are new to Twitter it’s a free service that enables its’ users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. The activity of posting short messages has been called “micro-blogging”. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, text message (SMS) or external applications.