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How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations
In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.
However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.
Google Stealing Content and Hijacking Traffic? A deeper look.
Recently, a blog post by Michael Gray called “Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic” caught my attention. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s the low down: The blog suggests that Google is “stealing” traffic (and thus revenue) from other companies by providing more information to its searchers upfront, instead of requiring searchers to click through and see the content themselves, among other claims.
I understand where Michael Gray is coming from, but to say that what we see from Google is unique or condemnable compared to traditional practice, common practice, or web 2.0 ethics is far from reality. Here I will challenge that frame of thought then cover a few very common examples of widely accepted and lauded businesses who practice similar techniques.
Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog
The idea of starting a new blog can seem so easy if you don’t completely think things through. I mean all you have to do is setup a blog, write a few tutorials, and start making a good sum of money from it, right? How hard can it be? In reality, that’s just an outline of everything. In this article I will give you “Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog” along with some helpful tips that will save you time when starting a new blog or website. Continue Reading
20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business
If I told you that there are twenty different ways you can streamline your web design business, make more money and work less, would you believe me? What if I showed you – would you believe me then? In this article, you will find twenty different ways you can streamline your web business. Some of which will cover work aspects while others will cover administrative tasks, but all in all, the end goal is the same: making more money and working less.
We’re Now a Design Magazine! (And another big announcement…)
Almost a half of year from the day I started blogging and AEXT is taking a huge leap!
It started out as a small personal blog hosted on Blogger, moved to WordPress as LamNguyenBlog.com, and after few months, I decided to make the switch to the current domain AEXT.net. Since then, AEXT has become a pretty solid personal blog. And judging by our subscriber counts and the amount of interaction goin’ on here, people love it!
Today, I’m very glad to announce that AEXT.net is no longer just a personal blog, we are stepping it up as a web design magazine. And what better way to celebrate this announcement than to have a fresh new web design!
But that’s not all! We have one more major announcement…
Facts About Dedicated Hosting and Shared Hosting
When setting up a website it is extremely important that you also get the necessary hosting. Some sites will need more powerful solutions than others, which hence make it important that you know the difference between the various forms of hosting. If you don’t, you might end up with a very unstable website, or paying for hosting that you don’t need. In this article we will take a look at the issue of dedicated hosting vs. shared hosting.
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Service Review: PixelCrayons – PSD To HTML/XHTML/CSS
Writing about your sponsor always gives a feeling of excitement and happiness. It could be seen as a unique way of thanksgiving to those who trust on you and your website or blog, and attach their brand name with yours. And of course put in their money for a particular period of time.
Community Blog: Should Or Should not I Run This Way?
Hello my subscribers and who are reading this entry. I have run this blog for more than 3 months and I posted number of entries about programming, design and blogging. Today, I would like to introduce something that you would be interesting at AEXT.NET. From now on, I should chose the way to blog: community or not to be community.
Dropbox – New Data Synchronous Service – AWESOME
Today, I got the link from Twitter friend (I’m sorry that I cannot remember who that guy 
) about Dropbox service. I was really surprised about what Dropbox can do. Actually, I don’t usually published any entries like that, but I should forward you guys to a service that you have never used before. I recommend this service from Dropbox to all web designers. This is an awesome Data Synchronous Service that can syncs across your computers, even when go online.
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Improve your css skill, right now!
Styling css is just follow the rules, if you run with rules, you can get a good working, but sometime, you forgot that in these rules, you missed something that can make you better in styling css. This entry is just a bit experiences i got and i wanna share with you. It’ll help you not much but without that, your design can not be better.
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