Why Wait Webs

Making video games is a lot of peoples’ dreams nowadays, and there is certainly something to be said for looking at an interactive, moving game and thinking, “I made that!” While I don’t enjoy the process of writing video games as much as I do website design and other graphic design, the final result is very rewarding. If you have ever thought about getting into video game creation, Flash is a great way to get started! The workflow is shorter than some other mediums, and you can post your work on the Internet for virtually anyone to see.

Practically everything I know about video game development, and many of my other skills, came from tutorials over at CartoonSmart. I can say from first-hand experience that these are absolutely fantastic tutorials that will have you cranking out great content in no time! So, if you want to get into video game creation, what better time than now? Click away to some of the best game-making tutorials out there.

If you have any comments about CartoonSmart, or want to share any other resources you have found to be helpful, feel free to post a comment!

Why Wait Webs indexed on first page of Google thanks to having search-engine friendly content.

We have all seen websites, books, and seminars dedicated to one of today’s hottest topics: search-engine optimization. There is a lot of information out there, a lot of it helpful, and a lot of it completely bogus or largely fluff. If you are new to the subject of SEO, the plethora of information available about writing content for search engines can be quite daunting.

Fortunately when it comes right down to it, one of the most consistent, tried and true methods of search engine optimization is simply writing search-engine friendly content, which is something anyone can do if they follow a couple very simple techniques. By the end of this short article, you should be able to write search-engine friendly content that will allow your website to get indexed by Google and the other search engines much more effectively.

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WebKit, the rendering engine that has brought CSS3's explicit animation to the web for the first time!

Today we as web designers and developers get a rare chance to look into the future. The latest nightly build of Webkit (the rendering engine for browsers Apple Safari and Google Chrome) includes some new support for CSS3. Specifically, explicit animations using CSS. Up until now, developers have either had to rely on Flash and all its drawbacks, or bite the bullet and write out a long piece of JavaScript just to get a box to slide in elegantly. JQuery alleviated the problem somewhat, but nothing compares to the visual approach of writing a CSS document.

CSS animation will enable developers to spend much less time on animation which, to the end user, may seem trivial. And it will do so with cleaner, simpler, more robust code that will load significantly faster and run smoother for the end user. Read on to see a preview of how it works, and when you can expect to be able to use this on an actual web page.

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I don’t like Internet Explorer. I don’t think I’ve made that any secret. One of the reasons for that is that there are many instances where fully valid code won’t render properly in IE6 — many more instances than is the case with other browsers.

IE6 Showing its True Malevolent Self

Today I found the strangest and most terrible bug I’ve ever encountered. In Internet Explorer 6, my main content was completely invisible. Images and text alike were simply gone! The container DIV was stretched out as it would be if the content were there, and the text was selectable! If I highlighted the text, in fact, I was able to see it, even after de-selecting it. On a page refresh however, my content would simply disappear again, only to reappear when highlighted.

I consider this the most terrible bug ever because in most cases, a bug will rearrange your website, or make it look ugly, but users will still be able to access the content. The content is the reason for the site’s existence, and with this disappearing content bug, users of Internet Explorer 6 will not see your content unless they think to highlight it (and in that particular demographic, I’m willing to bet the odds of that are pretty low). Thus your entire site is rendered unusable and pointless. So read on for the fix!

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WordPress 2.7 recently came out. For those of you who don’t know, WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world, and deservedly so. It is highly customizable and extremely themeable. It’s coded with standard, valid XHTML and CSS. My only real complaint with WordPress is that they, like much of the web, chose to use XHTML instead of HTML when there’s no real reason for it. But that’s a topic for another day. As it stands, WordPress is still the best CMS I’ve ever used by far, and that’s why I use it on my own site and recommend it to all of my clients.

I am going to be upgrading this blog and, if all goes well, my clients’ blogs shortly thereafter. Normally I wouldn’t go to the trouble of updating, but this is a big one. Instead of the usual one or two obscure bug fixes, the WP team has completely redesigned the back-end, and from what I’ve seen they’ve done a really good job of turning a great blogging platform into a truly rich CMS (content management system).

Continue reading to find out what some of these great new features are, and for a video showcasing them!

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