Design & Development Digest : wm-designdev

Game Programming Language Lobster Emerges

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:30:00 GMT

News broke this week that the makers of Candy Crush Saga, a mobile game developed by Midasplayer International Holding Co. (also known as "King") has hired banks to pursue a U.S. initial public offering. I won't go into the details of why...(read more)

Adobe Creative Cloud Gets More Awesome (and More Essential)

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:25:00 GMT

Adobe has released a significant update to its subscription-based Creative Cloud offering, making available hundreds of new features to its “CC” desktop applications such as cross-device collaboration and some exciting new publishing capabilities...(read more)

Hadoop Growth Stats to Know (and Share)

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:35:00 GMT

The global market for Hadoop, the now immensely popular parallel distributed processing middleware technology, is booming and all signs point to exceptionally high growth in the future. A new report (from Markets and Markets) indicates that revenue from...(read more)

E-Commerce Web Forms: 3 Steps to Fill in the Blanks

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:50:00 GMT

:: By Skylar Barret, PLAVEB :: Human beings are inherently averse to filling forms. Even if you are filling a form that is going to get you an admission in the best college or get you a job in a company of your dreams, you still won't love the process...(read more)

Cost of Cybercrime and Attack Prevention? $1 Trillion

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:50:00 GMT

New account registrations represent the highest rate of online attacks according to new data just by ThreatMetrix, a provider of cybercrime prevention solutions. Attacks on new account registrations, using both spoofed and synthetic identities, saw the...(read more)

9 Rules of Portfolio Site Creation

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:45:00 GMT

Designers don’t just create résumés, they create portfolios that showcase their best works of art. More often than not, those portfolios are featured on the Web so that they can be easily accessed and shared at any time and from everywhere...(read more)

UserTesting.com Unveils Enterprise Testing Platform

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Popular online testing service, UserTesting.com, has extended its services to include a full-service Enterprise testing platform. The platform provides enterprises with a usability testing solution that helps clients keep up with the demands of Web and...(read more)

404 Pages Get Worthy Makeover

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:15:00 GMT

If you’re looking to make better use of your 404 pages, you may want to consider using them to help the NotFound project locate the thousands of children who go missing every year across Europe alone. By installing the Notfound application, a picture...(read more)

3 Must-See Menu Design Styles

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:00:00 GMT

Ever walk in a mall and not know whether to look - left, right, up or down - for the store, theater or restaurant you want? There’s a certain amount of anxiety in that experience and trying to locate a directory can add to the frustration. This...(read more)

Use Pure CSS for a Quickstart on Your Next Web Project

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:12:00 GMT

CSS is one of the core/key “languages” for the modern digital designer. Writing CSS however can be exceedingly time consuming which is why here at Website Magazine we like to ease the virtual burden from time to time and showcase interesting...(read more)

Create Modal Windows with PopEasy

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:23:00 GMT

A popular trend right now in digital design is the use of modal windows. In user interface design, modal windows are essentially popup windows that appear to users upon some predefined interaction, or “trigger” (e.g. a click), and require...(read more)

Tom Cruise Goes Global – And Why You Should Too

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:30:00 GMT

:: By Keith Laska, CEO of SDL Language Technologies Division :: Tom Cruise recently made history by becoming the first Hollywood celebrity to join the Russian social network Vkontakte. By creating a page on the site promoting his new film, “Oblivion...(read more)

Optimize What's Behind the UI

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:04:00 GMT

There are many types of optimization software on the market. While most focus on what's happening on the UI layer, there are several which dig a little deeper, exposing opportunities to optimize what's underneath - the software features and functionality...(read more)

Nothing Cooler than Kuler for iPhone

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:30:00 GMT

Adobe's popular color palette generator Kuler demoed at Max 2013 with some interesting enhancements including a new mobile application for iOS . Adobe finally released the app to the public and the features are, by any measure, really amazing. The...(read more)

Agency Gives Disparate Web Presence An Early Checkout

'Net Features : wm-designdev — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:15:00 GMT

When Jay Schwartz, founder and Creative Director of IdeaWork , was tasked with creating a new Gansevoort Hotel Group website, he drew upon his own experience with the brand. The hotel group had disparate Web presences, making searching for availability...(read more)