Responsive Web Design
What is responsive web design? The term Responsive Web Design was coined by web designer Ethan Marcotte (http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/) in an article on A list Apart (http://www.alistapart.com), and it basically amounts to a new way of designing and developing websites to ensure that the design is optimized for all possible types of browser window displays, resolutions, ...
The importance of Web Accessibility: how to build an accessible website
1. Introduction Definition Accessibility in its broadest sense is the ease with which one can access, read and understand the information on a web page. It is influenced by many factors including disability, the browser being used and the functionality supported by the user’s browser. In order to design an accessible site, the web developer ...
A history of HTML
HTML was invented by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee with a support team at CERN. He is currently the Director of the W3C, the group that sets technical standards for the Web and vets and approves changes to HTML versions. HTML or HyperText Markup Language is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) ...
A history of the Open Source movement
Wikipedia defines Open Source culture as “the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content…where participants in the culture can modify those products and redistribute them back into the community or other organizations.” The concept of Open Source had its roots in ‘hacker culture’ and the “Free Software Movement” which was ...
A history of the Internet
In 1957, the US Department of Defence established the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), later renamed the TheDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA) in 1972. In 1962 Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency) produced a report on the potential for establishing a network which would enable communications between decentralised locations in ...