Online education portals like Udacity and Coursera are really changing the world of remote learning in significant ways. By making free and high quality education accessible to a global audience, these platforms are opening up undreamt of possibilities for communities around the world to improve, grow, and prosper in the digital economy of the 21st century. Education at top tier colleges and universities has traditionally been a social and economic privilege, but now anyone can join in the learning revolution by sitting in virtual classrooms with the world’s best and brightest educators. Whether this involves learning how to code and build smart phone apps, or starting up a new business, or learning about public health literacy, the sky is the limit of what’s now possible.

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Does the new Facebook take a page out of Google Plus’ design book?

  Recently Facebook revealed their new look, a complete redesign of the Timeline and the Newsfeed.  The new layout incorporates the use of flat design principles, such as square shaped boxes with beautiful large typography. “The new Facebook is much cleaner, rich and simpler,” said Julio Zhuo (Design Director) in a statement.

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Introducing Blueprint CSS Framework (Part 1)

  Live Demo | Source Code   If you are a web designer or a front-end engineer looking to craft gorgeous designs for users, in the least amount of time, then you’re lucky – enter Blueprint CSS. Blueprint CSS is one of the world’s most admired frameworks for front end design, giving you a foundation… Read the full post

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Cross-Browser Compatibility Tips (part 2)

In Part 1 of the Coding for different browsers series, we looked at the various techniques you could incorporate in your workflow to make your site cross browser compatible. Today, we go a step further and discuss the latest technologies you can use to help you improve the user experience of your site. We are going to… Read the full post

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Cross-Browser Compatibility Tips (Part 1)

This is Part 1 of the Coding for different browsers series where we will discuss the different methodologies and tools to make the user experience for your customers as seamless as possible. In Part 1, we are going to discuss the various techniques used to render your site as you expect on multiple browsers. In Part 2,… Read the full post

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Essential Website Performance Metrics: Part 2

Last week, we talked about the power of GFI Software’s free website monitoring tool, Monitor.Us. Today, in part 2, we will continue, going a step further and highlighting the tool’s network, database and cloud monitoring features.

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What metrics does Monitor.Us monitor and why should you care?

If you are an IT administrator, then this article is for you. In this part 1 of the Monitor.Us Metrics series, we are going to look at what Monitor.Us is, and why you should care. Monitor.Us is a free web based IT monitoring tool, owned by GFI Software. They also have a paid version known as Paid Monitor. GFI’s… Read the full post

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How to use Typekit fonts on your website?

With the arrival of CSS3, HTML5 and legitimate web font standards, we are quite privileged to have the ability to use gorgeous fonts on our web sites. This means, we don’t have to rely on the boring old Georgia, Arial or others to decorate our typography. Today, we will see how we can use a… Read the full post

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Top 3 Cloud PaaS Providers for your next app

Unless you have been living under a rock for a while, you might already be aware of how cloud PaaS providers are changing the apps game. With the advent of cloud computing, the technology and processes for hosting, deploying, scaling and maintaining your app have become easy as a click.  Today, we look at the… Read the full post