A customer recently brought to me a unique challenge. My customer wants information request form data to be collected in a database. Nothing new, right? Well, there’s a hurdle — the information isn’t going to be saved on the localhost database — it needs to be stored in a remote database that I cannot connect directly to.
Fluid Width Video 100%
IN A WORLD of responsive and fluid layouts on the web ONE MEDIA TYPE stands in the way of perfect harmony: video. There are lots of ways in which video can be displayed on your site. You might be self hosting the video and presenting it via the HTML5 <video> tag. You might be using YouTube or Vimeo which provides <iframe> code to display videos. You might be using Viddler or Blip.tv which provide nested object/embed tags to display a Flash player. In each of these scenarios, it is very common for a static width and height to be declared.
FITVIDS
A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
HTML5 section/header/aside/article tags
Actually, you are quite right when it comes to header/footer. Here is some basic information on how each of the major HTML5 tags can/should be used (I suggest reading the full source linked at the bottom):
productorbit
360° product views made easy
ProductOrbit is the most innovative automated 360° view capture technology on the market
Mac OS X – Clearing DNS Cache
Once you go to a Web site, or do any DNS lookup, the IP gets cached for quite a while. This becomes a royal pain if you’re a systems administrator who is in the middle of migrating domains from one server to another. Executing sudo killall lookupd lookupd -flushcache