Screen Recording
Creating screen recordings on macOS doesn’t have to be difficult, time consuming or expensive. You may be surprised to learn that pre-installed applications and tools in macOS can be used to quickly create high quality screen recordings and animated screenshots of your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Learn how to create animated screenshots on macOSFluid Media for Responsive Designs
Responsive images and other fluid media (like videos) are fundamental elements of modern web development. Despite the fact that responsive design has become ubiquitous in the web industry, a solution for high quality media that loads quickly and looks great on all viewports remains elusive.
Learn how create and use fluid media elementsResponsive Aspect Ratio & Fluid Text
When designing, developing and optimizing a responsive website, you will often encounter elements which maintain their aspect ratio while scaling. Images do by default in HTML, but videos, background images, calls to action, ads, and other graphical elements do not.
A developer’s first inclination may be to set the width
and height
of an element to a percentage value. However, because percentages in CSS are calculated based on the dimensions of the equivalent property of the elements parent container (i.e. a percentage based height
will be based on the parent’s height
, width
will be based on width
), decreasing an element’s width will not directly affect its height.
Attributes vs Categories
Information architecture is one of the most important user experience elements of a website because it directly affects navigation, often affects URL structure, and it is important to both SEO and conversion optimization. On ecommerce websites, product “merchandising” may impact aspects of information architecture. To ensure that users can find the information they are looking for as quickly and as easily as possible, it is important to understand the technical differences between categories and attributes.
Learn the technical differences between categories and attributesFlat vs Hierarchical URL Structure
Some SEO consultants recommend “flat” URL structures. However, there is no evidence that a flat URL structure is better than a clearly hierarchical URL structure. While there is some debate in the SEO community, most reputable sources agree that there is no SEO/SERP benefit to flattening URL structure, and that hierarchical URLs are better for UX, crawling, and data analysis.
Learn how to best structure URLs for SEO and UX