Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to other services, including Six Apart’s TypePad blogging service. After that, Vox will be gone. If you’ve got a Vox blog, there are several export options — Six Apart has instructions for moving to TypePad, Posterous and WordPress. [...]
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Google is celebrating the second birthday of its Chrome web browser with the release of a new, improved version. Chrome 6 arrives with an updated user interface, better syncing tools that include support for web form data and extensions, and — as should be expected with every new browser release these days — increased speed and [...]
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With all the attention being paid to HTML5’s <video> tag, few have clued in to what is perhaps the most useful magical pixie dust hidden inside the web’s next markup language: the new semantic tags. Rather than using <div> tags to wrap your page sections, HTML5 offers much more sensible elements like <header>, <nav>, <section>, <article>, [...]
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We all want our websites to load faster, but speeding things up can be tricky. There are numerous tried and true tricks we all use to keep page load times down, but once you’ve done a few rounds of optimization, you tend to hit a plateau where it’s tough to squeeze any more speed out [...]
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Word is out that Firefox 4, when it ships at the end of October or thereabouts, will probably not include support for older, non-Intel Macs. Mozilla’s director of Firefox Mike Beltzner hinted at the change on a Mozilla developer mailing list last week: “I am gathering data on the number of PPC users we have, but [...]
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Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning, the company says. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication. This is a planned move Twitter first announced in December, and the company has posted a help page on its developer site with some [...]
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The good folks at Google have published a very cool multimedia showcase for what’s possible in HTML5. Using music by Arcade Fire (the 21st century hipster equivalent of ELO), filmmaker Chris Milk has made an interactive video of sorts that spans multiple browser windows. Eliot Van Buskirk has a full write-up, including an interview with Milk, [...]
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It’s been two years in the making, but Ruby on Rails 3.0 is finally here. You can grab the third generation of the popular web framework from the official website, or update via the command line with: gem install rails --version 3.0.0 Rails 3 is a major overhaul for the framework and merges the Rails and [...]
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Google’s Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics — the latest trend for web browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. Hardware acceleration allows the browser to offload intensive tasks like image scaling, rendering complex text or displaying scripted animations to your PC’s graphics card. [...]
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The first official pre-release version of Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser for Android devices has arrived, the company announced Friday. Curious users with phones running Android 2.0 and above, or with Nokia N900 devices, can download and install it right now. Codenamed Fennec, Firefox mobile is based on the same code as the big daddy desktop version of [...]
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This tutorial is based on a simple animated experiment that showcases just one of the amazing things you can create using CSS. I’ve used no images and no scripting; everything’s done using HTML and CSS. It goes without saying that since CSS3 is still not supported by all browsers, it might not work as intended; [...]
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Sensational Jobs, a slick job board for web professionals that’s taking the industry by storm, teamed up with Six Revisions last week to give Apple Trackpads to 3 winners. In this post, we’re announcing the 3 lucky Six Revisions readers who’ve won. The Winners of Apple Trackpads from Sensational Jobs The 3 winners are: James Rasmussen Jonelle Drew Watkins Congratulations! The [...]
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Personal outsourcing isn’t quite the hot topic that it was two years ago. With virtual assistant firms available left and right, could-be assistants have become less of a unique work accessory and much more of a sustainable, ubiquitous business addition. What was once a quirky but useful tool for the digital age has become standard — [...]
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Want to increase your website's conversion rate? How about doing less work while you're at it? Focus on the 20% that will bring you 80% of the results.
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There are a lot of free icon sets out there for you to use. In this collection, we rounded up a few icon sets from all over the web that you can use in your design projects. The hundreds of featured icons here are diverse in their styles: glossy, hand-drawn, realistic, textured are [...]
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It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from. Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that [...]
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Judging what’s best for an audience is never far from the web designer’s mind. The ability to predict whether a web design will soar like an eagle or sink like the Titanic is among the most subjective and complex measurements you will encounter. While resources that explain best practices exist, and your visitors contacting you about [...]
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With high pressure from clients and crazy development schedules for web designers, it is easy to forget to spend the proper amount of time crafting a design. In the interest of speeding things up, it’s tempting to skip over small details. This is an easy pitfall to which to succumb, but in the end, it can [...]
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This is Part 2 of tutorial series. The first part dealt with creating a web design mockup of an elegant and simple blog web design. You should do Part 1 before attempting this tutorial so that you to gain the most benefit. Elegant and Simple Blog Web Layout Tutorial Series This tutorial is the second part of [...]
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Inkd, the world’s first online marketplace for creative businesses, hosted a giveaway on Six Revisions recently. This post announces the winner of the custom logo design by Inkd. The Winner of an Inkd Custom Logo Design The winner of the giveaway is AndyW. Congratulations! You should have already received information regarding how to claim your awesome prize [...]
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