We just experienced a major marketing event in the U.S. Some call it the Super Bowl. We all have favorite commercials; these days, there were a number of ads with an associated web link or a social media hashtag. This…
Web Professionals trends – 2016 – eCommerce
Opportunities abound for the Web professionals for 2016. The percentage of online sales and eCommerce continues to grow (at the expense of brick and mortar). This trend is expected to increase in 2016. The increased growth comes from use of…
Web Professional trends – 2016 – web development
In many ways, 2016 is shaping up to be an incredible year for changes in web development. Of course, that statement also applied to 2015, 2014; the more things change, the more they remain the same. That being said, here…
Web Professional Trends 2016 – Employment
A recent Computerworld forecast reminded us that web development continues to crack the list of the top 10 most in-demand IT skills. Organizations have come to rely on the Web as a key channel for connecting with customers, clients, partners…
Web Professionals Trends 2016
There are many commentaries covering Web Professional trends for 2016, I chose these to discuss the most common Web design items for you today. Future posts will cover Web development, Web business trends and Web security, to name a few.…
Happy New Year from WebProfessionals.org
From all of us at WebProfessionals.org, we hope that you had a wonderful holiday season. We are gearing up a busy and productive year, and want to take a moment to thank you for your ongoing support and commitment to…
Web Design Contest Reflections
Mark DuBois Director of Education I recently returned from the WorldSkills Web Design competition in São Paulo, Brazil and started thinking about web design contests in general. WebProfessionals.org has been involved with these events for the past 15+ years. I…
Thoughts on CSS
Thoughts on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Mark DuBois Director of Education, WebProfessionals.org As a professor teaching web technologies, I am often presented with clear examples demonstrating that someone does not fully grasp a concept. In this case, the number…
Web Accessibility 101
By Mark DuBois Director of Education, WebProfessionals.org One, often overlooked, aspect of web design is to make your pages accessible. Besides being the right thing to do, this helps with page rank in search engines (since bots are blind). However,…
HTML 5 Forms
By Mark DuBois Director of Education Details, details, details It is April, 2015 as I write this post. HTML5 is supported by the majority of modern browsers. HTML5 contains a lot of semantic markup. For those who don’t know…