Microsoft has ditched its Live Search in favour of a more cuddly approach named Bing, The old Live Search was loosing viewers so a drasting re-branding has seen Bings market share increase and is set to eclipse Yahoo, come on Yahoo “Bing it!”, this move shows the raw power of branding with simple design.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. There’s no noticeable changes or any added features, this is the bug patching release that usually follows large updates like the WordPress 2.8 Release. Go to the WordPress Development Blog for full release details.
Shopify has released Shopify Apps, along with an API for developers. This means shop owners will be able to easily add useful features to their shops and that Shopify developers will be able to create some outstanding apps and better still theres a billing system in place for receipt of payment for the developers.
The launch of the Google Chrome Web OS is great news across the the whole tech industry, for web designers the expansion of this web based OS should mean better support for CSS 3 and HTML 5 and all the goodness that brings. I’m already dreaming of border radius, multiple backgrounds, opacity and web fonts.
W3Schools’ Online Certification Program is a great way of getting some credibility without a lenthly college or uni course, and some practice of the finer points of web design or development. This great resource is offering an Online Certification Program. Certificates include PHP, ASP, XML, Javascript and HTML which costs 75usd.
As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.