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Responsive designs are the most in-demand thing these days for the web. There are various ways by which you can create a responsive design, which includes using a highly responsive framework like Bootstrap or some other framework. Another way around is to use your own design and write media queries into CSS to make your design fit to the device of your choice. I have already discussed these things in a few of my articles previously. You may have a look at those articles first and then proceed with these articles. ...

Earlier last week, I shared a tutorial with you on how to use custom fonts on your website to get the desired result on your webpages. Regarding that, one of the readers emailed me asking to share a tutorial on how to use Google fonts in your website design. I thought of sharing this tutorial with everyone, and hence this post. Before I get into the steps to follow, let me tell you what are Google fonts. ...

Creating an idea for a project is one of the most tough jobs. Deciding on what thing to do that would help people, or in turn just earn money for some people is very difficult. Despite these facts, there a few tips that you can keep in mind to create a top selling idea in your field of business. ...

Whenever anyone starts learning CSS, they come to a point when they get confused between the **CSS id **and the CSS Class. A lot of people, who build websites don’t even know the exact difference between the two. When I started learning CSS, I was taught about ids and Classes. I was told that the difference between a class and an id is that an element can have multiple classes, but only a single id. Well, I would not say that this is something false, but this is not the only reason. I was curious to know more about the difference between the two similar-sounding names and that’s when I started to search on the internet to find the actual difference. I went through a lot of websites and finally came up with a few differences that were actually good, and worth sharing. ...

Android application development is a field that most people are targeting these days. There are a lot of opportunities for Android developers in today’s world, and there is a lot of demand for them as well. Also, there are a lot of freelance or Indie Android application developers, and they generally don’t have any funding for their projects. This is the reason that they have to look for ways to monetize their application. There are a lot of monetization networks available today, which provide very good options for publishers, to earn from their applications. Though spamming your application with advertisements is not a good option, placing a single advertisement to show every now and then is a good idea. ...

A Contact Form is an essential requirement for any website these days. It allows the user to be able to send an email to the website owners regarding anything that they may want. The contact forms can be used for various purposes, and these purposes include a simple contact form, an order enquiry form, or even a registration form for an event sometimes. Today, I am going to help you create a contact form without using any programming language. This contact form will be created with the help of Google Drive, which enables you to get the responses either via email or to be displayed in a spreadsheet on your Google Drive account. ...

Brainstorming for your next application or project is a very good way to start your development process. Brainstorming (in simple words) is a way of writing down everything that comes to your mind, without thinking how to do that. It is basically what all ideas you have regarding the project or what is that you want implemented in your project. For instance, if I am creating a new android application that is a simple calculator, in the brainstorming session for that, I would list down all the functions that I want my application to provide. This would include the basic calculations or the high-level calculations like calculating the logarithm of any number and so on. ...

When I started coding websites for other people, I was really confused with the different positioning options that CSS provides. The options provided actually sound pretty similar and it is normal for anyone to get confused with all that. But then, with time and different experiments, I understood the various positioning options in CSS and here I am to explain them to you in brief. ...

In today’s world, most people want to browse the internet and do all the work from their handheld devices. These handheld devices include mobile phones, tablets or the recently crowned term, Phablets (the term phablets is used to describe a phone with a huge screen size, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note, which was one of the first phablet in the market). The challenge that web developers and designers face is that they have to make a website that can be scaled to any screen size, even for large desktop monitors. This challenge can be overcome by using a Responsive design. ...

Lately, I have been talking a lot about optimizing your website’s loading time. The main reason behind that is that Google and other search engines like websites that load fast, even the customer or the reader would like to visit a website that loads pretty quickly. Thus, it was essential to talk about optimizing your website loading time. After my last post on 5 tips to increase website loading time, one of the readers sent me an email asking me to describe a way to optimize images for his website without losing quality at all. ...