Yambo's Blog
Typography on the Web
Typography on the web has gone through a massive change over the last year and half, no one could have predicted quite how radical the web font movement would be.
Fight For The Future - Protect IP
Large companies such as Wikipedia and Google are protesting against a new and damaging censor in America. A censor which will stiffle free speech on the internet, and one in which will lessen innovation and give power to larger companies.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Yambo would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Here's to a happy & prosperous 2012.
The future's bright, the future's HTML5 & CSS3
As mentioned in our previous post, HTML4 is the current web standard for designers and developers. HTML5 is supported in some modern browsers and, with this in mind, we have decided to explain some of the many new syntactical features available.
HTML Compliant Google+ Code
As you can see we have just added our Google+ code to Yambo and have found that the default coding for Google+ invalidates our W3C compliant HTML website.
Google+ is here
Google+ is the new attempt from Google to build a social networking platform to rival others such as Facebook, Myspace, etc. What makes Google+ different?
What is jQuery?
jQuery is a free and open source library of popular JavaScript functions. These can be used to add navigation, handle events, perform animations and add Ajax interactions to webpages. It is licensed under the MIT License and the GNU - General Public License.
So what is alpha channel transparency?
Using the PNG file format makes building beautiful websites so much easier! Cast your minds back to the days where the only way to use image transparency was by using the GIF file format.
Internet Explorer 6 issues
Browser inconsistencies make up a lot of our work as web designers, in particular Internet Explorer. The average web user will most likely be using Internet Explorer as their main browser.
YAMBO - Northampton Web Designers
Welcome to Yambo Web Design's new Blog! It's been a while coming but we finally now have the time and commitment to keep you up-to-date with all things web related.