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They are more or less the same thing really. I think people started using the term "keyword phrase" to be a little more specific, once the days of bidding on individual words became unfeasible and too expensive on their own. While we are on the subject, there is another piece of terminology to...

This is a neat demo of alpha transparency in video for Chrome. Traditionally this could have only been done via Flash, but we are now seeing other browsers beginning to support transparency in HTML5 video as well. As of right now, I can see it working properly in Chrome and Opera on my machines...

It looks like we are on the verge of getting full support of blend modes in all the major browsers. The one major holdout for now is, surprise surprise, Internet Explorer. https://medium.com/web-design-technique/6b51bf53743a Those of you who work in Photoshop extensively will immediately...

I would say HTML and CSS, and I am mentioning them together since they really compliment each other and it's not particularly useful to only learn one and not the other. HTML alone would have gotten you by in the 1990's, but CSS is necessary to style your pages these days. CSS is built around...

The MSN brand is going to eventually go away soon. They stopped generating new "content" for the MSN portal some time ago, it's all farmed from other sites and sources now. Microsoft is focusing on their Bing brand instead. They even renamed their ad platform from MSN AdCenter to Bing Ads. I...

For me I find the biggest challenge to be translating a design done into Photoshop into a fully functional Wordpress theme. I know, generally speaking, how to do it, but it is so time consuming to do over and over again from the ground up - plus there are so many details you need to take into...

It's hard to say without you providing some examples of what you are looking for. If you are looking for splashy animated videos with all sorts of 3D text and particle transformations and other sparkly flashy stuff - those types of things are generally created in Adobe After Effects (though...

There are a lot of different ways you can achieve "3D" effects in web design. You can use CSS3 and/or Javascript for example to rotate text or other page elements in a 3D fashion. Here are some interesting examples with CSS: 20 stunning examples of CSS 3D transforms | CSS3 | Creative Bloq...

This is a rather clever idea, though I don't think I would go through all the trouble for one of my sites personally: How To Use Google Drive as CDN For Your Website - Cube3x Also, I supposed you would have to keep a close eye on how much bandwidth you are using up each month. Even a small...

The short answer is yes, but there are a few things to keep in mind. The "3D" effect is not a true 3D, but rather a simulated one. Video is actually easier to pull this off with than still images. When you make a true 3D image, you need to shoot it with two lenses that are placed a reasonable...

One other tool I forgot to mention is Google AdWords. They have tools within the AdWords interface to help you create image ads (in Flash format last time I played with it, but they likely support HTML5 ads now too). They come with a bunch of pre-made templates, and you simply customize the ad...

What type of 3D are you looking to learn more about? Are you talking about full blown 3D applications such as Cinema 4D? Or do you just need to do some basic 3D effects, such as extruded text, for some of your web designs? Both Photoshop and Illustrator have the ability to render 3D objects...

You should also be aware that Google purposefully tries to make it's bots undetectable and/or blend in with regular user traffic. This is to thwart spammers who would try to serve different landing pages to Google's bot vs. a regular human. In the past they would attempt to serve hundreds of...

One of the easiest methods simply requires some research ahead of time. The idea is to target keyword phrases related to your niche that have a reasonably high search volume, but very few of the search results are using that actual phrase verbatim in their page titles and page content. Doing so...

If you don't mind hosting the videos yourself, especially if you created the videos, there are also many more off the shelf options to handle this for you. Even HTML5 has specs for playing video within a browser without the need for third party scripts or plugins. I would also suggest checking...

You can create web banners in Illustrator as well. In fact, down the road, it might be more practical to use Illustrator if you are getting into animated banners which benefit from using SVG vector shapes to keep the file sizes down and remain sharp on multiple resolution devices. It's just that...

It's relatively straightforward to create a web site that simply scrolls horizontally in your browser. The simplest method would be to just float some containers of content beside each other. Generally speaking you would likely need to wrap them in a fixed width container of some sort though...

This isn't an endorsement or affiliate link, so I will just get that out of the way first. I recently came across this program while searching for animation tools and wanted to share it here: VideoScribe - Sparkol VideoScribe It's a pretty unique product for what it does, if not a limited...

There are quite a few actually. In fact, when you say Flash banner, are you open to the banner being created with standard HTML5/Javascript and CSS as well? I'm only asking because that is where banners are basically headed since Flash isn't supported on all devices these days, and there are a...

I don't know. Perhaps. But I'm also a little paranoid of us all switching over to wireless signals. My cell phone gets incredibly hot whenever I am tethering it for internet access when my landline cable goes out. I know there are millions of people using cell phones everyday, but I wonder if...