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Website Development Trends For 2022

As we all know, Google is constantly changing and tweaking its ranking algorithm to provide the best experience for searchers. As a website owner, there can be a lot to keep up with to make sure that your site is up to date and performing at its very best to provide a seamless experience for users. With that said, one thing Google continues to take into account and values is providing a good user experience. 

As we look further into 2022, a well-maintained site will continue to be a pressing factor on your site’s health and competitiveness. Without a solid and well-maintained foundation for your website, this will negatively affect your site in the search results. As a result, you will lose traffic, fall behind competitors and miss out on revenue. In the sections below, we will cover some of the most popular development trends that will help take your website to the next level in 2022. 

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Why Web Developers Should Blog

There are a ton of bloggers out there. Who wants to see any more? Well, there are actually a ton of reasons why more web developers should be on their own sites blogging about their experiences.

Make a Website Developer Portfolio

Show off your stuff! The work that you do should follow you wherever you go. Placing this on your blog is a great way to showcase what you did and how you did it. If you are a freelancer, this is a great place to put your money where your mouth is and display your finest work for all the world to see. Generally, portfolios can be pretty boring. Don’t just show your work. Talk about it. People like to know the back story about the different processes you took and decisions you made. Continue reading Why Web Developers Should Blog

Adobe Labs and New Betas

Adobe Labs

Adobe Labs provides you with the opportunity to experience and evaluate new and emerging innovations, technologies, and products from Adobe.

Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. This allows customers to become productive with new products and technologies faster and the Adobe development teams to respond and react to early feedback in order to shape the software in a way that meets the needs and expectations of the community.

At Adobe Labs, you’ll have access to resources such as:

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Adobe GoLive Replaced in 2008

Just incase you may have missed it…

Adobe has announced that it will discontinue its one-time flagship website creation tool, Adobe GoLive. The rumor mill has long held that Dreamweaver, a web development tool that came into the Adobe fold following the 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, would one day replace GoLive and now it seems that the day has finally arrived.

Although GoLive is still for sale on the Adobe site, Devin Fernandez, GoLive’s product manager, tells Macworld that the company believes Dreamweaver is a better fit for today’s web developer. Continue reading Adobe GoLive Replaced in 2008

Adobe’s Open Screen Project

The Adobe Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. Adobe’s Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

The Adobe Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. Adobe’s Open Screen Project will also address potential technology fragmentation by allowing the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment will provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers. Continue reading Adobe’s Open Screen Project

Flash Elements and Web Standards: UNITE.

Including a flash movie in a basic HTML page.  Sounds easy enough, right?  How about including a flash movie in HTML that is standards compliant AND works with the major browsers used on the web?  If you’re like a lot of designers this probably yields frustration, as the markup for doing such can be a bit of a challenge.

I came across an article a few months ago written by the author of Dreamweaver MX Web Development, as I struggled with creating my own website.  Drew McLellan provided much insight into the markup of Flash movies (or in my case, a navigation system I had developed) and led to what we’ll consider a coding theory: it works for me until I find a browser that disproves its functionality. Continue reading Flash Elements and Web Standards: UNITE.

Adobe Spry Tabbed Panels meets Sliding Door and CSS Sprites

So you like the functionality of the Adobe Spry Tabbed Panels, but their drab appearance doesn’t go well with the overall design of your Web site. Meanwhile, you have been hoping that Adobe would eventually give you the ability to change their appearance with little or no CSS experience. Perhaps I have the solution you have been hoping to find and use on your Web site using the Sliding Door and CSS Sprites technique.

I would recommend using Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 or Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (or better) with the Spry Framework widget already installed. If you don’t have Spry preinstalled in Dreamweaver, go to it’s homepage and download the extension…
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/home.html

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