Everything is one place! Google feels what users want! There was a rumor that the new Google Drive will be coming shortly but nothing happened. And all of the sudden, what do I see? I jumped at it right away and tested it quickly and I can state that it's much better than DropBox. What's more, I have instantly deleted my DropBox account from my computer. Why? The reasons are easy to understand.

Google Drive is much cleaner, easier and nicer than Dropbox. Everything is in one place, especially my Google items, documents and all is synchronized to my Google Account. Basicly Google Drive gives you 5 gigabyte size storage and a small software that you can easily install to your mac. With it, you can easily manage your storage from your computer's desktop. Awesome!

If you are working in the web design industry I think you need to improve your responsive web design skills more intensively! Why? Because Intel is envisions the high-resolution Apple and PC Retina displays by 2013.

If these rummors are true the future will be very interesting because the widespread width of nowadays websites is 960px and the responsive webdesign will more significant than we think today.

Let's see those envisions:

These days websites have fixed sizes that are optimized for monitor displays. Naturally the size has risen in the past few years as the resolution of the displays has also increased, together with other technological advances.

There is a problem, though! In the meantime, new players have appeared on the horizon: smartphones (iPhone, Android based phones), tablets (iPad, etc) and other gadgets (MP3 players with screens, Internet TV's). Obviously the display resolutions of these gadgets are different.

What can we do with our nice website, if we want it to look nice on mobile too? We need to pay extra cash for developing a mobile version. If we have lots of money we can pay more for the tablet version, too. It is easy to calculate, that these methods are not money savers.

So here is this new solution, called Responsive web design. Websites made with this method are fully compatible with nearly all multimedia devices. Practically, the webdesigner using this method can create three or more visual views of the website by increasing or decreasing the sizes of the site's elements.

Technically the Reponsive web design is based on 4 key points:

That's all folks, in a few sentences! I have now started to learn this new method and here is the book which already helped me a lot. It's title is Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte. If you are interested in this method, order this book or click on my second link and study the websites which are made using the Responsive Webdesign method.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Webdesign has become a serious profession. The quality of websites has been gradually improving and by now there are real experts behind the more sophisticated ones. If someone is good at photoshop that does not necessarily mean he is a good web designer, even if he thinks so.

Pros ask the price of their work while amateurs try to operate with lower prices. I keep getting loads of emails in which people would like to have a website for rock bottom prices. This is of course out of the question.

Many of them may wonder why on earth I charge more than the average price? I could shoot them the usual bullshit bla-bla about professionalism and quality but no! In my case it’s the talent and 15 years of experience that has to be paid…

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The dry facts: W3C published a working draft for HTML 5 on 2008 January 22. Some of the new features in HTML 5 are functions for embedding video , audio, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents.

HTML5 improves interoperability, and reduces development cost. HTML5 group includes the biggest IT brands of the world: AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and many hundred other vendors.

In this post I have collected as many helpful resources as I could on HTML5.

Html 5 tutorials

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It's a 100% flash site and doesn't recommend the latest version of Google Chrome. Good job HBO! :)