WAI

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/4924/web-accessibility-initiative-wai






The site https://www.techopedia.com has given me a crash course on WAI and what its all about.  First off  the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an initiative developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to help make the Internet more accessible to people with disabilities.  This to me is one of the coolest things I never knew about.  The internet is a very useable source when it comes to getting information at the drop of a dime.  We rarely take time to think about those of us who are disabled and cant use or understand how to use the internet.  

• Providing text alternatives for non-text content
• Presenting the same content in different ways
• Ensuring content is easy to see and hear
• Designing pages so that content appears and operates in predictable ways

These are all ways in which developers make it so that people with disabilities can be more assessable to the internet.

Viewport

http://blog.javierusobiaga.com/stop-using-the-viewport-tag-until-you-know-ho




Started off looking for viewport topics and kept seeing the same thing until I visited javierusobiaga.com. The author of this blog shows an easier more direct but slightly descriptive way of breaking down viewpoint.  Even though it comes off a bit strong all the input commands you need to viewing your page on mostly any device are right here.  Inputs such as Device-width, Initial-Scale, Combo-breaker and plenty others.  Most of the designers out there want their page to be preferable to whomever their viewer is.  No matter what device or browser they tend to use.  And this site can save you a lot of hassle and get you the design you desire

HTML 5 New Input Types

I have jus taken a look on the site html5doctor.com and saw some input types that I haven't seen before.  "Search" was one that I haven't seen yet as far as going over it in class but it caught my attention.  "Email" happened to be another one that I believe will be useful later on down the line while making my webpage.  These two will help your webpage be able to be more efficient on numerous devices and browsers.  I thought the "tel" input was pretty neat as well.  Never knew how some sites when putting in an social security number or telephone number some browsers automatically switch to numbers instead of letters.  Now I know how its done and plan to use that knowledge on my own webpage.

CSS 3 usage

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/5-features-of-css3-you-can-use-today




I found a website where they use a list of different techniques to use with CSS 3 called teamtreehouse.com.  In this website they provide numerous different features u can use to make your website stand out or even jus styled a little better.  One of those would be the Border Radii which allows you to ostensibly curve the corners on a element.  Box Shadows is also another one I can see myself using in the near future, that lets me place a shadow underneath my element.  Opacity caught my interest from the jump.  I feel like transparency is very important when building a website, also color, font, and size.  Soon as I get the html code down, I feel as if the styling of my web page will take it over the top.  With these new features it should be no problem to put together the perfect webpage needed.

Learn HTML5 and CSS3 Fundamentals

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/html5-css3-fundamentals-development-for-absolute-beginners-14207?l=Y4COscFfB_7500115888




When looking for a site to that talks about HTML 5 Web Development I went straight to the source at Microsoft.com.  On the link posted above is a 10 min video I watched that literally if you are having trouble getting a hang of web design puts you in a step by step tutorial on how to begin one.  These series of videos are for the absolute beginners of web designing (people like myself).  By the time I finish watching the videos and work through this class I feel that I will be a pretty decent web designer.  I encourage everyone reading to take a look at these videos if they feel that they need help.

Understanding Forums & Blogs

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/01/28/understanding-the-difference-between-forums-blogs-and-social-networks/


I came across a website called web-strategist.com and saw a article discussing the difference between forums and blogs.  I felt this site and article dumbed down the understanding of a blog to the point where as if a person new to the internet could understand.  They proceeded to compare a persons blog to a keynote speech which I thought was extremely helpful.  Anytime I think of a blog I feel as if its a persons journal but typically available for everyone to see.  I was very interested reading this, and the link is above for anyone who wants to look into the differences between forums and blogs.

The Amazon Firestick

 So yesterday I decided to pick up the Amazon Fire stick.  After driving to 3 different Best Buy stores and both HH Gregg Stores in the Hampton Roads area I finally was able to purchase one.  When I first spoke with the salesman I asked him why were they were low in stock at most stores and had a vast supply of Google Chromecast?  I figured they did pretty much the same thing until he gave me the complete run down.  He proceeded to tell me how the Fire stick came with Netflix, Hulu, and Numerous Apps, and how the Chromecast only portrayed those apps on to a television with using a synced device.  Even then it still bothered me that they were selling like hot cakes.  That's when he told me the underlying reason people were purchasing the Fire sticks in mass amounts.  You can jailbreak a Fire stick to where you can put other apps on to it.  There have been numerous occasions where people have loaded apps onto it that gives you the ability to watch new movies, television shows, and even live television.  Which got me to thinking how long do people believe that this is going to last without repercussions? Only time will tell.