Web Development Learning Resources

Google street view just got more interesting. Beginning in Summer 2013, Google joined VisitFlorida.com, Florida’s tourism agency, to make all of Florida’s beach available on Google Maps. While Google is making a similar effort photographing the trails of the Grand Canyon, this is the first large scale trekking for beaches.

Creating an RSS feed of tweets was very straightforward with version 1 of the API, but not so much anymore with version 1.1. Here is a simple way to create an RSS feed using the new Twitter API 1.1

Over a billion users on Facebook, 500,000 thousand on Twitter, and pushing 400,000 on Google+ – there’s alot of potential there to reach new customers, and maintain connections with current customers. So if your business isn’t currently active across the social media networks, it’s time to dive in.

With so many devices now online, it’s important to make sure your website is cross-device compatible. Do you know what your website looks like on a smart phone? How about on a 60″ flat screen tv? With ‘responsive’ design, the layout of your website is fluid and can adapt to be useable and attractive across all the different modern devices with internet connections.

The thought of paying a couple bucks every time someone clicks a paid link to your site can be very intimidating. It’s important to manage the ad campaigns effectively by making sure that if someone clicks your ad, they’re likely to be a potential customer. One quick and easy way is to limit your display network to zip codes within your area with demographic qualities that fit your target customer.