kaidez - Web Development Tutorials & JavaScript Coding Tips

A list of good reasons why it's better to learn JavaScript before jQuery.

Great, useful JavaScript books listed from easiest to hardest.

JavaScript closures tutorial using the New York City subway to explain how they work.

A lengthy but simple explanation of what HTML5 is with suggestions on how business can use it.

JavaScript for loop dynamically creates a jQuery fade in/fade out effect with a delay; includes a demo, code sample and screencast tutorial.

Great book for learning HTML5 games development as well as web development best practices.

kaidez recalls the best about Steve Jobs

Great mobile web development best practice resource list-includes site speed gurus, blogs & a podcast featuring jQuery creator, John Resig.

Creating a Facebook app is easy but doing so generates CSS expressions and creates page reflows, all of which reduce page optimization

Starter mobile web development best practices including YSlow & Page Speed tests and minifying pages with HTML5 Boilerplate's build script

kaidez developed Almay's Facebook What's New page following some best practices in terms of mobile web development.

The new Mitchum site was developed with HTML5 using HTML5 Boilerplate, Visual Studio 2010 with NuGet, CSS and some light jQuery

kaidez reviews his progress with learning web development and how his blog is doing in terms of content, SEO and social network promotion

A list of front-end web development courses that kaidez will take at MIX11 2011 and brief explanations of some other courses available

A great New York Times piece on HTML5 application development and a demo of their new HTML5 Skimmer site

A quick review of HTML5 Boilerplate version 1.0, discussing the new build script for site optimization and custom site template build

A tutorial on creating a rounded corner, transparent CSS3 link in Internet Explorer 6 through 8 with CSS3 PIE

An article on responsive web design, CSS3 media queries and using it in kaidez's HTML5 Project, resource list of links at the end

A negative review of Peachpit Press' jQuery: Visual Quickstart Guide, but it doesn't take away from the fact that the VQS Series is great

Ben Schwarz gives us HTML5-A technical specification for Web developers, translating WHATWG's HTML5 arduous spec into layman's terms

An extensive article with tips, resources and ideas for high school students wanting to work in the web design or development field someday

Walk-through of Aaron T.

A quick review of a great WordPress SEO speech from Joost de Valk, AKA Yoast, with the video embedded on the page for instant viewing

Kai Gittens, (kaidez) will be at Microsoft's Mix11 Conference in Las Vegas in April 2011 and will be at the HTML5/CSS3 and jQuery bootcamps

Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate video is extremely informative as it demonstrates many great CSS and JavaScript hacks and best practices

HTML5 Readiness neatly displays browser support for HTML5 and CSS3

A list of great HTML5 articles compiled by kaidez

Oli Studholme from HTML5 Doctor corrects my previous post on HTML5, SEO and microdata

Kristin Volk of MediaVest added some extra information to my recap of the Cross-Mobile Promotion panel at the 2011 NYC Social Media Week

Short article about how jQuery does not have a replacement for JavaScript's document.write and has a not-so-great replacement for its navigator.UserAgent

The cross mobile promotion panel at NY Social Media Week used Nielsen and comScore stats to show how brands use mobile to promote products

The social listening panel at NYC Social Media Week showed how companies like Pepsi track their products within the social networks

Final article in the HTML5 wireframe series for the kaidez portfolio site

Part Two of my explanation on how I created wireframed my HTML5 site before I developed and designed it

Wireframes for the portfolio site of Kai Gittens, who has worked at Blue Cross/Blue Shield, JPMorgan Chase, jetBlue, MedPage Today & Revlon

HTML5 wireframe preview of kaidez.com portfolio site

Using WebMatrix to create a WordPress development site

Additions to my list of resources to help you learn web design and development and my Coolsites list, including a Sitecore and .NET development blog

HTML5's Microdata feature is a good tactic if properly formatted

How I plan to study HTML5, CSS3 and .NET

Stefanos Kofopoulos from pestaola.gr shares some excellent usability & analytics tips that he applied to his Wordpress-based blog.

My HTML5 Project will use HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Modernizr, maybe CSS PIE, and will be a portfolio of my work and experiments.

HTML5 Video Tips from kaidez

Kaidez guest post at Inspired Magazine responded to Cameron Chapman's web designer article at Smashing Magazine

A very popular, cross-browser complaint jQuery image rollover

An easy jQuery tutorial to fade in and fade out two images with a delay

Kaidez developed four micro-sites for Almay using HTML5 video, jQuery, .NET and CSS

AJAX, jQuery and HTML5 are big buzz words in the web design/development community nowadays.

My cool jQuery t-shirt

A review of the Pro HTML5 Programming by Apress