Articles by Noupe from July 2015

Gaming on the Web has come a long way with HTML5 technologies like Canvas, WebGL, and WebAudio. It’s now possible to produce high-fidelity graphics and sound within the browser. However, to prov...

Digital coupons are the online cousins of the tried and tested discount stamps. Both work the same way. But instead of scissors to cut them out you just use the copy-paste function. In this part of ou...

A good Google ranking is essential for the success of a website. In the past years, we’ve witnessed continuous updates in the Google algorithm that brought several SEO changes. Three technical r...

During the keynote at the recent //BUILD 2015 conference, our team at Microsoft released Vorlon.js, a tool to debug your website. Vorlon.js is mainly composed of a dashboard which displays data coming...

Banner ads have been around for quite a while. In fact, in internet terms, they have been with us forever, the first ones starting to appear in the mid-90s. Advertising banners are specific areas on a...

Before the Web Audio API, HTML5 gave us the <audio> element. It might seem hard to remember now, but prior to the <audio> element, our best option for sound in a browser was a plugin! The ...

Although in general we understand that the larger part of jaw-dropping posters that owea wow factor to an incredible typographyare artificial and made in some advancedimage editors, yet there are stil...

We know that the customer is always right. However, this motto is often neglected costing website operators a lot of money that could have been better spent. No matter what industry your company is in...

The first version of Flight Simulator shipped in 1980 for the Apple II and, amazingly, it was in 3D! That was a remarkable achievement. Its even more amazing when you consider that all of the 3D was d...

The babylon.JS team at Microsoft recently released a new update (v2.1) with a host of new and improved tools to build browser-based 3D experiences, like Assassins Creed Pirates and Flight Arcade. In t...

This typeface family is not only professional and highly legible. During our Deal of the Week it is also extremely price-worthy. Meet theMuller Font Family. Composed of 20 different fonts, Muller spor...

In part 8 of our Online Marketing Series, we will talk about affiliate marketing. This type of marketing can be a powerful tool especially for sales people. To figure out what it is and how to use it...

Chalk style typography has an old-school vibe, a slightly juvenile character, and urban nature. It managed to carve out an ideal niche for itself as well as mature into an art direction of full value....

Websites have become more comprehensive and complex applications over time. Website interactions are often confirmed with an alert. The browsers standard warning suffices for most cases; however, it l...

It seems like every other day the public is granted some new means of accessing the web. Some days its a new browser. Others its a new smartphone. Or a tablet. Or an e-reader. Or a video game console....

Welcome to part 7 of our Online Marketing series that will cover online video marketing. We will not discuss how to shoot a viral video but rather how online video marketing works and how best to appr...

Developer relations is an integral part of many software companies that hope to win the hearts and minds of developers. You may refer to it as developer evangelism or community outreach but ultimately...

There are some mind-blowing types that radiate of marvelous high-tech Magic and exude an image of sophistication and a subtle sense of brutality. Whether it is a flawlessly reproduced steampunk style ...

CSS and JavaScript provide access to all the elements of an HTML document of course also to texts; however, this is limited to titles and paragraphs. Accessing single sentences and words is not that ...

I recently wrote about RemoteIE which is a tool created to help developers on non-Windows OS’es to test for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. It uses Microsoft’s RemoteApp virtualiz...

Hand-drawn fonts have that personal touch. Whenever you need to express things outside of the machinery, with reminiscences of nature, beauty, and real life, you will turn to fonts that transport posi...

For the last few months I’ve been wanting to dive into this new JavaScript framework since I saw their launch event in October of 2014. Famo.us includes an open source 3D layout engine fully int...