Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. Google purchased Blogger in 2002 and it is focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world’s information from the personal perspective.

Blogs can be used for many things like updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest.

Its very easy to setup a Blogger account:

1- Create an account

2- Name your blog

3- Choose a template

There are many templates offered by Blogger and many other companies / individuals / bloggers are offering free and premium blogger templates. Today, Greepit is sharing a list of sites that offers Professional Blogger Templates for free.

The Blog Templates

Blog Crowds

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Apple published a showcase to demonstrate Safari’s HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript capabilities. A set of nice HTML5 demos, worth checking out.

The demos show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support.

HTML5 demos include:

• Interactive Implementation of Web Typography
• Horizontal / Vertical Web Image Gallery
• Photo Transitions
• HTML5 Audio implementation
• 360 Product Views
• Sticky Notes
• Offline Calendar

Apple also hosted a Dev center for developers to learn how to create such effects and an excellent library of source codes that you can build, modify, and execute to explore how to accomplish specific tasks with Apple technologies.

Google Chrome has helped web developers because of the features available in the web browser. Google Chrome has various AWESOME extensions that save developers time by giving them ability to track bugs and performance issues for their applications.

Lets have a look at few useful extensions for web developers.

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

It comes with many options including on-screen ruler, page re-size, multiple validation options, hidden elements viewer and color picker.

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HTML5 is the major revision of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language (HTML). CSS3 is level 3 language and based on modules.

Test your browser for HTML5 & CSS3 support

HTML5 & CSS3 Readiness

Visually test HTML5 & CSS3 features support for your browser. With your mouse wheel, it will scales up and down interestingly.

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A fast loading website with good images and scripts performance is the first step to a successful online presence, but in real we use many tools , plugins, widgets in our website and those tools simply cause our website to load slow. The search engine panelizes the websites and we don’t get higher rankings in the search results due to the long response time.

Here is a list of free and open source tools and plugins that can help us to test performance and speed of our websites. With their suggestions, we can improve site’s response time.

 Website speed check

The website speed tester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

BrowserMob – Free Website Performance Test Tool

Test your website performance with this free cutting edge tool. This tool accesses your website from different location and generates a website performance analysis report.

PageTest

Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist.

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