In part 2 of a look at HTML5, Nancy will show you how to add CSS to the previously unstyled document from part 1 and why there are some differences you need to watch out for.  In this week’s article, we are going to dive into styling the document created in part 1 and show a couple of ways styling can be done without breaking the rules.

Previously, Linda wrote about how to get started with connecting your WordPress (WP) blog with social media. In this article, she provides even more ways to make your blog totally social, with a list of 25 plugins  for WP and more.

Infographics, or information graphics, are making a comeback across the Web. Have you thought about using an infographic for your resume? Linda explores this option in this article.

Privacy issues have resurfaced with Facebook over the past few weeks, and Linda covers it all this week – including issues that have taken a back seat to the main Facebook privacy settings.

There’s been a lot of talk about which Android devices would get Froyo, and now it seems that Google has quietly upgraded the Nexus One. According to the company’s blog, Nexus One users should have already started receiving Froyo over-the-air.

The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM) is a unique virtual space designed to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work and to present expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society.

Yesterday, Amazon released its highly anticipated Kindle e-book reader software for Android devices, which gives Google’s smartphone and MID operating system immediate legitimacy as an e-Reading platform. The Kindle for Android software, once downloaded from the Android Market, has a very similar look and feel to the iPad/iPhone version, with a cool blue home screen.

Although still early in the process, newly leaked documents about Windows 8 offer some keen insight into where Microsoft wants to head with the next version of the operating system. One thing that is made abundantly clear is that Microsoft has been paying attention to Apple. In the documents, which appear to come from an April meeting with computer makers, Microsoft discusses its Cupertino, Calif.-based rival and outlines plans to offer a Windows Store similar to the way Apple distributes software on its iPhone.

Adobe launched Flash Player for Android 10.1 yesterday--the latest move in the Chess match between Adobe and Apple over the future of interactive mobile ads and video content. Now, the world can begin to experience firsthand whether Flash delivers as expected on smartphones, or if Steve Jobs made the right move in turning his back on the platform.

There are localized apps for getting schedules, but it's also convenient that public transportation scheduling is one of a handful of enhanced features in Google Maps for Android version 4.3, new on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Apple unveiled a new site to showcase HTML5. On it, Apple showed off a number of impressive web demos coded using only HTML5 technologies. However, at least on the main page, these demos were restricted to working on only Apple's Safari web browser. So now Google is countering with its own HTML5 site -- called, get this, HTML5Rocks.

If you have blog content, you may want your readers to share that content. In this article, Linda offers a variety of ways to help your readers share what you've written. The focus in this article is on Gravatar, avatars and linking to social media through WordPress Global.

HTML5 brings a whole host of new goodies to web design including the new local storage facility where data can be stored on the client where it is easily accessible. Cookies have been the only data storage mechanism on the client that the browser has access to for many years and although they have served us well in that time, they do have their limitations such as the constraints on their size and per-domain limitations. Now we no longer have to worry about these issues and can work with local storage instead.

Local storage has many benefits; in an application that requires frequent access to stored data, reading or writing the data from or to their own computer is always going to be much faster than by sending AJAX requests to the server. We also have access to a much greater size (the draft specification recommends an arbitrary size of 5 megabytes) so we aren’t constrained to the limit of just 4 kilobytes that a cookie allows.

In this tutorial we’ll look at how to build a cool site-monitoring widget that allows you to monitor the status of multiple sites. If you maintain a large number of web sites checking that each one individually is up and running could be a time-consuming chore, but with this widget we can instantly see if any sites are down.

We’ll use jQuery to build the interface and communicate with the server and we’ll use PHP and the cURL extension to actually check each site is up and running by making a request to the specified sites and checking which response headers are returned. We’ll also be using MySQL to store the URLs of the site’s we’ll be monitoring; it’s not strictly required, there are a number of alternative storage methods we could use including a plain text file, a PHP array, a JavaScript array, etc, but MySQL is probably the most robust method and it means we can easily add new sites to monitor.

After announcing that WebKit on Mac OS X has support for CSS 3D transforms, now it comes on Windows too! It allows you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. Also, the CSS 3D Transforms are fully Hardware Accelerated, so this gives you major speed gain!

Just after the announcement  of the new iPhone 4 at WWDC, Apple announced the release of Safari 5 for Windows and Mac. A huge part of Safari 5 is the mainstream availably of a large number of HTML5 features. Previously, many of these features have been available on nightly builds of Webkit—which are essentially Safari 4 wrapped around cutting-edge builds of Apple’s web rendering engine. With the release of Safari 5, Apple is rolling out support for full-screen video and closed-captioning on HTML5 video, Geolocation, sectioning elements, draggable attribute, forms validation, Ruby, AJAX History, EventSource, and WebSockets.

Adobe announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Lightroom 3 software for Windows and Macintosh, the essential digital photography workflow solution that allows photographers to quickly organize, enhance and showcase their images from one application.

The iPhone 4 got a preemptive teardown on Monday courtesy of CEO Steve Jobs at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. One of the key goals is to pack more features and functionality into a smaller space: at 9.3mm thick, the device will be 24 percent thinner than its predecessor.

Google announced today the official release of Chrome 5 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It arrives less than a month after Google made the new version available through its beta channel. This release reflects Chrome's rapid pace of evolution and Google's strong commitment to advancing Web technology and performance.

As of Tuesday morning, the 8GB iPhone 3G is no longer for sale on Apple's Web site. Apple has been offering a steep discount on the 3G(not the 3GS) since last year and now it appears customers no longer have the option to buy it online at all. Apple hasn't responded to a request for comment about it.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits that Facebook "missed the mark" with its recent privacy changes, promising that simpler privacy controls are on the way. In an op-ed piece published in the Washington Post Monday, Zuckerberg loosely outlines the company's plan to make things easier on users and promises that Facebook is taking the recent criticism about its decisions to heart.

Adobe released a native PDF reading app for Android phones. The software, which went up in the Android Marketplace Friday, lets users quickly open up PDFs they download from a browser, or that they've received in e-mail attachments. It packs multitouch gestures for zooming, landscape orientation, and a tool that will resize the text on wide documents to fit your phone's narrow screen.

What if you uploaded a blog, committed to backups, installed all the right plugins (like a firewall) and kept WordPress up to date and still get hacked? In this article, Linda explains how to handle that situation.

Hold onto your socks – WordPress is about to release version 3.0. What does this mean? Linda explains all in this article...

What if you're too busy to run a blog? What if you want to use WordPress as a static site with a store? In this article, Linda will answer both those questions with ways to resolve your goals.

Yesterday at Moscone West in San Francisco, Google kicked off its largest developer conference of the year - Google I/O. Over two days, 5,000 people from 66 countries will hear from 200 speakers, see 180+ developer demonstrations and participate in more than 90 technical sessions, breakouts and fireside chats to meet engineers from Google and partner companies.

At the Google I/O conference, Adobe announced a new HTML5 solution that is immediately available for Web designers and developers. The Adobe HTML5 Pack is an extension to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, the latest version of the industry-leading HTML authoring tool for website design. This extension provides more creative options to Adobe Creative Suite 5 users – so they can more easily create, deliver and optimize compelling content consistently, across the widest array of screens, to maximize revenue streams and forward their businesses.

Authorities in both Germany and the US are expected to begin inquiries into Google's "accidental" collection of WiFi payload data by its Street View cars. German commissioner for data protection Peter Schaar has asked for a detailed probe of the incident while consumer group Consumer Watchdog has demanded that the US Federal Trade Commission look into Google's activities on this side of the pond.

Yahoo has acquired Associated Content, one of a few companies that has been scrambling to fill the Web's appetite for cheap, fast, diverse media content.

A few days ago, Chrome turned 6. Version 6, that is, though only on the developer preview channel. The move doesn't mean a radical new version of Google's browser is available to test--the changes over the 5.0 series are pretty minor, chiefly reflecting the fact that a new branch has sprouted from Chrome's source-code tree. But the change is important for a couple reasons.