Internet & Web
Droip Review: Why You Should Choose Droip Over Traditional WordPress Page Builders in 2025 — SitePoint
s. In addition, it also takes longer for the web browser to parse the DOM, making pages load slower. A detailed comparison of code output and performance is included at the end of the article. Basic Interactions Modern websites rely on rich, interactive experiences. But with traditional builders, your interaction options are limited or require…
Can Good UX Protect Older Users From Digital Scams? — Smashing Magazine
As online scams become more sophisticated, Carrie Webster explores whether good UX can serve as a frontline defense, particularly for non-tech-savvy older users navigating today’s digital world. A few years ago, my mum, who is in her 80s and not tech-savvy, almost got scammed. She received an email from what appeared to be her bank….
How To Use Paid Search & Social Ads For Promoting Events
Paid media offers one of the fastest ways to promote a business event and get the right people to take action. Event campaigns are not just regular ads with a date added. They need a dedicated strategy, setup, budget, and audience targeting to succeed. From webinars and product launches to open houses and local promotions,…
Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC’s Year of Truth
It’s going to be a year soon since I stepped off the plane at DXB with two suitcases and a head full of grand plans. Let me save you some time with what I’ve learned: the glossy Instagram reels of Dubai’s skyline are tutorial level. The real game starts when you try to do business…
Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI
During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the “$100 million signing bonuses” that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed they had been offering to poach his employees. “Sam is just being dishonest here,” Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, said at the meeting when asked about Altman’s remarks. “He’s suggesting…
Judge in ‘Kadrey v. Meta’ AI copyright case rules for Meta, against authors
Meta just won a major ruling in a landmark case about how copyright law and fair use applies to AI model training, the second such loss for authors this week. Just days ago, Anthropic won a fair use case as well. Late Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Vince Chhabria…
The Death of Web Design: Why Websites Will Soon Auto-Design Themselves
Let’s get this out of the way: most websites in one to five years won’t need you. Or me. Or anyone with Figma open and a mood board full of fancy font pairings. They’ll design themselves. Not like “Wix with AI.” I mean real-time self-adapting, self-healing, audience-aware machines that morph based on context, behavior, and KPIs—without…
Lightly Poking at the CSS if() Function in Chrome 137 | CSS-Tricks
We’ve known it for a few weeks now, but the CSS if() function officially shipped in Chrome 137 version. It’s really fast development for a feature that the CSSWG resolved to add less than a year ago. We can typically expect this sort of thing — especially one that is unlike anything we currently have…
Red Flags in Social Media: How Developers Can Benefit From Online Behavior Analysis — SitePoint
While developers usually focus on more technical aspects when it comes to their work, the social media behavior of people you cooperate with (and even your own!) can impact your business in some not-that-obvious but very serious ways. In this post, we will tell you how social media behavior analysis tools such as Socialprofiler can…
Decoding The SVG path Element: Curve And Arc Commands — Smashing Magazine
On her quest to teach you how to code vectors by hand, Myriam Frisano’s second installment of a path deep dive explores the most complex aspects of SVG’s most powerful element. She’ll help you understand the underlying rules and function of how curves and arcs are constructed. By the end of it, your toolkit is…