July 24, 2020 in Learn
16 Examples of Video-Based Web Design (and Why it Succeeds)
With 85% of marketers harnessing the power of the video website, it’s important your video-based web design doesn’t get left behind in 2020. When developing websites in the current year and beyond, video is a key element. If your development…
February 14, 2013 in Learn
Building Custom Controls for HTML5 Videos
One of my favorite things about HTML5 video is how easy it is to create your own custom controls. This not only allows you to style the controls however you would like but also allows you to add new controls…
January 11, 2013 in Learn
Getting Started with HTML5 Video
Until fairly recently web developers have been largely dependent on plugins like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight when adding video content to their web pages. Whilst these plugins meet the requirements of the task at hand, the approach of having…
July 20, 2011 in Learn
Don't punish everyone
I’ve been listening to Derek Sivers’ new book Anything You Want. It’s packed with amazing advice. He’s also done a bunch of short little videos covering some of the topics from the book. In this video, he talks about policy…
June 23, 2011 in Learn
Re-align in 3 minutes and 59 seconds
Mike Kus recently did an unauthorized re-align of innocentdrinks.co.uk which he unveiled at FOWD London. The point of the excercise was to demonstrate the importance of communicating the personality of a company on it’s website – making it more human….
March 4, 2011 in Learn
Complex Tables: Part 2 Video Tutorial
In this 6 minute video, you’ll learn some additional techniques you can use to improve the accessibility of complex tables. These tips are useful when your table contains three levels of headers. This video is from Think Vitamin Membership, a high-quality…
February 28, 2011 in Learn
Complex Tables: Part 1 Video Tutorial
In this 7 minute video, you’ll start learning some techniques you can use to improve the accessibility of complex tables. These tips are useful when your table contains two levels of headers. This video is from Think Vitamin Membership, a high-quality…
February 25, 2011 in Learn
Yahoo Query Language jQuery Tutorial
In this 9 minute video we look at how to use YQL’s JSONP capabilities to make web service calls directly from the browser, with no need to use your web server as a proxy. We look at how to use…
February 23, 2011 in Learn
SASS CSS Framework Tutorial
In this 7 minute video, you’ll get an overview of SASS, a tool that allows you to write CSS more easily. You’ll also walk through the process of installing SASS. This video is from Think Vitamin Membership, a high-quality video training…
February 22, 2011 in Treehouse News
Introducing the new CSS3 Master Class
We just released our brand-spanking-new Think Vitamin Membership Master Classes! These are brand new 65-minute deep-dive sessions where we design and build a project from scratch, and give you all the code to follow along. Our first Master Class is…
February 14, 2011 in Learn
The future of learning?
We’re passionate about helping people to learn at Think Vitamin Membership HQ, so this video was really fascinating to me. It’s an overview of the new gamification layer that was recently added to Khan Academy. Definitely worth 10 minutes of…
February 14, 2011 in Learn
What is 'Internet'?
This video from 1994 blows my mind. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in just 17 years.