
Welcome to Vegas Tech Group. We have been in advertising design, marketing and public relations for almost 10 years.
We live in a world that is saturated with information. Our ability to absorb and understand it has changed significantly in the last two decades. The internet's worldwide "whatever" has created a need for highly targeted media and an endless supply of quickly digestible bites for the ADD generation.
Our goal is to help you channel your communications efforts effectively across diverse media platforms and audiences. My focus is to create well-researched, well-designed media, creative marketing blitzes and buzz-producing public relations campaigns. Check out some recent work here!
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New HTML5 Tags
It will be interesting to see if HTML5, a revision of Hyper Text Markup Language, that’s the basis of the web, can fulfill its promise. The vision is to create richer and more meaningful semantics in order to be more flexible and efficient.
Some new tags:
- <article> tag defines an article
- <aside> tag defines content aside from the page content
- <audio> tag defines sound content
- <canvas> tag defines graphics
- <command> tag defines a command button
- <datalist> tag defines a dropdown list
- <details> tag defines details of an element
- <dialog> tag defines a dialog (conversation)
- <embed> tag defines external interactive content or plugin
- <figure> tag defines a group of media content, and their caption
- <footer> tag defines a footer for a section or page
- <header> tag defines a header for a section or page
- <hgroup> tag defines information about a section in a document
- <keygen> tag defines a generated key in a form
- <mark> tag defines marked text
- <meter> tag defines measurement within a predefined range
- <nav> tag defines navigation links
- <output> tag defines some types of output
- <progress> tag defines progress of a task of any kind
- <rp> tag is used in ruby annotations to define what to show browsers that do not support the ruby element.
- <rt> tag defines explanation to ruby annotations.
- <ruby> tag defines ruby annotations.
- <section> tag defines a section
- <source> tag defines media resources
- <time> tag defines a date/time
- <video> tag defines a video
Hopefully these will prove to be the useful tags we hope they are.
Replacing the DIV Tag
Many old tags have gone the way of the dinosaur. HTML5 has replaced the <DIV> tag, which lacked the ability to specify major parts of the website. The new tags will make it much easier to navigate the code. And for that reason, search engines will love it!
Here is a list of tags that will disappear, never to be seen again:
- <acronym> tag defines an acronym.
- <applet> tag defines an embedded applet.
- <basefont> tag specifies a default font-color, font-size, or font-family for all the text in a document.
- <big> tag is used to format the text one size bigger, and can be in relation to your <font> or <basefont> size, if you’ve specified either one.
- <center> tag is used to center text.
- <dir> tag is used to list directory titles.
- <font> tag specifies the font face, font size, and font color of text.
- <frame> tag defines one particular window (frame) within a frameset.
- <frameset> tag defines a frameset. The frameset element holds two or more frame elements. Each frame element holds a separate document.
- <s> and <strike> tags define strikethrough text.
- <tt> tag is used for “typetype” text, or fixed-width typewriter-type font. Other than the different type style, it has normal font characteristics
- <u> tag is used to underline text.
Replacing the <DIV> Tag
The <div> tag is still one of the major tags used in HTML code but it was semantically weak because of how useless it is when it comes to specifying different sections of the website structure. The new HTML5 tags such as <article>, <aside>, <nav>, <figure>, <header>, <footer> – will be much better for identifying major parts of the website and clarifying the major structure.
The Result
The hope is that the new tags and the semantics in general will raise the level of communication and cooperation between the web audience and the web technologies. From today’s perspective these changes look awesome, but they will only stand the test of time if we all use these new innovations.
**** WordPress 3.0, the new version of the leading blogging software is scheduled for a May release!!
So, WordPress 3.0 will include the following features:
- MU or Multi-User option now will be available to all WordPress 3.0 users. This is a great feature as it will allow you to manage multiple blogs with different permissions – from a single admin panel. Awesome!
- Attention bloggers, the support for custom post types makes creating and managing content much easier. Categories will not disappear.
- The Menu management features a Custom Navigation menu system that is included into the core. It includes many usability features like drag and drop among others, that will be in various menus. This menu enlightens widget management, submenus system and much more.
- There will be a new default design theme, called 2010. A live demo is available on the official WordPress website.
- Custom Background and Image support system will help you create new theme for your blog in a matter of minutes.
- WordPress 3.0 makes it possible to use the specific author templates. So, you can easily mark your own post or entry with your signature.
- Canonical Plugins will be available in WordPress 3.0, so no worries that new releases will kill them.
We hope that some of the issues with older versions will be addressed.
Security is one of the most important features for any platform and old WordPress versions’ minimal requirements of PHP4 and MySQL4 are quite insecure. But we know that now you can easily migrate to PHP5 though this fact only solves the problem partially.
- Chmod 777 command security risks that were one of the favorite topics to discuss for the at least several years now. According to the NerdGrind -
This would make your WordPress installation vulnerable to a security attack. Some plugins might ask you to do this temporarily, and then ask you to change the permissions back to 755 after the plugin finishes its setup. This won’t fix your problem without adding more problems. The might allow the plugin upgrade to work, but it won’t fix the WordPress upgrade issue unless you chmod 777 the entire WordPress installation directory, which is a huge security risk, and should never be done.
- Autosave and revisions issues that sometimes expand your database 20 times from what it was just ten minutes ago. There are some plugins for this problem but we hope this feature can be fixed on a higher level.
- Re-installing WordPress database can cause WP database class bug. This may cause troubles for users especially considering Multi-User merging process. Hakre on WordPress states that this bug will remain in 3.0 version too.
When a replacement class is in use, the original WPDB one will get re-created under certain circumstances instead of the replacement one. That breaks the modular DB replacement concept once introduced.
Despite some concerns, the new release is much anticipated. We all expect WordPress 3.0 to make the web better and safer. We’d love to hear from you about how you think WordPress 3.0 version will affect your online experience. Please share your opinions and ideas. Thanks!

