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Web Application Development & Instructor-led Online Technical Training May 18, 2012

Progressive Enhancement Web Design Explained

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As Web developers, we need to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience - whether users are viewing our sites on an iPhone, a high-end desktop system, a Kindle, or hearing them on a screen-reader. Their experience should be as fully featured and functional as possible.

More and more, folks have become dependent on mobile technology, as mobile handsets are the primary contact method for business and personal communication for many. View the video that explains how Web developers and designers can use one codebase to efficiently serve mobile smartphones, 508-compliant screen readers, and highly interactive browsers.

How to: pre-populate social media share buttons

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When you include email and social media sharing buttons on your Web pages, blog postings, and within your PDF documents, this reminds readers to share your content via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and email. This is a tremendous way to gain more traffic to your content.

The key: Make it easy for the user to share.

Pre-populate the info about your content in share buttons so the message automatically "writes" to the user's social media accounts so they can pass the word.

How do you do it? Follow the step-by-step instructions to create your own share buttons.