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I found this week a web site that has very interesting information about technology trend jobs. This information is vital in order to have a very good idea about how the IT market is consuming those technologies. I really worth to see those charts below and reflect on it. The information cames from Indeed and Simply Hired they have much more if you want to look at, but I have chosen to embbed in in the blog what has to do with HTML5, jQuery, Mobile Apps, iOS, and Android. Indeed and Simply Hired searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites. This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs people find that contain the search terms. 1. Mobile App Trends Mobile-app jobs 2. HTML5 Job Trends HTML5 Job Trends 3. jQuery Job Trends jQuery Job Trends 4. iOS Job Trends iOS Job Trends 5. Android Job Trends Iphone, Ipad, Ios, Android, Wp7, "Windows Phone", Blackberry, Webos, Cordova, Ph

REAL USABILITY MATTERS - Usability is one of the single most important thing you can do to ensure success and money. Any design should have the user in mind, however when we talk about small screens this is a must. The Google presentations  What is a mobile site and why do you need one?  try to give business people and even developers the awareness that mobile sites nowadays is a must - but if they are build without the user in mind there is not use to have it. Their case studies are interesting. Mobile-friendly web apps help businesses: To connect with their customers Increase Revenues Reduce Costs because when sites are optimised and user-friendly you give your customers means to get what they want instead of wonder around, get tired and go to your competitor. The catch is that the only way to accomplish that is to invest in Usability. IT IS ALL ABOUT USABILITY. Improved usability makes you INCREASE YOUR MARKET SHARE - the like effect - word of mouth. Incre

Mobile Friendly Contact Forms The way to go for mobile friendly contact forms is the touch-friendly CSS styling in order to make the buttons, controls and inputs with touchscreen experience. 1. Large touch target areas will definitely improve the form input fields 2. Other forms of input can also greatly benefit from input controls with CSS styling 3. HTML5 input types should be use to trigger keyboard events to aid the user on having  a great experience. Depending on the input type selected mobile browsers have different on-screen keyboards for different froms of data that should be taken into account. Just by including in the label the type="" and inside the quotes tel for phone numbers, url for websites, time for time, date for the date, e-mail for email we can make the keyboard behave accordingly with is very useful. I constantly came across mobile websites that make me look for the @ when I have to enter my e-mail, or any other type of data that is n