The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database. (full story)
COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color
trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for
ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -
a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit
news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. (full story)
This tutorial explains how to use Paypals IPN system with a simple single item purchase.Instant Payment Notification allows you to integrate your PayPal payments with your website’s back-end operations, so you get immediate notification and authentication of the PayPal payments you receive. (full story)
We wanted to drop this article as we use these CSS gems on almost every site we design, yet once upon a time never knew they existed. We’ve also ordered the list so each tip should follow the last in terms of practive & usability. (full story)
Try our free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. (full story)
Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on top of the Prototype javascript framework. For some extra effects you can add Scriptaculous as well. Check the demos below to see what Starbox is all about and read on for more information on how to customize your own Starboxes. (full story)
Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they’re nice decorative pieces for your office. (full story)
Here is my top source code seach engines and I wanna share them with you. (full story)
If you need to create several pages that didn’t use any models and contained static data inside the default layout. You must first create a controller for these pages and define an action for each static page you needed. However, this solution seemed tedious and would make it difficult to quickly add new pages. (full story)
There is some amazing stuff out there on the Web–resources, tools, tricks, and tips. Problem is, as a Web developer, you spend so much of your time just keeping up with new technologies - learning, playing – and this doesn’t leave much time to go hunting for the latest and greatest tool, or for a better way of doing things. (full story)
This is a PHP pagination class for PHP that can be easily customized however you wish. (full story)
JavaScript is the scripting language of the Internet. JavaScript was developed by Netscape. It is considered to be the most popular scripting language on the Net. JavaScript is used in millions of Web pages to validate forms, to enhance the design, and much more. (full story)
Since PHP is a very high-level scripting language, some of the potential security flaws that many languages present are totally irrelevant to PHP; you don’t have to manage your memory, for example, and thus don’t have to worry about things like buffer-overflows. (full story)
Page Detailer provides instrumentation and visualization of the performance of web page downloads, showing decomposition of the web page into its component parts (e.g., HTML, GIFs, Applets) and the activities involved in retrieving them. By understanding the retrieval schedule for Web page components, page designers can dramatically improve performance by reorganizing content. By decomposing response time, site architects can understand how to tune their servers and/or configure their applications to provide optimum performance. (full story)
Pagetest is an open source tool for measuring and analyzing web page performance right from your web browser. AOL developed Pagetest internally to automate load time measurement of its many websites, and it has evolved into a powerful tool for web developers and software engineers in testing their web pages and getting instant feedback. We decided to release it to the grander web development community to further help evolve it into an even more useful - and free - web performance tool. (full story)
Yahoo! Developer Network blog had an entry by Stoyan Stefanov and presentation from PHP Quebec conference. A few points to take away, in case you don’t feel like going through 76-slide presentation: (full story)
Today we are going to create a pure CSS image gallery, including a description of each image, from scratch. There are many advantages to using a CSS image gallery as opposed to a JavaScript gallery. For one, you need not worry about learning JavaScript or finding a quality script, and you also needn’t worry if the user has JavaScript Disabled. One of the original pure CSS image galleries may be found at CSS Play, which features a CSS gallery with the images on the bottom and no descriptions. (full story)
Have you ever been interested in what extensions are available for Firebug? If yes, take a look at what I have found. Frankly, I was quite surprised how many Firebug extensions already exists out there. (full story)
Many times, when you click on someone’s logo, you see that little dotted border around the image when you click it. I think it looks sloppy. (full story)