Free Marketing Tools
One of the most popular questions that was put to me in the Ask Me a Question post was ‘what tools do you use each and ever day to run your business?’ (full story)
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CakePHP development Tips and Techniques
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)
Resources for Web Developers
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)
PHP Pagination Class (Script)
This is a PHP pagination class for PHP that can be easily customized however you wish. (full story)
Input Field Formatting Tips With CSS
We’re all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details. Label positioning, context highlighting or justifying elements. (full story)
Mistakes in Affiliate Marketing
Just kinda goin’ with the flow here, thinking of some popular mistakes affiliates can make… (full story)
Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons That Can Replace Standalone Software
Firefox add-on developers have created some impressive applications that can replace larger, bloated programs. These add-ons can help if you have a small amount of precious hard drive space or you are on a tight budget and don’t have cash to fork out for applications. (full story)
Javascript Basics
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)
Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials
Text and the way it looks is a major part of any design. A great design can be cheapened if the text on the page looks wrong. Any logo is almost entirely text. From water to fire, these 51 tutorials will show you how to create any style of text you want. (full story)
PHP Security Guide
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)
Guerrilla Marketing Tactics
If you’ve been following this website for a while, you’ve seen our two articles on Guerrilla Marketing Tactics You Should Be Using. There was 24, and then another 26. For the sake of keeping things organized, we’ve put together all 50 in this one post as well as created a downloadable PDF version of the tactics that you can print out, keep on your hard drive, send to friends, upload to your site and distribute, ect. I hope you enjoy it and find some use out of it. If you would like to read the full list online before you download, continue reading. (full story)
Page Detailer
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
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)
Web site performance tips
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)
Great Gallery With CSS
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)
Firebug Extensions
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)
Rid of dotted border from image
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)