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Creating an image gallery without MySQL

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:28:19 GMT

Author: Claudiu Gilcescu-Ceia - Published date: 15-04-2011 Ever wanted to create a photo gallery that would fetch the photos from a folder on the server without actually taking the image paths from a database? Well, here's a small code snippet that would solve the problem for you and output the paths to the images into an XML with the following structure:CODE: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <gallery> <item iPath="path/to/file1.jpg"/> <item iPath="path/to/file2.jpg"/> </gallery> If you have any questions regarding it, or encounter any issues implementing it in your own project,...

How to choose the colours for a graphic design

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:07:26 GMT

Author: Adry.ro - Published date: 14-04-2011 I believe you have been through this as I have. You can barely find a palette suitable for a site. Any site. We all know that finding the right colours is not an easy task, as they have to match perfectly, be complementary colours and please the eye. Colours can change moods, emotions and influence behaviours of the visitors, but also reflect and identify the personality of a brand.Warm coloursRed - is one of the most powerful colours, attracting the eye. Red symbolizes passion, fire and love. It has been proven that it can raise blood pressure and cause perspiration. Red communicates energy and...

How to check the timeload of your website?

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:35:53 GMT

Author: Avadanei Andrei - Published date: 13-04-2011 We all know how annoying it is to just wait too long for a website to load. Some studies show that 75% of the people visiting a website that loads more than 4-5 seconds will not visit it again. I believe that the best method to check the time of your website load is to use several locations that comprise the niche in which they activate. Also, checking the timeload can be done manually too, by using certain extensions, such as Firebug for Mozilla Firefox that will tell you the timeload of the website page only for that specific site. This method would require your presence in several locations around...

Reduce your Bounce Rate in 15 Steps

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:11:55 GMT

Author: Avadanei Andrei - Published date: 12-04-2011 A very big problem in our statistics, in addition to traffic, conversion, returning visitors, etc.. is the bounce Rate. The smaller the better. But...What is bounce rate?Bounce Rate (also known as the output %) is a term that is used to analyze traffic and quality. We define a "bounce" when a visitor leaves a page (one site) without visiting other pages during a browsing session. This session differs from a monitoring system to...

What is PayPal? How do we use it?

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:42:38 GMT

Author: Adry.ro - Published date: 11-04-2011 What is PayPal?The service provided by PayPal.com works as a bank account, the only difference being that everything is done electronically from the computer through an Internet connection. A user opens a Paypal account you can "load" with a value for it using a credit card compatible with online payments. The money will be withdrawn from the account in the traditional way and move electronic to...

Minifying and gzipping HTML on the run with PHP

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:26:19 GMT

Author: Claudiu Gilcescu-Ceia - Published date: 04-03-2011 Continuing on the same topic as before, when I wrote about CSS minifying and compression, a major improvement can be done on HTML as well, but it's a bit trickier. Simply removing white spaces from an HTML document can lead to problems in the way the document itself is displayed, validation errors and tons of other problems. Still, HTML gzip compression should take out most of the whitespace, so we could maybe just consider stripping comments. Still, make sure that there's no bit of code, Javascript especially, that relies on some HTML comments, as that will obviously break them. ...

PHP MVC

Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:49:30 GMT

Author: Adrian Cojocariu - Published date: 03-03-2011 PHP MVC - what is it? why would you want to use it and which one, and finally, how? I'll skipp over the acronym explanation and i'll godirectly to "Why MVC?" more exactly "why PHP MVC?" although the idea can be extended to other development languages.You need to work with MVC (PHP) if ....You have a enough experience with PHP and you're aware of everything new in each version of PHP as of...

Google results are influenced by speed

Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:05:32 GMT

Author: Andrei Avadanei - Published date: 02-03-2011 After numerous rumors that I have read and argued about the fact that Google results are influenced by the page loading speed, the company is taking another step and write a press release confirming this.They stated that based on numerous internal statistics they have reached to this decision - Internet users spend more time on a site with a good upload speed and give up quickly to those...

Website in 6 steps and no coding

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:33:36 GMT

Author: Hurmuz Gheorghita - Published date: 01-03-2011 Silverlight is an alternative version from Microsoft, for the Flash platform. Microsoft Expression Blend 3 is a tool that simplifies the way you work with Silverlight, a software WYSIWYG (What you see is What you get). Today I decided to share you the ease with which you can create a website with a professional design without writing any code in Blend (if you have worked with the Flash platform then you...

Google Webmaster Tools and improving performance

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:43:40 GMT

Author: Andrei Avadanei - Published date: 28-02-2011 ContentAbout Google Webmaster ToolsSet up WebsiteYour web siteDiagnosticsGoogle Labs1. About Google Webmaster ToolsGoogle Webmaster Tools is by far the best tool created by Google for people who monitor the performance of a web site in the search engine Google. This tool provides us with various applications that keep us on the number of pages indexed, the way that they are distributed, internal backlinks, page load...