Website Construction

Normalize.css: Make browsers render all elements more consistently.

2011-09-07T16:24:00.000-07:00

"Normalize.css is a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. We researched the differences between default browser styles in order to precisely target only the styles that need normalizing."

Looks like great work here. I am going to start using it.

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge"

2011-07-31T21:39:00.000-07:00

"Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash."

All the new developments are so fascinating to watch.

WWW FAQs: How do I put a PowerPoint presentation on my website?

2011-06-24T20:38:00.000-07:00

WWW FAQs: How do I put a PowerPoint presentation on my website?

2007-02-01: It's not hard to put a PowerPoint presentation on the Web. There are three ways to do it. The best choice depends on what you really want to achieve.

schema.org - Home

2011-06-17T18:54:00.000-07:00

"What is Schema.org?
This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages."

Good work moving to the semantic web.

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Images

2011-06-17T18:14:00.000-07:00

"Fluid images.
But what if we could introduce such a constraint? What if we could write a rule that prevents images from exceeding the width of their container?

Well, here’s the good news: that’s very easy to do:"

Good information.

Free Privacy Policy Generator - Template

2011-04-14T12:44:00.000-07:00

"Welcome to FreePrivacyPolicy.com, the #1 Privacy Policy Generator online! Here at Free Privacy Policy, we specialize in helping thousands of website owners create easy-to-read, highly effective, custom privacy policies.

Our intuitive system allows you to create either a basic policy using our free website privacy policy generator, or create an advanced policy with our Premium Service plan, allowing you to create UNLIMITED Professional Privacy Policies with our Professional Privacy Policy Generator - comparable to Truste for less than half the price."

A comprehensive Privacy Policy generator.

PHPEdit 4.0 - March 2011

2011-03-17T01:12:00.000-07:00

"After nearly one year of hard work we are happy to announce the immediate availability of PHPEdit 4.0."

A fine product for the PHP Developer.

InfoQ: REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture

2011-01-30T00:08:00.000-08:00

"Summary
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov introduces the key principles of REST, explaining the differences to other distributed systems architectures and highlighting its benefits. Topics covered include mapping business logic to resource interactions, hypermedia, and documentation."

Excellent overview. Well presented.

InfoQ: A Brief Introduction to REST

2011-01-29T09:10:00.000-08:00

"Most introductions to REST start with the formal definition and background. I’ll defer this for a while and provide a simplified, pragmatic definition: REST is a set of principles that define how Web standards, such as HTTP and URIs, are supposed to be used (which often differs quite a bit from what many people actually do). The promise is that if you adhere to REST principles while designing your application, you will end up with a system that exploits the Web’s architecture to your benefit. In summary, the five key principles are:
Give every “thing” an ID
Link things together
Use standard methods
Resources with multiple representations
Communicate statelessly"

Learn REST: A Tutorial: 12.5. Using REST in PHP

2011-01-27T06:26:00.000-08:00

"Modern versions of PHP make it trivial to GET web pages: any file-access function (even include!) works seamlessly with URLs, too. Thus, you can use fopen, file_get_contents, and any other file-reading function to issue GET requests."

Tonic: A RESTful Web App Development PHP Library

2011-01-27T05:38:00.000-08:00

"Tonic is an open source less is more, RESTful Web application development PHP library designed to do things 'the right way', where resources are king and the library gets out of the way and leaves the developer to get on with it."

A Beginner’s Introduction to HTTP and REST | Nettuts+

2011-01-27T05:06:00.000-08:00

"The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the Web. It’s used every time you transfer a document, or make an AJAX request. But HTTP is a relative unknown among web developers. This introduction will demonstrate how the set of design principles, known as REST, underpin HTTP, and allow you to embrace its fullest power by building interfaces which can be used from almost any device or operating system."

About - cufon - GitHub

2010-09-27T18:03:00.000-07:00

"Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:

1. No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
2. Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
3. Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
4. Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text

And now, after nearly a year of planning and research we believe that these requirements have been met."

Interesting alternative for web fonts.

A List Apart: Articles: Dynamic Text Replacement

2010-09-27T16:50:00.000-07:00

"Text styling is the dull headache of web design. There are only a handful of fonts that are universally available, and sophisticated graphical effects are next to impossible using only standard CSS and HTML.

We can forget all that nonsense. No more image or span tags, no more id attributes or wasted time in Photoshop, and no more messy CSS hacks. Using JavaScript and PHP, we can generate accessible image-headings using any font we like. And we don’t have to change the structure of our HTML or CSS at all."

Fascinating solution. I am going to try it.

WebAIM: Blog - Spam-free accessible forms

2010-09-12T12:10:00.000-07:00

"There has been much discussion lately about how to prevent spambots from submitting forms on web sites. Many solutions have been presented, many of which impact the usability and accessibility of the web page. CAPTCHA is a classic case where the user and accessibility is directly impacted."

Excellent discussion on eliminating form spam not using CAPTCHAS.

Ben's web programming pages: CSS and Images

2010-09-04T22:17:00.000-07:00

"Here's a collection of stuff that I haven't seen widely in use. In what follows I've assumed that your CSS is included using the @import technique as the CSS here could horribly confuse the likes of Netscape 4."

This is a bit dated, but it is still very sound advice. Elegant solutions.

Top Google Chrome Plugins for Website Design - Creare Blog

2010-08-05T17:49:00.000-07:00

"Google maintain their own ‘Chrome Plugins’ gallery, which is full of handy tools that have been developed by budding Web Developers to help in the area of website testing, efficiency and analysis. We’ve digged throughout the gallery and based on our experience of some of the plugins, we’ve put together a list of what we consider to be the top Google Chrome Plugins for Web Designers."

A list of Chrome Development Tools.

Search Engine Optimization Need Not Be An Addition For Your Business’s Website | High Integrity Marketing

2010-07-29T10:48:00.000-07:00

"A lot of the matters to be considered during a website construction are best habits anyway and the webmaster may not appreciate the impact they can have on search engine placement."

Good construction techniques contribute to Search Engine Optimization.

Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating

2010-07-17T16:52:00.000-07:00

"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Good fun with CSS.

PHP Encoder, protection, installer and performance tools from ionCube: ionCube PHP Encoder

2010-07-16T14:35:00.000-07:00

"The ionCube PHP Encoder makes it easy to protect your PHP 4 & 5 source code (up to the PHP 5.2 language) and other files from easy observation, theft and change. With optional PHP licensing features built in as well, licensing PHP scripts to control where your code runs is easy too, and you can even give your files a time expiry!"

Protect your intellectual property.

What is my screen resolution/display resolution? - Screen resolution statistics

2010-07-14T13:27:00.000-07:00

"What is my screen resolution/display resolution? - Screen resolution statistics: Online browser screen tester, shows the screen resolution of your current monitor, provides screen resolution realtime statistics."

A useful tool.

How to create PHP based email form with file attachment

2010-07-05T22:05:00.000-07:00

"How to create PHP based email form with file attachment
This article shows you how to create a PHP based email form that supports file attachment. The article will also show you how to validate the type and size of the uploaded file. "

Emails with attachments is a bit of a puzzle. This article helps.

Free flash banner maker - banner template selection

2010-07-04T02:01:00.000-07:00

"Free flash banner maker - banner template selection.

Create a real unique advertising media for your website, a flash banner including your own pictures.
This is all for free. Just upload your picture(s), setup your advertising texts and adjust the colours for text and background."

PHP Tutorial - HTML E-Mail with JPEG/JPG Attachments

2010-06-29T14:42:00.000-07:00

"PART 2 HTML EMAIL WITH JPEG ATTACHMENTS TUTORIAL
by Jim Plush

In this section we're going to construct a mail script that will send 3 things.

1. A plain text email if the email client does not support MIME type emails
2. An HTML message to the user
3. A JPEG file from my web server"

This is a very simple straight forward tutorial on how to send an attachment.

Upload Multiple Files at Once with PHP

2010-05-07T04:39:00.000-07:00

"Upload Multiple Files at Once with PHP"

A simple clean script to upload multiple files.