Web Design

Top 10 Useful Books For Web Design

2012-06-25T21:41:00.000-07:00

1. Web Design: Navigation – Julius Wiedemann

This addition to the popular ICONS Web Design series focuses on very carefully crafted navigation systems, where usability and narrative are taken in consideration in the development of the website.

Released: March 2009

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2. The Findability Formula: The Easy, Non-Technical Approach to Search Engine Marketing

This book will help position your business front-and-center when prospects are searching for solutions online.

In addition, Lutze explains how to respond to your customers and understand their issues, wants, and needs so that you can more easily turn prospects into customers. Her step-by-step approach, up-to-date research, and warnings about common pitfalls make this the ultimate practical guide to getting your business noticed on the Internet.

Released: March 2009

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3. A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers In The Field or In The Making – Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler

This book presents a chapter-by-chapter guide through an appropriate User Experience process, as well as provides additional information on the creating SOWs and Proposals, Project Ecosystem, best practices for meetings, and understanding business requirements.

User Experience neophytes and professionals alike should be able to find information relevant to any phase of a project in this book.

Released: March 2009

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4. When Search Meets Web Usability – Shari Thurow and Nick Musica

This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings.

It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users’ experience once they get to the site.

By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information architects, Web designers/developers, SEOs/SEMs, and usability professionals build better interfaces and functionality into Web sites.

Creating a satisfying user experience is the key to maximizing search effectiveness and getting conversions.

Released: March 2009

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5. Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces that Work – Elliot Jay Stocks

Designing usable and aesthetically pleasing interfaces is crucial to the success of any application on today’s Web. This book answers critical questions such as:

What makes a web site work?
What makes a web site look good?
What makes a web site easy to use?

This book also covers the process of web site design from the discovery phase all the way through production and the development of style guides.

Released: March 2009

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6. Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field – Helen Armstrong

Graphic Design Theory distills modern design thinking into twenty-four essential essays.

It presents ground-breaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers—from Aleksandr Rodchenko’s “Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group” to Kenya Hara’s “Computer Technology and Design”

This fundamental survey quickly reveals key evolving ideas in the industry, putting them into a rich historical and cultural context.

To Be Released: April 4, 2009

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7. Search Engine Optimization for Flash: Best Practices for Using Flash On The Web – Todd Perkins

This breakthrough book offers you a series of best practices for using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, for building sites with Flash that will stand tall in search rankings. You’ll learn how search engines work, what constitutes a search-engine-optimized (SEO) site, and what to watch out for in the way of SEO pitfalls. With this concise book, you will:

Learn about searchable content, and understand the importance of metadata, keywords, and links
Place HTML content in your Flash applications
Create an SEO website by connecting Flash to JavaScript and CSS
Work effectively with SWFObject by understanding its capabilities and limitations
Realize the advantages of using the Adobe Flex framework for SEO

The first -and only- book that explains how to optimize Flash content for search engines,Search Engine Optimization for Flash is an invaluable resource if you develop with Flash and want to be sure your audience can easily find your site.

To Be Released: April 6, 2009

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8. Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers – Jason Cranford Teague

Speaking in Styles targets Web designers, aiming to help them learn the “language” that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet.

Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it’s too hard to learn.

Author Jason Teague takes an approach to CSS that breaks it down around common design tasks and helps the reader learn that they already think in styles- they just need to learn to speak the language.

To Be Released: April 7, 2009

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9. Professional Web Widgets with CSS, DOM, JSON and Ajax – Rajesh Lal and Lakshmi Chava

Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is the first guide to building web widgets – tiny applications that can be embedded in a web page or on the desktop and have exploded in popularity in recent months.

Inside, award-winning programmer Rajesh Lal provides readers with a methodology for building widgets using standards like CSS and DOM to create widgets that work anywhere.

Next he guides readers though the creation of widgets using several popular toolkits and frameworks including Yahoo! Widgets, Silverlight with PopFly, Google Web Toolkit, Microsoft Web Gadgets and more.

Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is heavy on step-by step examples enabling readers to get up to speed and begin building widgets quickly and easily.

To Be Released: April 13, 2009

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10. Semantic Web Programming – John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez, Mike Dean

The next major advance in the Web 3.0 will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.

Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains and examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet.

Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web.

To Be Released: April 13, 2009

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Latest Trends in Web Design 2011-12

2012-06-01T02:12:00.001-07:00

In this post, we are going to discuss all those changes, upcoming trends, new design elements and new design approaches which were identified, discovered and observed over the last few months. So let’s dig into the post covering the current trends of web design as 2011 turns to 2012.

1. Simple Color Schemes

Simplicity is yet another recent design trend that has captured the respect and imagination of users. Instead of using black and white or shades of grey designers are experimenting with primary colors like green, yellow or red intelligently to create a web design which is something simple and truly remarkable, but limited their palette to two or three colors and are playing with shades of each color to create really inspiring color combination to communicate a message.
Some of the best examples of great web design inspired with color schemes formed by using different shades of primary colors like green and red.
WideView

Motionoto

2. Mobile Device Compatibility

With the increasing popularity of tablet technology and smart phones, web designers must adapt to new standards. With different screen resolutions its difficult to accommodate the whole site in small mobile screen. Instead of having to create a separate, lackluster site, CSS3 allows web designers to accommodate mobile technology into the website design. One of the most important advances is that you can design a whole site and allow your coding to conform to the user’s viewing medium.
A mobile website should retain the design elements of the original, just in a smaller, touch-screen-friendly format. Today, more people will be buying smartphones than personal computers. That means that websites should look just as good on a tiny screen as on high-definition larger monitors.
Google

G-Shock

Dolce & Gabbana

4. Parallax scrolling

In 2012 creating a sense of dimension and depth will become more common and web designers are more focused to create a sense of depth in website design and this is the most effective web design trend for 2012. This emerging trend brings parallax scrolling into the picture. The Parallax effect or parallax scrolling in web design is the technique that features layered images that move around the website in different speeds/perspectives creating a nice and interesting 3D illusion. It can be done with the help of simple CSS tricks, jQuery plugins, HTML5, JavaScript and even Flash
Egopop Creative Studio

Head2Heart

Webdesign Karlsruhe

5.Touch screen-friendly website designs

In modern time, technology has been becoming more tactile which resulted in a huge shift from usability to tangible. With smart phones, tablets, and even some desktops using touch screens, designers need to accommodate fingertip navigation. Links that change color, or underline when a mouse is hovered over them will not have the same effect on a touch screen. As per this trend, horizontal scrolling websites are considered more appropriate for touch screens.
Interexpresso

6. Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design is a different approach of web design using this technology one can create a flexible website layout that dynamically fits into the screen of every device at any resolution, from desktop to laptop and from browser supported smart phones to any kind of mobile devices. This technique enables web developers to create one version of the website that fits in all devices rather then creating different version of the same website for different devices.
Simon Collison

Sparkbox

Think Vitamin

7. Typography

Stylized typography is an age-old feature, and today designers are using it to give their designs a different look. In past years, typography has been overlooked because customizing typography used to be a complicated method. Now web designers can integrate custom fonts into websites with tools such as WhatTheFont, CSS Typeset and Typetester which has helped designers be more creative. Mixing bold and scrolling letters and using extra-large font sizes to grab viewers’ attention is becoming mainstream. Think bold, fun, and unique.
Forefathers

Carsonified

8. Big Images & Photo Backgrounds

Big images aren’t new; wider screen sizes offer a bigger window with which to display them. More sites will be using that space for great big images in 2012. Images with high resolution covering the entire site. Large photos are an instant way to grab the audience attention.
Cpeople

Miraclestudios

Nespresso

9.Textured Backgrounds

The use of textured backgrounds is another hot trend to follow. The visual experience of the audience increases exponentially if the background is aesthetically pleasing and precise. The points to focus on are simplicity of design and the illusion of textures to create depth and dimension on the page.
Cake Sweet Cake

Alpine Meadows

Organic Supermarket

10. Single Page Design

The ever-expanding competition to keep users on a website is becoming more challenging. Visitors scan web pages to locate the information they want, but with each click required to delve deeper into the website, the interest level drop. This phenomenon has led to a growing desire to build single-page websites. Interaction is key, and more user friendly websites will start to crop up.
Ryanscherf

Imagemechanics

11. Social Media Sharing

The integration of social media will continue to spread like wildfire throughout the web in the future. This practice has allowed businesses to gain greater exposure and access to users than ever before. Online businesses, big and small, will focus squarely on this.

12.CSS3 + HTML 5

One of the most unexpected trends observed over the last few months was the more use of CSS3 and HTML5. Most of web designers are jumping from Flash to HTML5. HTML5 introduced to share the burden placed on Flash but HTML5 cannot substitute Flash when it comes to create the extraordinary design elements. HTML5 now works on Firefox 3.5 and higher, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer 8. This programming language is all about giving developers more flexibility, connecting data / drawings / videos / audio, and delivering designs faster.
Not all browsers have adopted CSS3 as a whole yet, but they are slowly starting to come around. Some of the new features of CSS3 include rounded corners, mega drop-down menus, animated buttons, multiple backgrounds, box shadow, text shadow, transparent images and lot more… Animations with CSS3 are made easy, subtle and lightweight.
Below are some examples:
jetcooper

sundaybestdesigns

chirp.twitter

Latest Trends in Web Design

2012-06-01T02:04:00.000-07:00

I thought it was time to bring you some of the latest on interactive design. There’s a lot going on when it comes to Social Media; brands are attempting to finalize strategies and maximize Return on Investments to acquire a strong position on emerging social networks such as Pinterest.
While technology develops and new devices are brought to the user, creative freedom doesn’t necessarily expand, and the design job doesn’t consequently get easier, but clever solutions are at our fingertips. This article aims to explain and exemplify two of the major trends that can fuel creative discussions with your digital teams.

RESPONSIVE DESIGN
Responsive Design is a powerful trend that suits our users’ environment and context. We have all been bombarded with the ‘CLOUD’, which serves the user who desires data in the form of APPS and documents across multiple devices without the information being stored on each device individually.
In order to make APPS, websites, and documents easy to read, navigate and use across the variety of devices that people use today, design needs a specific approach so that layouts are tailored to the characteristics of each gadget, such as screen sizes and controls (i.e. click or touch).
Responsive design, a few examples:
http://2012.ampersandconf.com
http://www.designmadeingermany.de/magazin/5/

PARALLAX SCROLLING
Parallax scrolling is a technique wherein background images move slower or in different directions than the overlaying foreground elements. The feeling of depth that is generated from this behavior can at times be stunning, and at times annoying. We have seen the world’s biggest brands experiment with this trend. A few examples for you to discover:
http://www.manufacturedessai.it/it/

http://www.ok-studios.de/home/
http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/aj2012/
http://artofflightmovie.com/
http://www.beetle.com/

Resize your browser screen to see how the layout changes when the window gets smaller.

GRE VOCAB QUESTIONS

2012-05-22T03:28:00.001-07:00

VOCAB QUESTIONS FOR GRE AND PLACEMENT PREPARATION:

1. Depreciation: deflation, depression, devaluation, fall, slump
2. Deprecate: feel and express disapproval,
3. Incentive: thing one encourages one to do (stimulus)
4. Echelon: level of authority or responsibility
5. Innovation: make changes or introduce new things
6. Intermittent: externally stopping and then starting
7. Detrimental: harmful
8. Conciliation: make less angry or more friendly
9. Orthodox: conventional or traditional, superstitious
10. Fallible: liable to error
11. Volatile: ever changing
12. Manifest: clear and obvious
13. Connotation: suggest or implied meaning of expression
14. Reciprocal: reverse or opposite
15. Agrarian: related to agriculture
16. Vacillate: undecided or dilemma
17. Expedient: fitting proper, desirable
18. Simulate: produce artificially resembling an existing one.
19. Access: to approah
20. Compensation: salary
21. Truncate: shorten by cutting
22. Adherence: stick
23. Heterogeneous: non similar things
24. Surplus: excessive
25. Assess: determine the amount or value
26. Cognizance: knowledge
27. Retrospective: review
28. Naive: innocent, rustic
29. Equivocate: tallying on both sides, lie, mislead
30. Postulate: frame a theory
31. Latent: dormant, secret
32. Fluctuation: wavering,
33. Eliminate: to reduce
34. Affinity: strong liking
35. Expedite: hasten
36. Console: to show sympathy
37. Adversary: opposition
38. Affable: lovable or approachable
39. Decomposition: rotten
40. Egregious: apart from the crowd, especially bad
41. Conglomeration: group, collection
42. Aberration: deviation
43. Augury: prediction
44. Credibility: ability to common belief, quality of being credible
45. Coincident: incidentally
46. Constituent : accompanying
47. Differential : having or showing or making use of
48. Litigation : engaging in a law suit
49. Maratorium: legally or offficiallly determined period of dealy before fulfillment of the agreement of paying of
debts.
50. Negotiate: discuss or bargain
51. Preparation: act of preparing
52. Preponderant: superiority of power or quality
53. Relevance: quality of being relevant
54. Apparatus: appliances
55. Ignorance: blindness, in experience
56. Obsession: complex enthusiasm
57. Precipitate: speed,active

TCS solved vocab questions

2012-05-22T03:21:00.001-07:00

important vocab words which is helpful in GRE preparation and job interviews:
Brazen - bold , shameless
Awry - skewed , twisted , crooked
Remiss – careless , negligent
Defection - desertion
Ensue - follow
Avid - keen , eager
Rupidiate Repudiate - reject,deny
Gauche - clumsy, vulgar
Intrinsic - essential
Gaudy – flashy , showy
Hidebound – narrow minded
Incognitent -
Intermittent – irregular,broken
Clastrophobia - fear
Contraband – illegal trade
Pagm concealed rapt
Voracious – avid,hunger,greedy
Seedy – sleazy,seamy
Omniscience – knowing all
Diatribe – attack,criticism
Felicitous – fortunate,luck
Relish – enjoy,savor
Aloofness – unfriendliness, remoteness
Ambiguity - unknown
Pattry
Baleful – threatening, malevolent
Odium – hatred, disgust
Lapidarian
Gambol - skip
High handed – dominant,imperious
Retrospection - perception
Antithe
Pagan
Genuflect – kneel,bow
coerce – force,compel
Indubitably – undoubtedly, certainly
Extraneous – irrelevant , unrelated
Corpulent – fat,pump
Transient – momentary
Spurious – false,fake
Whimsical - fancy
Braggadocio -
Chimerical
Callow – inexperience,naive
Menial – unskilled,boring
Indigenous – native,original
Ambiguity
Foil – frustrate,halt
Censure - fault, criticize
Optimum- best, most favorable
Candid- frank, open, blunt, upfront, forth-right
Cite - quote, name, mention, refer to, allude to
Effusive - demonstrative, fussy, talkative, overenthusiastic,vociferous, extroverted
Voluble - articulate, vociferous, talkative
Banal - commonplace, trivial, predictable, trite, hackneyed
Standing - rank, permanent, position, duration, status, reputation, eminence
Nascent - budding, emerging, blossoming, embryonic
Clutch - grasp, grab, hold
Generic - general, basic, common
Empirical -experimental, pragmatic, practical
Anomaly - irregularity, glitch, difference
Circuitous - roundabout, twisty, meandering, indirect, winding, tortuous
Surveillance - observation, watch, shadowing
Objective - aim, impartial, real, purpose, goal
Raucous - rough, wild, hoarse, guttering
Voracious - insatiable, avid, hungry, big, rapacious, greedy
Pedigree - rare-breed, full-blooded, lineage
Fidelity - loyalty, reliability
Augment - supplement, boost, add to, bump up
Precarious - unstable, shaky, risky, uncertain
Derogatory - disparaging, critical, insulting, offensive
Onus - responsibility, burden, obligation, duty
Analogous - similar, akin, related
Expedient - measure, convenient, device, maneuver
Compliance - fulfillment, obedience
Diffident - shy, insecure, timid
Plaintive - mournful, sad, melancholic, nostalgic, lamenting
Insinuate - imply, suggest, make-out, ingratiate yourself
Misdemeanor - wrong, sin, crime, offense
Exonerate - clear, forgive, absolve
Gregarious - outgoing, extroverted, sociable, expressive, unreserved
Benign - kind, benevolent, compassionate
Attenuate - satisfy, calm, soothe, ease
Sonorous - loud, deep, resonant, echoing
Bolster - boost, strengthen, reinforce, encourage
Heterodox - unorthodox, dissenting, contrary to accepted belief,heretical, deviating
Restiveness - impatience, restlessness, nervousness
Effigy - image, statue, model
Retrograde - retrospective, traditional, conservative, nostalgic, forward-looking (antonym)
Sacrosanct - sacred, holy, revered
Dangle - hang down, sway, droop, swing, suspend
Cryptic -mysterious, enigmatic, puzzling, hidden
Debilitate - incapacitate, weaken, hamper, encumber, hinder
Divulge - reveal, disclose
Spendthrift - wastrel, squanderer, compulsive shopper
Indigenous -native, original, local
Erroneous - mistaken, flawed, incorrect
Minion - follower, subordinate, underling, gofer
Veracity - reality, truth, sincerity.

HTML top-100 questions

2012-01-31T00:34:00.000-08:00

HTML QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1) Is it possible to set up a browser so it refuse pages that does not have a content rating meta tag?
a) Yes - many companies and parents actually do
b) No
c) Only with a cybersitter add on

2) When images are used as links they get a blue border.
a) Always
b) Never
c) Unless border is set to zero

3) A 6 digit Hex color (#FF9966) defines values of Red, Blue and Green in which order ?
a) #BBRRGG
b) #BBGGRR
c) #RRGGBB

4) When you count to 15 using hexadecimal numbers, the highest number is what ?
a) F
b) B
c) 15

5) The <small> and <big> tags are special in what way ?
a) They can be repeated
b) They work on anything
c) They are for images only

6) What does vlink mean ?
a) visited link
b) very good link
c) active link

7) Banners, buttons, dividers, clipart and other simple images usually work best as ?
a) fonts
b) gif
c) jpg

8) Which format usually works best for photos ?
a) JPG
b) HTML
c) GIF

9) <a> and </a> are the tags used for ?
a) Audio-voiced text
b) Adding links to your page
c) Aligning text

10) What does the GENERATOR meta tag tell ?
a) What type of server your page is on
b) Which program was used to produce the page
c) Who designed the page

11) What tag is used to add columns to tables ?
a) <colspan>
b) <td>
c)<tr>

12) Use<td> and </td>to add what to your tables?
a) columns
b) rows
c) steps

13) What is the REFRESH meta tag used for ?
a) Refresh your keywords
b) Allow search engines to relist your page
c) Redirect to a new domain

14) Screen colors are defined by which colors ?
a) Green, Blue, and Yellow
b) Crayola Colors
c) Red, Green and Blue

15) What tag can prevent sites with adult content from being seen on MSIEbrowsers ?
a) <meta refresh> tag
b)<meta keywords> tag
c) icra.org registered <meta http-equiv="pics-label">

16) To specify a font for your whole page add which tag ?
a) <targetfont>
b) <defaultfont>
c)<basefont>

17) Increasing the cellpadding value will what ?
a) Increase the distance between cell and content
b) Increase the space between cells
c) Increase the softness of your site

18) Which of the following is NOT true of metatags use ?
a) Which of the following is NOT true of metatags use ?
b) Do not include words that are not present on your pages
c) Use as many keywords as you can

19) To change the size of an image in HTML use what ?
a) pliers
b) height and width
c) bigger and smaller

20) Hex-colors are the only way to define colors on the web?
a) True for Internet Explorer, False for Netscape browsers
b) False, colors can also be specified with names and CSS
c) True, computer screens only understands hexadecimal values.

21) Is it a common myth that meta tags seriously improve search engine rankings ?
a) no
b) only in Nepal
c) yes

22) Choose the correct HTML tag to make a text italic
a) <italic>
b) <i>

23) Choose the correct HTML tag to make a text bold
a) <bold>
b) <b>

24) If the background image is smaller than the screen, what will happen ?
a) It will be stretched
b) It will leave a blank space at the bottom of your page
c) It will be repeated

25) HTML defines colors using hexidecimal values, while graphics programs most often use what ?
a) Names
b) Normal numbers
c) RGB Code

26) The <title> tag belongs where in your HTML ?
a) Head
b) Arm
c) Body

27) If you don’t want the frame windows to be resizeable, simply add what to the <frame> lines ?
a) save
b) dontresize
c) noresize

28)How can you make a list that lists the items with numbers?
a) <dl>
b) <ol>
c)<ul>
d)<list>

29) Most search engines give serious importance to meta tags when ranking websites in their listings ?
a) True
b) It depends on the keywords
c) False

30) Which colors consist of equal amounts of all basic colors ?
a) purple, green, and red
b) black, blue, and gray
c) white, black and gray

31) Which has higher priority, cell settings or table settings ?
a) Neither
b) Cell settings
c) Table settings

32)What does HTML stand for?
a) Hyper Text Markup Language
b) Hyperlinks and Text Markup Language
c) Home Tool Markup Language

33) What is the correct HTML for adding a background color?
a) <body background="yellow">
b)<background>yellow</background>
c) <body style="background-color:white">

34) To make the appearance of the colors more powerful on your site do which of the following ?
a) Do not use colors
b) Limit their use
c) Splash them all over

35) When is the content of a table shown ?
a) In pieces as it loads
b) Before the border loads
c) After the table is loaded

36) To add rows to your tables use which tags?
a) <td> and </td>
b)<cr> and </cr>
c) <tr> and </tr>

37) Gif and jpg are the two main types of what ?
a) animated effects
b) outlines
c) images

38) WYSIWYG stands for ?
a) What You See Is What You Get
b) When You Start Is When You Go
c) What You See Is What You Gain

39) Choose the correct HTML tag for the largest heading
a) <heading>
b)<h6>
c) <head>
d) <h1>

40) Choose the correct HTML to left-align the content inside a tablecell
a) <td valign="left">
b) <tdleft>
c) <td align="left">
d)<td leftalign>

41) To create a bulleted list use ?
a) <il>
b) <ul>
c) <ol>

42) Besides<B>, another way to make text bold is what ?
a) <strong>
b) <dark>
c) <fat>

43) Hexadecimal numbers are numbers based on the value of what ?
a) 10
b) 8
c) 16

44) Which is NOT a predefined target for links ?
a) _son
b) _parent
c) _blank

45) If you do not include a DESCRIPTION meta tag, most search engine will simply list what ?
a) Nothing
b) All text above the fold of your page
c) The first few words on the page

46) How many characters can be written with 1 Kilobyte ?
a) 1024
b) 1
c) Depends on the font used

47)To start a list at the count of 3, use which ?
a) <ol start="3">
b) <ol begin="3">
c)<ol list="5">

48) Who is making the Web standards?
a) The World Wide Web Consortium
b) Mozilla
c) Microsoft

49) Which tag can set the background color for your page?
a) <body>
b)<head>
c)<font>

50) What is the correct HTML tag for inserting a line break?
a) <lb />
b) <br />
c)<break />

51) The attribute used to choose the type of font in HTML is ?
a) Character
b) Face
c) Text-type

52) colspan=n can be added to only what tag?
a)<table>
b)<td>
c)<tr>

53) Rather than using Hspace and Vspace you can use which of the following to add spacing to your image ?
a) height and width
b) 1x1 pixel transparent image
c) align=+2

54) What is the correct HTML for creating a hyperlink?
a)<a name="http://www.qualitypointtech.com">Qualitypoint Technologies</a>
b) <a href="http://www.qualitypointtech.com">Qualitypoint Technologies</a>
c) <a>http://www.qualitypointtech.com</a>
d) <a url="http://www.qualitypointtech.com">Qualitypoint Technologies</a>

55) In the code <frameset cols="120,*"> the following would be true.
a) Top frame would be 120 pixels high
b) Left frame would be 120 inches wide
c) Left frame would be 120 pixels wide

56) Which program do you need to write HTML?
a) Any text editor
b) HTML-development suite 4
c) A graphics program

57) When making bulleted lists you have what options ?
a) disc, circle, square
b) triangle, square, circle
c) square, disc, polygon

58) A file that specifies how the screen is divided into frames is called a __________
a) frameset
b) frametable
c) tablelink

59) Which of these is not valid HTML?
a) <font face="verdana,arial">
b)<fontface="verdana">
c) <font face="verdana">

60) Which of these tags are all <table>tags?
a) <thead><body><tr>
b) <table><tr><td>
c)<table><head><tfoot>
d)<table><tr><tt>

61) The <br>tag adds what to your webpage ?
a) Line break
b) Little bubbles
c) Long breaks

62) What tag tells where a link starts ?
a) <l>
b) <start>
c) <a>

63) Settings for columns(<td> tag) have higher priority than settings for rows(<tr> tag)
a) Sometimes true, sometimes not
b) True
c) False

64) Colors in plain HTML can be specified using ?
a) Meta tags
b) Images
c) Hexadecimal Colors

65) Relative path make your hypertext links______.
a) Portable
b) Discrete
c) Uniform

66) <ol> tags will create what kind of list ?
a) Numbered List
b) Bulleted List
c) Grocery List

67) Is it possible to link within the current page ?
a) No
b) Only in framesets
c) Yes

68) Tags and text that do not show directly on the page are placed where ?
a) Body
b) Tables
c) Head

69) To create a list using lowercase letters use ?
a)<ol "a">
b) <ol letter="a">
c)<ol type="a">

70) To seperate single list items use ?
a)<li> and </li>
b)<ol> and </ol>
c) <ul> and </ul>

71) Which section is used for text and tags that are shown directly on your web page ?
a) Body
b) Metatags
c) Head

72) To set the font for a single link, where do you add the <font></font> tags ?
a)Outside the <a> and </a>
b) In the <body> tag
c) Inside the <a> and </a> tags

73) Why should you add alternative text to your images ?
a) In case the user wishes to load a different picture
b) So the user can save the image using the text as a name
c) So the users can get an idea of what the image is before it loads

74) What is used to store information usually relevant to browsers and searchengines?
a) Tabs
b) Cookies
c) Metatags

75) What tag tells the browser where the page starts and stops ?
a) <head>
b) <body>
c)<html>

76) Why should you specify a background color if you are using an image for the actual background of your page ?
a) The background color will be shown until the image loads
b) In case the image doesnt fit right
c) So the text shows up better

77) The background image will scroll when the user scrolls down the page, unless you add which property to the <body> tag?
a) bgproperties="holdstill"
b) bgproperties="fixed"
c) bgproperties="stationary"

78) Imagelinks can show a text label if you add which property?
a) alternative
b) str
c) alt

79) Adding a border to your image helps the visitor to recognize it as what ?
a) A really great picture
b) A frame
c) A Link

80) Which of the following is NOT a valid pair for browser safe colors ?
a) AA
b) CC
c) 00

81)To start a numbered list with regular numerals use ?
a) <ol type="a">
b) <ol type="1">
c) <ol type="I">

82) Defining clickable sub-areas on an image is called?
a) imagelinking
b) imagemapping
c) multiple linking

83) How can you open a link in a new browser window?
a) <a href="url" new>
b) <a href="url" target="_blank">
c) <a href="url" target="new

84) What tag adds a paragraph break after the text ?
a) <PARAGRAPH>
b) <P>
c) <BR>

85) Which property will open a page in a new window?
a) target="_self"
b) target="_blank"
c) target="_top"

86) The <i> tag makes text... ?
a) Bold
b) Inline
c) Italic

87) Which two meta tags have special relevance for search engines ?
a) Description and Keywords
b) Description and Name
c) Cookies and Keywords

88) To start a list using circles use which of these tags ?
a) <ul type="circle">
b)<ul "circle">
c) <ul type="round">

89) All normal webpages consist of what two parts ?
a) Head and body
b) Top and bottom
c) Body and frameset

90) Use what to prevent confusion on numbers higher than 9 with hexadecimal colors ?
a) #
b) !
c) %

91) Why do designers often use slight variations of black and white as background colors ?
a) Personal choice
b) Black and white are ugly colors
c) To make the page more readable

92) Which will let text wrap down the side of the image?
a) <img src="myImage.gif" align="wrap">
b)<img src="myImage.gif" align="right">
c) <img src="myImage.gif" wrap="on">

93) There are how many "browser safe colors" ?
a) 16 Million
b) 216
c) 256

94) How do you add a link which will allow the visitor to send an email from your page ?
a) Add an image of an envelope
b)Add <a href="sendmailtoyouraddress">
c) Add <a href="mailto:youraddress">

95) Which tag is used to insert images into your web page ?
a) pic
b) scr
c) img

96) One should never combine the "start" and "type" option ?
a) True
b) Sometimes True, sometimes False
c) False

97) What is the most important tool for adding colors to certain areas of the page rather than the entire background ?
a) Fonts
b) Tables
c) Images

98) All HTML tags are enclosed in what ?
a) <>
b) ? and !
c) # and #

99) Which of the following will NOT be found in the <head> section ?
a) Metatags
b) Title
c) Table

100) Which property tells how many rows a cell should span ?
a) colspan=n
b) Both rowspan=n and colspan=n
c) rowspan=n

Answers
(1) a (2) c (3) c (4) a (5) a (6) a (7) b (8) a (9) b (10) b
(11) b (12) a (13) c (14) c (15) c (16) c (17) a (18) c (19) b (20) b
(21) c (22) b (23) b (24) c (25) c (26) a (27) c (28) b (29) c (30) c
(31) b (32) a (33) c (34) b (35) c (36) c (37) c (38) a (39) d (40) c
(41) b (42) a (43) c (44) a (45) c (46) a (47) a (48) a (49) a (50) b
(51) b (52) b (53) b (54) b (55) c (56) a (57) a (58) a (59) b (60) b
(61) a (62) c (63) b (64) c (65) a (66) a (67) c (68) c (69) c (70) a
(71) a (72) c (73) c (74) c (75) c (76) a (77) b (78) c (79) c (80) a
(81) b (82) b (83) b (84) b (85) b (86) c (87) a (88) a (89) a (90) a
(91) c (92) b (93) c (94) c (95) c (96) c (97) b (98) a (99) c (100) c

Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

2012-01-18T09:08:00.000-08:00

Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you’ve set it up.

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2012-01-18T09:04:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-17T10:04:00.000-08:00

You know you should use cascading style sheets (CSS) to simplify your web pages, but how do you use CSS? Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a carefully organized, well-written tutorial that teaches you not only how to use cascading style sheets, but also how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS,

In 24 straightforward one-hour long lessons, you learn by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to your own site. The tutorials have been updated for this second edition to cover browsers that have become more widely used since the release of the first edition. It also has been updated to cover styling of forms, troubleshooting CSS, and other important new developments.

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Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours

2012-01-17T09:48:00.000-08:00

Sams Teach YourselfASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build complete, professional-quality web solutions with ASP.NET 4 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the entire process, from site design through data collection, user management through debugging and deployment. Scott Mitchell, editor of top ASP.NET resource site 4GuysFromRolla.com, shows how to use the newest ASP.NET 4 enhancements and make the most of free tools like ASP.NET Ajax and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong, practical foundation for success!

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Web Design E-books: Ajax on Rails

2012-01-17T09:43:00.000-08:00

Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches intermediate to advanced web developers how to use both Ajax and Rails to quickly build high-performance, scalable applications without being overwhelmed with thousands of lines of JavaScript code. More than just recipes, you also get a thorough, low-level understanding of what’s happening under the hood.

Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches intermediate to advanced web developers how to use both Ajax and Rails to quickly build high-performance, scalable applications without being overwhelmed with thousands of lines of JavaScript code. More than just recipes, you also get a thorough, low-level understanding of what’s happening under the hood.

Ajax on Rails includes three fully worked out Rails/Ajax applications, and quick reference sections for Prototype and script.aculo.us.Testing lessons show you how to eliminate cross-browser JavaScript errors and DOM debugging nightmares using a combination of Firebug, and Venkman.Advanced material explains the most current design practices for Ajax usability. You’ll learn to avoid user experience mistakes with proven design patterns.
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2012-01-16T02:08:00.000-08:00

Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS teaches you how to write Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. It follows standards-based principles, but also teachesreaders ways around problems they are likely to face using (X)HTML.

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2012-01-16T01:20:00.000-08:00

Assuming a basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL, this book will help you understand how the heart of AJAX beats and how the constituent technologies work together. After teaching the foundations, the book will walk you through numerous real-world case studies covering tasks youâ€™ll be likely to need for your own applications:

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2012-01-15T09:08:00.000-08:00

Deploy Your WordPress Blog to the Cloud

For the last decade, hosting a large scale web application has been a daunting task, reserved only for experts. Not anymore; when Amazon opened its server architecture, everything changed. Computer hardware moved to the cloud, and became available to any and all developers. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress in the cloud.

Introduction

Most blogs and small business web sites are hosted on shared hosting services, where you pay a fixed monthly fee in exchange for a predefined set of features and installed software. Most of the time, it’s a perfectly valid option, but running your blog in Amazon’s cloud comes with benefits that make it an option worth considering:

Easy to upgrade. Creating a new server machine in Amazon’s cloud can be accomplished in a matter of minutes. So by using the service, you are always prepared to handle instant jumps in traffic. If a post jumps to the front page of Digg or Reddit, you can add more servers and balance the load. accordingly.
Cost-efficient power for large scale services. If your site attracts a lot of users, and eventually outgrows the limits of your regular hosting, Amazon Web Services gives you free hands in designing a server architecture that matches your needs, in a cost-efficient way, without needing to hire a complete network operations team to do the setup for you! This is how many of the most popular Facebook developers have built their servers.
Total control over the setup: Though this point might not be too important when running WordPress, if you want to get adventurous and build your next project using something more exotic than a combination of PHP and MySQL, you don’t have to ask your web hosting company. You install the software you wish, just like you would on a server of your own.

Whether or not hosting your WordPress site on Amazon is the right choice depends on the traffic your blog receives, as well as how much you value the opportunity to configure your server exactly to your needs.

If you’re still curious, read on and give it a shot. You will be amazed at how quickly you can get a server up and running!

Step 1 - Create an Amazon Web Services Account

Before you can start using Amazon’s cloud for your web hosting needs, you need to create an account with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Point your browser to aws.amazon.com and click on the “Sign Up Now” button.

If you’ve used Amazon.com before, you can use your same e-mail and password to login to AWS. You can also create a new account by choosing “I am a new user.”

At this stage, you will need to enter your contact information and credit card number so that Amazon can bill you for any services you use. Creating an account is free, though everything else will cost you money.

The pricing model is rather simple — you pay for every hour your server is running — but because of the variety of options, calculating the actual price can get quite a bit more complex than that. When running your own site at Amazon, it’s best to be careful and double check your price calculations before leaving the servers running unattended so you don’t get any surprises at the end of the month.

Building our WordPress setup shouldn’t last but an hour, and we will stop everything when we’re finished, so the price for completing the tutorial will be close to zero.

Step 2 - Launch Your First Server Machine

Our server setup will consist of two parts:

Application server hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), running Apache and PHP, with WordPress installed on it.
MySQL database hosted on Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS).

Another cheaper, but more difficult, option would be to manually install the MySQL server on the same machine with Apache and PHP. In this tutorial, I decided to go with the Relational Database Service because of its ease of use, as well as the fact that, this way, Amazon will take care of backups and maintenance for the database, and you won’t have to worry about that level of additional security.

Let’s start by creating our first application server instance.

Click on the EC2 tab in the AWS Management Console. As this is your first time using the EC2 service, you will need to separately sign up for it. Click on the “Sign Up For Amazon EC2″ button:

As a special step, Amazon will verify your identity by placing a call to your phone. The whole process is automated: you type a code from the web page into your phone and, once the system has verified that the codes match, you will be redirected to the next page.

When you are finished with the sign up process, return to the Management Console and the EC2 tab. You will see a page that looks like this. Click on the “Launch Instance” button.

A popup with a list of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) opens.

AMIs are snapshots of running computers.

Most consist of an operating system and a few utilities, but you can create AMIs with as much complexity as you wish — even containing your full application, ready to be started on a virtual machine with a click of a button.

We will pick the most basic option: “Basic 32-bit Amazon Linux AMI 1.0.” Click on “Select” next to the AMI and you are ready to go.

After selecting the AMI, our next step is to decide what kind of hardware we will use to run it. Depending on whether you picked a 32-bit or a 64-bit AMI, you will see a different list, the 32-bit AMIs offering the cheaper options.

For testing, we don’t need much memory or processing power, so we will start with a Micro instance. Select the instance type and click “Continue.”

In the next screen, the defaults do just fine. Click “Continue.”

When you have many machines with different roles, it’s easy to get lost with the machines and end up spending a lot of time searching for the right machine. Naming the machines helps a lot. In our case, naming is not too important, as we will run only one EC2 instance, but let’s give it a name anyhow. Enter your desired name and click “Continue.”

Next, you will be asked to create a key pair file for securely connecting to the machine. The key replaces a password when connecting to the machine with SSH. Name your key pair file, and click on “Create & Download your Key Pair.” Copy the key pair file to a safe location (A good place, if you are on a Unix system such as Mac OSX or Linux, is ~/.ssh). After copying the file, change its permissions to 400:

chmod 400 wordpress_demo.pem   

If you are using Windows, you probably use PuTTY for SSH. PuTTY uses its own key format (ppk), so you will need to convert the key to that format by using the Puttygen tool available at the PuTTY download page.

After you’ve created the key pair, you will still be asked to configure the firewall for your new machine. By default, no one is allowed to connect to the machine — every port is closed. Let’s open ports 22 (SSH) and80 (HTTP), so we can configure the machine over SSH and access the blog from a browser. Select the type of connection from the drop down list at the bottom of the popup and click on “Add Rule.” When you are done with the setup, click “Continue.”

Review the configuration, and, if everything appears to be correct, click “Launch.”

Now the machine is launching! Close the popup to return to the dashboard. At first, you’ll notice that the instance’s status is set to “pending,” and within a couple of minutes it switches to “running.” This means the server is up and running — you can start using it.

When the machine is running, it can be accessed through the ports you defined in the firewall configuration. Let’s use SSH to connect to the machine and finish its setup by installing Apache, PHP, the MySQL extension to PHP, and finally WordPress.

Step 3 - Install Required Server Software

Right click on the name of the machine, and select “Connect” from the drop down list. A popup with an SSH command will open.

Highlight the command, and copy it to a console if you are using a Mac or a Unix machine. The command will be similar to the following:

ssh -i wordpress_demo.pem root@ec2-....compute-1.amazonaws.com   

If you saved your pem key to ~/.ssh, update the path in the command. Also, you’ll need to change rootinto ec2-user — Amazon hasn’t yet updated the command to match its new AMI setups that don’t allow connecting with the root user.

If you are on Windows, or prefer to use a more graphical SSH application, simply copy the name of the machine and open it in your SSH application of choice. Remember to use the user name ec2-user and the related key pair file (wordpress_demo.pem).

Once logged in, you can use the virtual machine just as you would use any Linux machine.

To install software, we will use an easy to use installer called Yum. First, to install the Apache web server, type the following command:

sudo yum install httpd   

The installer asks you to confirm the package to install and possibly some other steps as well. Reply with “Y” to every question, and, in no time at all, you will have Apache installed.

Next up, PHP:

sudo yum install php   

And the same for the MySQL extensions:

sudo yum install php-mysql   

That’s it: the setup is done and we are ready to test Apache. Start it with this command (you can later replace “start” with “stop” or “restart” depending on what you want the web server to do):

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start   

The web server is up, and you can test it by copying the URL of the machine to your browser:

Step 4 - Create the Database Machine

Before installing WordPress, we still need a database. Setting up a database using RDS is as easy as entering some values to a couple of settings screens and pressing a few buttons, so let’s get started.

In your AWS console, switch to the RDS tab. As you have never used the service before, you will be asked to enable it. This time, the process is much faster and simpler than when you enabled EC2. Click on “Sign Up For Amazon RDS” to get started.

Follow the process through and, when you are finished, head back to the RDS tab in the AWS console. The screen you will see looks a lot like the EC2 console we used in the previous step. Click “Launch DB Instance.”

In the popup that opens, you can choose the properties for the database server to start, such as the server instance and storage space to allocate. Let’s pick the smallest values as they are more than enough for our simple test.

Pick a name for you database server and the root user on it. I used “wordpress-db” as the database server name and “root” / “rootpass” as master login. Not the most secure of options, mind you, but this machine is not intended to last for long, so it’s okay in this instance.

After setting up the database server information, you will be asked to define a default database to be created on the server. We will call it “wordpress” to follow the WordPress conventions. The rest of the settings on this screen can be left untouched.

On the next screen, you can define settings for database backups. For now, leave the values to their defaults and click “Continue.”

After verifying the settings, click “Launch DB Instance.”

Creating a database instance takes quite a bit longer than creating the EC2 instance, but after about five minutes of waiting, you should see the database instance as “available” on the instances tab.

Click on the instance to see more data about it, then copy the “endpoint” value. This is the URL of the database server that we will use in the WordPress setup.

There is one more step before we can move on to installing WordPress: we need to configure the firewall for this database so that the application server can access it.

Still on the RDS tab in the AWS console, click on “DB Security Groups.” You will see that there are no authorizations yet:

To give our application server access to the database, we need to authorize its security group to this database security group. Select “EC2 Instance” from the drop down list below “No Authorizations” and enter the name of the security group (“wordpress_app_server“) and your Amazon Account ID to the two text fields that appear next to the drop down list.

The account ID is hidden quite deep in the AWS settings: you’ll find it by first clicking the “Account” link at the top of the page, and then the “Security Credentials” link on the page that opens.

After you’ve entered the required information and clicked “Add,” you will see the security group as authorized. We are ready to install WordPress.

Step 5 - Install WordPress

If you are not connected to the application server anymore, open an SSH connection to it again. We’ll start by downloading WordPress on the machine. By default, Apache is configured to look for HTML files from/var/www/html/, so let’s download WordPress to that directory.

view plaincopy to clipboardprint?
cd /var/www/html   

To make things easier in the future, we will change ec2-user to be the owner of that directory:

sudo chown ec2-user .   

You can download WordPress to your own computer and upload it from there using SCP, but I find it easier to download it directly to the Amazon machine using wget:

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wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip   

This way, the WordPress package goes straight to its final location and all you need to do is to unzip it:

unzip latest.zip   

We are about ready to start configuring the blog. As our last step in the command line, change permissions of the wordpress directory that was just created so that the installation script can create the wp-config.php file:

chmod o+w wordpress   

Now, open the WordPress URL in your browser (The URL of the EC2 instance followed by /wordpress). Click on “Create a Configuration File” and then on the next page “Let’s go!”

You will end up on a page for entering the database settings. Enter the database name, user name and password, and the URL of the RDS instance. Then click “Submit.”

You are almost set. Configure the rest of the blog details to finish the installation and enjoy your newly created blog.

You have successfully installed WordPress in the cloud!

Step 6 Stop Everything

As I mentioned at the beginning of this tutorial, AWS billing is based on the hours of usage, so to make sure you are not billed for time that you are not really using, make sure to stop everything once you are done testing.

First, stop the EC2 instance by selecting it from the admin, right clicking on it and choosing “Stop.” If you later decide to start the machine again, all you need is to click on “Start” in the same drop down list and the machine will resume from where you left it.

Stopping the database is just as easy, with the exception that you can’t resume the database again. That’s not so nice, but luckily you have the choice to save a snapshot of the data while stopping the database. You can later use this data to recreate the database setup whenever you need it again.

On the RDS tab, right click on your database instance and select “Delete.”

Verify that everything is stopped and log out of the AWS console. Your blog is gone, just as fast as it started.

Thanks for reading!

Password strength verification using jQuery

2012-01-13T08:16:00.000-08:00

Password strength verification with jQuery

The jQuery Password Strength Meter is a great free plugin that provides realtime client side evaluation of your password, providing visual indication regarding the strength of the password. This article covers setting up, configuring and customization of the plugin.

Many sites that require login credentials enforce a security setting often referred to as password complexity requirements. These requirements ensure that user passwords are sufficiently strong and cannot be easily broken.

What constitutes a strong password? Well, that depends on who you ask. However, traditional factors that contribute to a password’s strength include it’s length, complexity, and unpredictability. To ensure password strength, many sites require user passwords to be alphanumeric in addition to being a certain length.

In this tutorial, we’ll construct a form that gives the user live feedback as to whether their password has sufficiently met the complexity requirements we will establish.

Before we begin, let’s get take a sneak peak at what our final product will look like (click for a demo):

Please note: The purpose of this tutorial is to show how a simple script can be written using javascript and jQuery to enforce password complexity requirements. You’ll be able to add additional requirements to the script if needed; however, note that form validation (server- and client-side), form submission, and other topics are not covered in this example.

Step 1: Starter HTML

First we want to get our basic HTML starter code. We’ll use the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
 <title>Password Verification</title>
</head>
<body>
 <div id="container">
  <-- Form HTML Here -->
 </div>
</body>
</html>

Step 2: Form HTML

Now let’s add the markup that will be used for our form. We will wrap our form elements in list items for better structure and organization.

<h1>Password Verification</h1>
<form>
 <ul>
  <li>
   <label for="username">Username:</label>
   <span><input id="username" name="username" type="text" /></span>
  </li>
  <li>
   <label for="pswd">Password:</label>
   <span><input id="pswd" type="password" name="pswd" /></span>
  </li>
  <li>
   <button type="submit">Register</button>
  </li>
 </ul>
</form>

Here’s an explanation of the code we used:

span elements – these will be used for visual styling of our input elements (as you’ll see later on in the CSS)
type="password" – this is an HTML5 attribute for form elements. In supported browsers, the characters in this field will be replaced by black dots thus hiding the actual password on-screen.

Here’s what we’ve got so far:

Step 3: Password information box HTML

Now let’s add the HTML that will inform the user which complexity requirements are being met. This box will be hidden by default and only appear when the “password” field is in focus.

<div id="pswd_info">
 <h4>Password must meet the following requirements:</h4>
 <ul>
  <li id="letter" class="invalid">At least <strong>one letter</strong></li>
  <li id="capital" class="invalid">At least <strong>one capital letter</strong></li>
  <li id="number" class="invalid">At least <strong>one number</strong></li>
  <li id="length" class="invalid">Be at least <strong>8 characters</strong></li>
 </ul>
</div>

Each list item is given a specific ID attribute. These IDs will be used to target each complexity requirement and show the user if the requirement has been met or not. Also, each element will be styled as “valid” if the user’s password has met the requirement or invalid if they haven’t met it (if the input field is blank, none of the requirements have been met; hence the default class of “invalid”).

Here’s what we have so far:

Step 4: Create background style

We are going to give our page elements some basic styling. Here’s an overview of what we’ll do in our CSS:

Add a background color – I used #EDF1F4
Add a background image with texture (created in Photoshop)
Setup our font stack – We’ll use a nice sans-serif font stack
Remove/modify some browser defaults

body {
 background:#edf1f4 url(bg.jpg);
 font-family: "Segoe UI", Candara, "Bitstream Vera Sans", "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, "Verdana Ref", sans serif;
 font-size:16px;
 color:#444;
}
ul, li {
 margin:0;
 padding:0;
 list-style-type:none;
}

Step 5: Create background style

Now we will style our main container and center it in the page. We’ll also applying some styles to our H1 tag.

#container {
 width:400px;
 padding:0px;
 background:#fefefe;
 margin:0 auto;
 border:1px solid #c4cddb;
 border-top-color:#d3dbde;
 border-bottom-color:#bfc9dc;
 box-shadow:0 1px 1px #ccc;
 border-radius:5px;
 position:relative;
}
h1 {
 margin:0;
 padding:10px 0;
 font-size:24px;
 text-align:center;
 background:#eff4f7;
 border-bottom:1px solid #dde0e7;
 box-shadow:0 -1px 0 #fff inset;
 border-radius:5px 5px 0 0; /* otherwise we get some uncut corners with container div */
 text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #fff;
}

It’s important to note that we have to give our H1 tag a border radius on its top two corners. If we don’t, the H1′s background color will overlap the rounded corners of it’s parent element (#container) and it will look like this:

Adding border-radius to the H1 element assures our top corners will remain rounded. Here’s what we have so far:

Step 6: CSS styles for the form

Now let’s style our various form elements starting with the list elements inside the form:

form ul li {
 margin:10px 20px;

}
form ul li:last-child {
 text-align:center;
 margin:20px 0 25px 0;

We used the :last-child selector to select the last item in the list (button) and give it some extra spacing. (Note this selector is not supported in some legacy browsers). Next, let’s style our input elements:

input {
 padding:10px 10px;
 border:1px solid #d5d9da;
 border-radius:5px;
 box-shadow: 0 0 5px #e8e9eb inset;
 width:328px; /* 400 (#container) - 40 (li margins) -  10 (span paddings) - 20 (input paddings) - 2 (input borders) */
 font-size:1em;
 outline:0; /* remove webkit focus styles */
}
input:focus {
 border:1px solid #b9d4e9;
 border-top-color:#b6d5ea;
 border-bottom-color:#b8d4ea;
 box-shadow:0 0 5px #b9d4e9;

Notice that we calculated our input element’s width by taking the #container width (400px) and subtracting the margins, paddings, and borders applied to the input’s parent elements. We also used the outline property to remove the default WebKit focus styles. Lastly let’s apply some styles to our other form elements:

label {
 color:#555;
}
#container span {
 background:#f6f6f6;
 padding:3px 5px;
 display:block;
 border-radius:5px;
 margin-top:5px;
}

Now we have something that looks like this:

Step 7: Button Styles

Now we are going to style our button element. We’ll use some CSS3 styles so users with newer browsers get a better experience. If you’re looking for a great resource when creating background gradients in CSS3, check out Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator.

button {
 background: #57a9eb; /* Old browsers */
 background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #57a9eb 0%, #3a76c4 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
 background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#57a9eb), color-stop(100%,#3a76c4)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
 background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #57a9eb 0%,#3a76c4 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
 background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #57a9eb 0%,#3a76c4 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
 background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #57a9eb 0%,#3a76c4 100%); /* IE10+ */
 background: linear-gradient(top, #57a9eb 0%,#3a76c4 100%); /* W3C */
 filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#57a9eb', endColorstr='#3a76c4',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
 border:1px solid #326fa9;
 border-top-color:#3e80b1;
 border-bottom-color:#1e549d;
 color:#fff;
 text-shadow:0 1px 0 #1e3c5e;
 font-size:.875em;
 padding:8px 15px;
 width:150px;
 border-radius:20px;
 box-shadow:0 1px 0 #bbb, 0 1px 0 #9cccf3 inset;
}
button:active {
 background: #3a76c4; /* Old browsers */
 background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #3a76c4 0%, #57a9eb 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
 background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#3a76c4), color-stop(100%,#57a9eb)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
 background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #3a76c4 0%,#57a9eb 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
 background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #3a76c4 0%,#57a9eb 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
 background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #3a76c4 0%,#57a9eb 100%); /* IE10+ */
 background: linear-gradient(top, #3a76c4 0%,#57a9eb 100%); /* W3C */
 filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#3a76c4', endColorstr='#57a9eb',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
 box-shadow:none;
 text-shadow:0 -1px 0 #1e3c5e;
}

Step 8: Password Information Box

Now we are going to style the box that informs users if they are meeting the password requirements. First, we will style the containing element (#pswd_info).

#pswd_info {
 position:absolute;
 bottom:-75px;
 bottom: -115px\9; /* IE Specific */
 right:55px;
 width:250px;
 padding:15px;
 background:#fefefe;
 font-size:.875em;
 border-radius:5px;
 box-shadow:0 1px 3px #ccc;
 border:1px solid #ddd;
}

Now let’s add some style to the H4 element:

#pswd_info h4 {
 margin:0 0 10px 0;
 padding:0;
 font-weight:normal;
}

Lastly, we are going to use the CSS ::before selector to add an “up-pointing triangle”. This is a geometric character which can be inserted using it’s corresponding UNICODE entity. Normally in HTML you would use the character’s HTML entity (▲). However, because we are adding it in CSS, we must use the UNICODE value (25B2) preceded by a backslash.

#pswd_info::before {
 content: "\25B2";
 position:absolute;
 top:-12px;
 left:45%;
 font-size:14px;
 line-height:14px;
 color:#ddd;
 text-shadow:none;
 display:block;
}

Now we have this:

Step 9: Valid and invalid states

Let’s add some styles to our requirements. If the requirement has been met, we’ll give it a class of “valid”. If it hasn’t been met, it will get a class of “invalid” (default class).

.invalid {
 background:url(../images/invalid.png) no-repeat 0 50%;
 padding-left:22px;
 line-height:24px;
 color:#ec3f41;
}
.valid {
 background:url(../images/valid.png) no-repeat 0 50%;
 padding-left:22px;
 line-height:24px;
 color:#3a7d34;
}

Because we haven’t included the JavaScript functionality that will dynamically change the “valid” and “invalid” classes, all requirements will appear as invalid (we’ll change this later). Here’s what we have so far:

Hide the Box

Now that we have everything styled exactly how we want it, we’re going to hide the password information box. We’ll toggle it’s visibility to the user using JavaScript. So let’s add the following rule:

#pswd_info {
 display:none;
}

Step 10: Grasping the scope

Here is what we want to accomplish with our script:

When the password field is selected (:focus), show it
Every time the user types a new character in the password field, check and see if that character fulfills one of the following password complexity rules:
- At least one letter
- At least one capital letter
- At least one number
- At least eight characters in length
If it does, mark that rule as “valid”
If it doesn’t, mark that rule as “invalid”
When the password field is not selected (‘:blur’), hide it

Step 11: Getting jQuery setup

First, we need to add jQuery to our page. We’ll use the hosted version. We also want to link to our “script.js” file, which is where we will write the code needed for our password verification test. So, add the following to your <head> tag:

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js"></script>
<script src="script.js"></script>

In our “script.js” file, we’ll start with some basic jQuery starter code for our script:

$(document).ready(function() {

 //code here

});

Step 12: Setting up the event triggers

Essentially we have three events we will be listening for:

“Keyup” on the password input field
(triggers whenever the user pushes a key on the keyboard)
“Focus” on the password input field
(triggers whenever the password field is selected by the user)
“Blur” on the password input field
(triggers whenever the password field is unselected)

As you can see, all the events we are listening for are on the password input field. In this example, we will select all input fields where the type is equal to password. jQuery also allows us to “chain” these events together, rather than typing out each one. So, for example, rather than typing this:

$('input[type=password]').keyup(function() {
 // keyup event code here
});
$('input[type=password]').focus(function() {
 // focus code here
});
$('input[type=password]').blur(function() {
 // blur code here
});

We can chain all the events together and type the following:

$('input[type=password]').keyup(function() {
 // keyup code here
}).focus(function() {
 // focus code here
}).blur(function() {
 // blur code here
});

So, with that knowledge, let’s create our code that will show or hide our password information box depending on whether the password input field is selected by the user or not:

$('input[type=password]').keyup(function() {
 // keyup code here
}).focus(function() {
 $('#pswd_info').show();
}).blur(function() {
 $('#pswd_info').hide();
});

You will now notice that by clicking in the password input field, the password information box will be visible. Likewise, by clicking outside the password input field, the password information box will be hidden.

Step 13: Checking the complexity rules

All we need to do now is have the script check the value in the password field every time a new character is entered (using the ‘keyup’ event). So, inside the $('input[type=password]').keyup function we’ll add the following code:

// set password variable
var pswd = $(this).val();

This sets up a variable named ‘pswd’ that stores the current password field value every time there is a keyup event. We will use this value in checking each of our complexity rules.

Validating the length

Now, inside the same keyup function, let’s add the following:

//validate the length
if ( pswd.length < 8 ) {
 $('#length').removeClass('valid').addClass('invalid');
} else {
 $('#length').removeClass('invalid').addClass('valid');
}

This checks to see if the length of the current password value is smaller than 8 characters. If it is, it’s get an ‘invalid’ class. If it’s bigger than 8 characters, it gets a ‘valid’ class.

Validating with regular expressions

As you saw above, we simply have an if/else statement that tests to see if the complexity requirement has been met. If the complexity requirement is met, we give it’s ID in the password box a class of “valid”. If it is not met, it gets a class of “invalid”.

The rest of our requirements will require we use regular expressions to test the complexity rules. So, let’s add the following:

//validate letter
if ( pswd.match(/[A-z]/) ) {
 $('#letter').removeClass('invalid').addClass('valid');
} else {
 $('#letter').removeClass('valid').addClass('invalid');
}

//validate capital letter
if ( pswd.match(/[A-Z]/) ) {
 $('#capital').removeClass('invalid').addClass('valid');
} else {
 $('#capital').removeClass('valid').addClass('invalid');
}

//validate number
if ( pswd.match(/\d/) ) {
 $('#number').removeClass('invalid').addClass('valid');
} else {
 $('#number').removeClass('valid').addClass('invalid');
}

Here is an explanation of the three if/else statements we used:

[A-z]: This expressions checks to make sure at least one letter of A through Z (uppercase) or a through z (lowercase) has been entered
[A-Z]: This expressions checks to make sure at least one uppercase letter has been entered
\d: This will check for any digits 0 through 9

Step 14: Test it out

That’s all there is to it! You can add more to this if you want. You could add more complexity rules, you could add a submission method, or you could add whatever else you deem necessary.

8 amazing jQuery slidshow and images

2012-01-13T07:51:00.000-08:00

This is The Collection of Amazing jQuery slideshow.

This is The Collection of diffrent web design site.....

Coin Slider

Coin Slider is a jQuery slider with unique transition effects. It’s also compatible with iOS and Android.

Galleria

Galleria’s purpose is to make it easier for anyone to create professional-looking image galleries for the web and mobile devices. You can also build your own theme using Galleria’s API.

Nivo Slider

The Nivo Slider includes 16 unique transition effects and tons of settings you can tweak to meet your needs. The markup is all clean and valid, and the packed version is only 15kb. The Slider also includes support for HTML captions, keyboard navigation, and linking images, and comes with three themes.

Sliding Image Gallery

The Sliding Image Gallery plugin was inspired by the iTunes album viewer. There are a few variations available, and full instructions for implementation are provided.

ShineTime

ShineTime is a jQuery and CSS3 gallery with animated shine effects on both the thumbnails and photo captions. It uses thumbnails for navigation.

Micro Image Gallery

The Micro Image Gallery is a tiny image gallery plugin, designed for use when space is limited. There are three sizes available, 102 pixels, 162 pixels, and 222 pixels, and galleries can default to show thumbnails or a single image when loaded.

prettyPhoto

prettyPhoto is a lightbox clone, with support for images, video, Flash, iframes, and ajax. It can be used for single images or galleries, and galleries can have mixed content.

Spacegallery

Spacegallery has a 3D interface that loads new images when you click on the existing one. It has a configurable border, animation duration, perspective height, and more.

JSP Tutorials

2012-01-10T23:18:00.000-08:00

JSP Tutorials

JSP Tutorials and examples, you will find many examples with working source code.

Introduction to JSP
Java Server Pages or JSP for short is Sun's solution for developing dynamic web sites. JSP provide excellent server side scripting support for creating database driven web applications.
Introduction to the JSP tags
In this lesson we will learn about the various tags available in JSP with suitable examples. In JSP tags can be devided into 4 different types.
Detail introduction to JSP Declaratives
JSP Declaratives begins with <%! and ends %> with .We can embed any amount of java code in the JSP Declaratives. Variables and functions defined in the declaratives are class level and can be used anywhere in the JSP page.
JSP Actions
In this section we will explain you about JSP Action tags and in the next section we will explain the uses of these tags with examples.
Detail Introduction to JSP Scriptlets and JSP Expressions with examples
JSP Scriptlets begins with <% and ends %> .We can embed any amount of java code in the JSP Scriptlets. JSP Engine places these code in the _jspService() method.
Writing the Date JSP
Till now you learned about the JSP syntax, now I will show you how to create a simple dynamic JSP page that prints the current date and time.
Retrieving the data posted to a JSP file from HTML file
Now I will show you how to retrieve the data posted from a HTML file in a JSP page. Consider an html page that prompts the user to enter his/her name, let's call it getname.htm.
Accessing database from JSP
In This article I am going to discuss the connectivity from MYSQL database with JSP.we take a example of Books database. This database contains a table named books_details.
Implement JavaScript with JSPIn this section we are going to implement insert data, delete data, and update data using with JDBC database and also using of JavaScript.
JSP Cookies Example
This tutorial shows how to handle cookies in JSP pages. In this tutorial you will learn how to add cookies through jsp page and then show the value of the same cookie in another JSP page.

JSP Cookies Example

2012-01-10T23:17:00.000-08:00

JSP Cookies Example

This tutorial shows how to handle cookies in JSP pages. In this tutorial you will learn how to add cookies through jsp page and then show the value of the same cookie in another JSP page.

Let's understand the cookies. Cookies are short pieces of data sent by web servers to the client browser. The cookies are saved to clients hard disk in the form of small text file. Cookies helps the web servers to identify web users, by this way server tracks the user. Cookies pay very important role in the session tracking.

Cookie Class

In JSP cookie are the object of the class javax.servlet.http.Cookie. This class is used to creates a cookie, a small amount of information sent by a servlet to a Web browser, saved by the browser, and later sent back to the server. A cookie's value can uniquely identify a client, so cookies are commonly used for session management. A cookie has a name, a single value, and optional attributes such as a comment, path and domain qualifiers, a maximum age, and a version number.

The getCookies() method of the request object returns an array of Cookie objects. Cookies can be constructed using the following code:

Cookie(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value)

Cookie objects have the following methods.

Method	Description
getComment()	Returns the comment describing the purpose of this cookie, or null if no such comment has been defined.
getMaxAge()	Returns the maximum specified age of the cookie.
getName()	Returns the name of the cookie.
getPath()	Returns the prefix of all URLs for which this cookie is targeted.
getValue()	Returns the value of the cookie.
setComment(String)	If a web browser presents this cookie to a user, the cookie's purpose will be described using this comment.
setMaxAge(int)	Sets the maximum age of the cookie. The cookie will expire after that many seconds have passed. Negative values indicate the default behavior: the cookie is not stored persistently, and will be deleted when the user web browser exits. A zero value causes the cookie to be deleted
setPath(String)	This cookie should be presented only with requests beginning with this URL.
setValue(String)	Sets the value of the cookie. Values with various special characters (white space, brackets and parentheses, the equals sign, comma, double quote, slashes, question marks, the "at" sign, colon, and semicolon) should be avoided. Empty values may not behave the same way on all browsers.

Example Using Cookies

No we will write code in JSP file to set and then display the cookie.

Create Form

Here is the code of the form (cookieform.jsp) which prompts the user to enter his/her name.

<%@ page language="java" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Cookie Input Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="setcookie.jsp">
<p><b>Enter Your Name: </b><input type="text" name="username"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</form>

</body>

Above form prompts the user to enter the user name. User input are posted to the setcookie.jsp file, which sets the cookie. Here is the code of setcookie.jsp file:

<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*"%>
<%
String username=request.getParameter("username");
if(username==null) username="";

Date now = new Date();
String timestamp = now.toString();
Cookie cookie = new Cookie ("username",username);
cookie.setMaxAge(365 * 24 * 60 * 60);
response.addCookie(cookie);

%>

<html>
<head>
<title>Cookie Saved</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="showcookievalue.jsp">Next Page to view the cookie value</a><p>

</body>

Above code sets the cookie and then displays a link to view cookie page. Here is the code of display cookie page (showcookievalue.jsp):

<%@ page language="java" %>
<%
String cookieName = "username";
Cookie cookies [] = request.getCookies ();
Cookie myCookie = null;
if (cookies != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++)
{
if (cookies [i].getName().equals (cookieName))
{
myCookie = cookies[i];
break;
}
}
}
%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Show Saved Cookie</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
if (myCookie == null) {
%>
No Cookie found with the name <%=cookieName%>
<%
} else {
%>
<p>Welcome: <%=myCookie.getValue()%>.
<%
}
%>
</body>

When user navigates to the above the page, cookie value is displayed.

Implement JavaScript with JSP

2012-01-10T23:16:00.000-08:00

Implement JavaScript with

JSP

In this section we are going to implement insert data, delete data, and update data using with JDBC database and also using of JavaScript.

Step 1: Create employee form (EmployeeInformation.jsp) .

In this step first of all create Employee information form and retrieved employee id from database using with JDBC database.

Here is the code EmployeeInformation.jsp

<%@ page language="java" import="java.lang.*" import="java.sql.*" %>

<html>
<body border="1" bgcolor="pink" width="650">
<%
Connection con = null;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.211:3306/";
String db = "amar";
String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String userName ="amar";
String password="amar123";
Class.forName(driver);
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+db,userName,password);
Statement stmt=null;
%>

<form method="GET" ACTION="ProcessAction.jsp">
<h3> <P ALIGN="CENTER"> <FONT SIZE=5> EMPLOYEE INFORMATION </FONT> </P> </h3> </br> </br>
<br>
<br>
<table callspacing=5 cellpadding=5 bgcolor="lightblue" colspan=2 rowspan=2 align="center">
<tr>
<td> <font size=5> Enter Employee ID </td>
<td> <input type="TEXT" ID="id" name="empid"> </font>
<select name="empIds" onchange="document.getElementById('id').value=this.options[this.selectedIndex].text"> <option>Select One</option>
<%
String rec="SELECT empid,empname FROM Employee ORDER BY empid";
try {
stmt=con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=stmt.executeQuery(rec);
while(rs.next())
{
%>
<option><%= rs.getInt(1)%></option>
<%}
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
%>
</select>
</font> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <font size=5> Enter Employee Name </td>
<td><input type="text" name="empname"> </font> </td>
</tr>
<tr> <font size=5> <B>
<td><input type="RADIO" name="r1" VALUE="add" >Insert </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="RADIO" name="r1" VALUE="del" >Delete </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="RADIO" name="r1" VALUE="mod" >Modify </td>
</tr>
</font> </b>
<tr> <td><input type="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit">
<input type="RESET" value="Reset"> </TD>
</tr>
</body>
</html>

Step 2 : Create "ProcessAction.jsp" for Process the Data and forward according to user requirement.

In this step first of all we will create ProcessAction.jsp for getting all string value using withgetParameter() method and forward on different page like JSPInsertAction.jsp, ClearAction.jsp, and update.jsp.

<%@ page language="java" %>
<%@ page import="java.lang.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%
String str=request.getParameter("r1");
String name=request.getParameter("empname");
String code=request.getParameter("empid");

if(str.equals("add")) {
%>
<jsp:forward page="JSPInsertAction.jsp"/>

<%
}
else if(str.equals("del")) {
%>
<jsp:forward page="ClearAction.jsp" />
<%
}
else if(str.equals("mod")) {
%>
<jsp:forward page="update.jsp" />
<%
}
else {
%>
<jsp:forward page="Noresponse.html" />
<%
}
%>

Step 3: Create data insert action page ("JSPInsertAction.jsp").

This code using for insert data into database by using JDBC database. When you will select same employee id and employee name then massage will display employee id already exit in database.

<%@ page language="java" import="java.lang.*" import="java.sql.*" %>

<HTML>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME="f1" ACTION="EmplyeeInformation.jsp">
<%
Connection con = null;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.211:3306/";
String db = "amar";
String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String userName ="amar";
String password="amar123";

String str=request.getParameter("r1");
String empname=request.getParameter("empname");
String code=request.getParameter("empid");
int ent=0;
String failed="";
try{
String click="SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Employee WHERE empid='"+code+"' and empname='"+empname+"'";
Class.forName(driver);
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+db,userName,password);
Statement stmt=null;
stmt=con.createStatement();
ResultSet ok = stmt.executeQuery(click);
while(ok.next()) {
ent=ok.getInt(1);
}
if(ent==0) {
String insertQry = "insert Employee values('"+code+"','"+empname+"')";
int val = stmt.executeUpdate(insertQry);

%>
<script language="javascript">
alert("Insertion successful");
document.location="EmplyeeInformation.jsp";
</script>
<%
}
if(ent==1) {
%>
<script language="javascript">
alert("This Emp ID already Exists");
document.location="EmplyeeInformation.jsp";
</script>
<%
}
stmt.close();
con.close();
}
catch(Exception e) {
out.println(e.toString());
}
%>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Step 4: Create data deletion code from database ("ClearAction.jsp").

In this step you will learn how to delete data from database. When, you will select employee id and employee name then select delete radio button after selecting delete radio button when you will click on submit button then data will successfully delete from database.

<%@ page language="java" import="java.lang.*" import="java.sql.*" %>

<%
Connection con = null;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.211:3306/";
String db = "amar";
String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String userName ="amar";
String password="amar123";

String str=request.getParameter("r1");
String name=request.getParameter("empname");
String code=request.getParameter("empid");
int EmpID=Integer.parseInt(code);
try {
Class.forName(driver);
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+db,userName,password);
String sql = "delete from Employee where empid= ?";
PreparedStatement stmt=null;
stmt=con.prepareStatement(sql);
stmt.setInt(1,EmpID);
int erase=stmt.executeUpdate();
if(erase==0) { %>
<script language="javascript">
alert("Deletion successful");
</script>
<%
}
if(erase==1) { %>
<script language="javascript">
alert("Deletion successful");
</script>
<%
}

stmt.close();
con.close();
out.println("Data delete successfully from database.");
}
catch(Exception e) {
out.println(e);
}
%>

Step 5: Create update data code ("update.jsp").

In this step you will learn, how to modify data in database by using JDBC database.

<%@ page language="java" import="java.lang.*" import="java.sql.*" %>

<HTML>
<BODY>
<%
Connection con = null;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.211:3306/";
String db = "amar";
String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String userName ="amar";
String password="amar123";

String rep=request.getParameter("empname");
String code=(String)request.getParameter("empid");
int ID=Integer.parseInt(code);
try {
Class.forName(driver);
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+db,userName,password);
String rec="UPDATE Employee SET empname='"+rep+"' where empid='"+ID+"'";

Statement stmt=null;
stmt=con.createStatement();
int mod=stmt.executeUpdate(rec);
if(mod==0) { %>
<script language="javascript">
alert("This Emp ID already Exists");
</script>
<%
}
if(mod==1) { %>
<script language="javascript">
alert("Record Updated Successfully");

</script>
<%
}
con.commit();
stmt.close();
con.close();

}
catch(Exception e) { %>
<script language="javascript">
alert("Please Enter New Name");
document.location="EmplyeeInformation.jsp";
</script>
<%
}

%>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Here is the output of this program:

When you will enter new employee id and employee name and select insert button after selecting insert button click on submit button then data will insert successfully in database.

If you will select same employee id then massage will display like this.

If you want to modify record then select employee id and enter new employee name. When you will select modify radio button then click on submit button then massage will display like this.

Accessing database from JSP

2012-01-10T23:12:00.000-08:00

Accessing database

from JSP

Introduction
In This article I am going to discuss the connectivity from MYSQL database with JSP.we take a example of Books database. This database contains a table named books_details. This table contains three fields- id, book_name& author. we starts from very beginning. First we learn how to create tables in MySQl database after that we write a html page for inserting the values in 'books_details' table in database. After submitting values a table will be showed that contains the book name and author name.

Database
The database in example consists of a single table of three columns or fields. The database name is "books" and it contains information about books names & authors.

Table:books_details

ID	Book Name	Author
1.	Java I/O	Tim Ritchey
2.	Java & XML,2 Edition	Brett McLaughlin
3.	Java Swing, 2nd Edition	Dave Wood, Marc Loy,

Start MYSQL prompt and type this SQL statement & press Enter-

MYSQL>CREATE DATABASE `books` ;

This will create "books" database.
Now we create table a table "books_details" in database "books".

     MYSQL>CREATE TABLE `books_details` (
    `id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
    `book_name` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
   `author` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
    PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
    ) TYPE = MYISAM ;
This will create a table "books_details" in database "books"

JSP Code

The following code contains html for user interface & the JSP backend-

<%@ page language="java" import="java.sql.*" %>

<%
 String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
 Class.forName(driver).newInstance();

 Connection con=null;
 ResultSet rst=null;
 Statement stmt=null;

 try{
  String url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/books?user=
<user>&password=<password>";
  con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);
  stmt=con.createStatement();
 }
 catch(Exception e){
  System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }

 if(request.getParameter("action") != null){ 
  String bookname=request.getParameter("bookname");
  String author=request.getParameter("author");
  stmt.executeUpdate("insert into books_details(book_name,
author) values('"+bookname+"','"+author+"')");
  rst=stmt.executeQuery("select * from books_details");
  %>
  <html>
  <body>
  <center>
   <h2>Books List</h2>
   <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding
="0">
   <tr>
    <td><b>S.No</b></td>
    <td><b>Book Name</b></td>
    <td><b>Author</.b></td>
   </tr>
     <%
    int no=1;
    while(rst.next()){
    %>
    <tr>
      <td><%=no%></td>
      <td><%=rst.getString("
book_name")%></td>
      <td> <%=rst.getString("author")
%> </td>
    </tr>
    <%
    no++;
 }
 rst.close();
 stmt.close();
 con.close();
%>
   </table>
   </center>
  </body>
 </html>
<%}else{%>
 <html>
 <head>
  <title>Book Entry FormDocument</title>
  <script language="javascript">
      function validate(objForm){
   if(objForm.bookname.value.length==0){
   alert("Please enter Book Name!");
   objForm.bookname.focus();
   return false;
   }
   if(objForm.author.value.length==0){
   alert("Please enter Author name!");
   objForm.author.focus();
   return false;
   }
   return true;
    }
   </script>
  </head>

  <body>
   <center>
<form action="BookEntryForm.jsp" method="post" 
name="entry" onSubmit="return
 validate(this)">
 <input type="hidden" value="list" name="action">
 <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
 <tr>
  <td>
   <table>
    <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center">
<h2>Book Entry Form</h2></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Book Name:</td>
    <td><input name="bookname" type=
"text" size="50"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Author:</td><td><input name=
"author" type="text" size="50"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td colspan="2" align="center">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
     </tr>
    </table>
   </td>
  </tr>
 </table>
</form>
   </center>
  </body>
 </html>
<%}%>

Now we explain the above codes.

Declaring Variables: Java is a strongly typed language which means, that variables must be explicitly declared before use and must be declared with the correct data types. In the above example code we declare some variables for making connection. Theses variables are-

Connection con=null;
ResultSet rst=null;
Statement stmt=null;

The objects of type Connection, ResultSet and Statement are associated with the Java sql. "con" is a Connection type object variable that will hold Connection type object. "rst" is a ResultSet type object variable that will hold a result set returned by a database query. "stmt" is a object variable of Statement .Statement Class methods allow to execute any query.

Connection to database: The first task of this programmer is to load database driver. This is achieved using the single line of code :-

String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
Class.forName(driver).newInstance();

The next task is to make a connection. This is done using the single line of code :-

String url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/books?user=<userName>&password=<password>";
con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);

When url is passed into getConnection() method of DriverManager class it returns connection object.

Executing Query or Accessing data from database:

This is done using following code :-

stmt=con.createStatement(); //create a Statement object
rst=stmt.executeQuery("select * from books_details");

stmt is the Statement type variable name and rst is the RecordSet type variable. A query is always executed on a Statement object.
A Statement object is created by calling createStatement() method on connection object con.

The two most important methods of this Statement interface are executeQuery() and executeUpdate(). The executeQuery() method executes an SQL statement that returns a single ResultSet object. The executeUpdate() method executes an insert, update, and delete SQL statement. The method returns the number of records affected by the SQL statement execution.

After creating a Statement ,a method executeQuery() or executeUpdate() is called on Statement objectstmt and a SQL query string is passed in method executeQuery() or executeUpdate().
This will return a ResultSet rst related to the query string.

Reading values from a ResultSet:

while(rst.next()){

%>

<tr><td><%=no%></td><td><%=rst.getString("book_name")%></td><td><%=rst.getString("author")%></td></tr>

<%

}

The ResultSet represents a table-like database result set. A ResultSet object maintains a cursor pointing to its current row of data. Initially, the cursor is positioned before the first row. Therefore, to access the first row in the ResultSet, you use the next() method. This method moves the cursor to the next record and returns true if the next row is valid, and false if there are no more records in theResultSet object.

Other important methods are getXXX() methods, where XXX is the data type returned by the method at the specified index, including String, long, and int. The indexing used is 1-based. For example, to obtain the second column of type String, you use the following code:

resultSet.getString(2);

You can also use the getXXX() methods that accept a column name instead of a column index. For instance, the following code retrieves the value of the column LastName of type String.

resultSet.getString("book_name");

The above example shows how you can use the next() method as well as the getString()method. Here you retrieve the 'book_name' and 'author' columns from a table called 'books_details'. You then iterate through the returned ResultSet and print all the book name and author name in the format " book name | author " to the web page.

Summary:

This article presents JDBC and shows how you can manipulate data in a relational database from your JSP page. To do this, you need to use the java.sql package: DriverManager, Connection,Statement, and ResultSet. Keep in mind, however, that this is only an introduction. To create a Web application, you need JDBC to use more features such as prepared statements and connection pooling.

When you click on the above link a Book Entry Form will open

Fill the book name and author fields and press Submit button. A page will open and show a table of book name and authors like...

Retrieving the data posted to a JSP file from HTML file

2012-01-10T23:07:00.000-08:00

Retrieving the data

posted to a JSP file

from HTML file

Now I will show you how to retrieve the data posted from a HTML file in a JSP page. Consider an html page that prompts the user to enter his/her name, let's call it getname.htm. Here is the code of the html file:

<html>
<head>
<title>Enter your name</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> </p>
<form method="POST" action="SECOND.jsp">

<p><font color="#800000" size="5">Enter your name:</font><input type
="text" name="username" size="20"></p>

<p><input type="submit" value="Submit"name="B1"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

The target of form is "showname.jsp", which displays the name entered by the user. To retrieve the value entered by the user we uses the

request.getParameter("username");

code.

Here is the code of "SECOND.jsp" file:

<%@pagecontentType="text/html" %>

<!--

http://learnwebdesigns.blogspot.com/

-->

<html>

<body>

<p><font size="6">Welcome :  <%=request.getParam
eter("username")%></font></p>

</body>

</html>

Writing the Date JSP

2012-01-10T22:52:00.000-08:00

JSP date example JSP Date Example Till now you learned about the JSP syntax, now I will show you how to create a simple dynamic JSP page that prints the current date and time. So the following code accomplish this: <%@page contentType="text/html"

JSP date example

Till now you learned about the JSP syntax, now I will show you how to create a simple dynamic JSP page that prints the current date and time. So the following code accomplish this:

<%@page contentType="text/html" import="java.util.*" %>

<!--

http://LEARNWEBDESIGN.BLOGSPOT.COM

-->

<tr>
<td width="100%"><font size="6" color
="#008000"> Date Example</font></td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%"><b> Current Date
and time is:  <font color="#FF0000">

<%= new java.util.Date() %>
</font></b></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</div>
</body>
</html>

The heart of this example is Date() function of the java.util package which returns the current data and time.

In the JSP Declaratives

<%@page contentType="text/html" import="java.util.*" %>

we are importing the java.util package and following JSP Expression code

<%= new java.util.Date() %>

prints the current date on the page.

INTRODUCTION TO JSP SCRIPTLETS

2012-01-10T22:49:00.000-08:00

INTRODUCTION TO JSP

SCRIPTLETS

Syntax of JSP Scriptles are:

<%
//java codes
%>

JSP Scriptlets begins with <% and ends %> .We can embed any amount of java code in the JSP Scriptlets. JSP Engine places these code in the _jspService() method. Variables available to the JSP Scriptlets are:

request:
request represents the clients request and is a subclass of HttpServletRequest. Use this variable to retrieve the data submitted along the request.
Example: <%
//java codes
   String userName=null;
   userName=request.getParameter("userName");
   %>
response:
response is subclass of HttpServletResponse.
session:
session represents the HTTP session object associated with the request.
out:
out is an object of output stream and is used to send any output to the client.

Other variable available to the scriptlets are pageContext, application,config and exception.

INTRODUCTION TO JSP EXPRESSIONS

Syntax of JSP Expressions are:

<%="Any thing" %>

JSP Expressions start with

Syntax of JSP Scriptles are with <%= and ends with %>. Between these this you can put anything and that will converted to the String and that will be displayed.

Example: <%="Hello World!" %>Above code will display 'Hello World!'.

JSP Actions

2012-01-10T22:45:00.001-08:00

JSP Actions

In this section we will explain you about JSP Action tags and in the next section we will explain the uses of these tags with examples. We will also show how to use JSP Action Tags in the JSP application.

What is JSP Actions?

Servlet container provides many built in functionality to ease the development of the applications. Programmers can use these functions in JSP applications. The JSP Actions tags enables the programmer to use these functions. The JSP Actions are XML tags that can be used in the JSP page.

Here is the list of JSP Actions:

jsp:include
The jsp:include action work as a subroutine, the Java servlet temporarily passes the request and response to the specified JSP/Servlet. Control is then returned back to the current JSP page.
jsp:param
The jsp:param action is used to add the specific parameter to current request. The jsp:param tag can be used inside a jsp:include, jsp:forward or jsp:params block.
jsp:forward
The jsp:forward tag is used to hand off the request and response to another JSP or servlet. In this case the request never return to the calling JSP page.
jsp:plugin
In older versions of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer; different tags is used to embed applet. The jsp:plugin tag actually generates the appropriate HTML code the embed the Applets correctly.
jsp:fallback
The jsp:fallback tag is used to specify the message to be shown on the browser if applets is not supported by browser.
Example:
<jsp:fallback>
<p>Unable to load applet</p>
</jsp:fallback>
jsp:getProperty
The jsp:getPropertyB is used to get specified property from the JavaBean object.
jsp:setProperty
The jsp:setProperty tag is used to set a property in the JavaBean object.
jsp:useBean
The jsp:useBean tag is used to instantiate an object of Java Bean or it can re-use existing java bean object.

INTRODUCTION TO JSP DECLARATIVES

2012-01-10T22:43:00.001-08:00

INTRODUCTION TO JSP

DECLARATIVES

Syntax of JSP Declaratives are:

<%!
//java codes
%>

JSP Declaratives begins with <%! and ends %> with .We can embed any amount of java code in the JSP Declaratives. Variables and functions defined in the declaratives are class level and can be used anywhere in the JSP page.

Example:

<%@page contentType="text/html" %><html>
<body>
<%!
int cnt=0;
private int getCount(){
//increment cnt and return the value
cnt++;
return cnt;
}
%>
<p>Values of Cnt are:</p>
<p><%=getCount()%></p>
<p><%=getCount()%></p>
<p><%=getCount()%></p>
<p><%=getCount()%></p>
<p><%=getCount()%></p>
<p><%=getCount()%></p>
</body></html>

The above example prints the value of variable cnt.

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