Monday, October 12, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes,GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we’ve used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces and functionalities, which used to be the privelege of professional desktop-applications. AJAX makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. And it’s the first step towards rich internet applications of the future.
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML isn’t a new programming language, as it is often mistakingly called. Basically, AJAX is a set of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, put together and used together for the same purpose – to improve the user-server-interaction.
- To understand the idea behind AJAX, you should read Jesse James Garrett’s article “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications” and Wikipedia: Ajax;
- to learn the basics of AJAX, you should go through some AJAX tutorials we’ve presented previously;
- to learn more about professional CSS coding, you should visit 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding;
- and to get a powerful and handy CSS-Toolbox for your future projects, you can use 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without.
In this article we’d like to present a list of over 90 useful AJAX-based techniques you should always have ready to hand developing AJAX-based web-applications. Auto-completion, instant field editing, menus, calendars, interactive elements, visual effects, animation, basic javascripts, as well as an extensive developer’s suite should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day, without a need to go through hundreds of AJAX-related bookmarks.
You may also want to take a look at the article 60 More Ajax and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox
Regular expressions (”regex’s” for short) are sets of symbols and syntactic elements used to match patterns of text and they are pretty powerful. Regular expressions have been around for a very long time (in computer industry scale) and was first introduced as part of the powerful UNIX search tool grep.
The regex syntax used commonly today is compliant with Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) defined in IEEE POSIX 1003.2 (Section 2.8). EREs are supported by Apache, PHP4+, Javascript 1.3+, MS Visual Studio, MS Frontpage, most visual editors, vi, emac, the GNU family of tools (including grep, awk and sed) as well as many others. Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) will support Basic Regular Expressions (BREs are essentially a subset of EREs). The BRE syntax is considered obsolete and is only still around to preserve backward compatibility.
I believe mastering at least the most basic elements of regex is essential for any programmer. Further I know that having direct access to references, examples, ready to use patterns etc. is essential to speed up your work.
This is a toolbox for getting started and/or becoming more serious about regex. It provides details on commonly needed regexs that you can just pick up and use right away. Lets get started!
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http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tutorials/tutorials/massive-regular-expressions-toolbox.html
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Excellent Free Editors and IDEs for Developers
Most developers have picked their favourite editor and/or IDE and use it many hours every day (and night). Still it can be quite useful to know what the free alternatives are. Some of the free editors and IDEs available are really high quality and may be worth investigating. If your manly using a large IDE it is likely that having a simple editor as well may improve your efficiency when just editing single files. The free alternative IDEs are also very powerful oprions and may beat some commercials competitors easily when it comes to feaures and easy of use. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of more than 20 free Editors and IDEs useful for most developers. Let us all know if I missed a great product by posting a comment.
Editors
- Notepad++
- CodeLobster PHP Edition
- netpadd
- HAPedit
- Arachnophilia
- Visual Web Developer 2008
- Amaya
- Programmer’s Notepad
- RText
- Nvu
- PSPad
- NoteTab Light
- Crimson Editor
- Komodo Edit
- TotalEdit
- Scriptly
- HTML-Kit
IDEs
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http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/tools/excellent-free-editors-and-ides-for-developers.html
7 Great Ad Server Solutions
Ever feel overwhelmed by your advertising? That’s where ad servers come into play as they let you swap out ads quickly after only putting the HTML or JavaScript tags in your site once. After you’re all set up, you just need to head to your server whenever you need to change an ad. You can also monitor stats, geo-target ads and make numerous other little tweaks to make sure you are optimizing your returns.
What are you waiting for? Find the server solution that best suits your needs!
1) ADTECH
3) Bluestreak
4) DoubleClick
6) OpenX
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http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/08/10/7-great-ad-server-solutions/
10 SEO Tips Search Engine Optimization
Here are ten tips that we have found to help you get better page rankings on your website.
1.) Limit Multimedia
What is old is proven and true. Web designers are constantly competing against each other to design a more hip website but is it actually a site that is functional. A lot of time I just click past the Flash screens. They take up to much time and time is money. So, get into the head of the visitor to your site. Use multimedia for training and for informative pieces. Keep away from Flash screens because Google ranking bots don’t understand them.
2.) Use text, not graphics
Graphics are cool but not functional. When search engine bots go to a site they are looking for content. Search engines bots cannot find the information if it is located in a graphic. If you are using graphical buttons for navigation, make sure you have textual links located somewhere on your page. The search engine will then be able to naviagate the site. if the search engine cannot navigate the site then it will not rank the page well within the searches. Keep the graphical links to a minimal. Make sure that the search engines can get to the text links. If you have a complicated page, then position the links at the top of the page.
3.) Don’t be too clever
Stay one step behind the current technology. The web was built for research and usability. Entertainment sites, Games etc are all great. We are in the business of selling products and services. Have you ever looked at Amazons website? Amazon is one of the leaders of selling information. They do not use fancy Flash presentations. They are using black on white text. Search engines like this type of text. It is simple to navigate and that
means more visitors will come to the site. The easier your site is to navigate and search the more visitors will come to your site and tell others about it.
4.) Be straight forward
One of the pitfalls of designing a website is being evasive or being too cute. If you can understand the information that is great but what about your audience. A major downfall is a large graphic with hotspots on it. Unless you move your mouse around the image you will not know that it is
clickable. The search engine bot will not be able to do this and so you will end up failing on navigation. This will push your site lower in the rankings on the search engines which means less customers.
5.) Avoid Frames
Everyone wants to be cool and stylish. Red alert frames are outdated. They are from the 90’s. Search engines do not like them. If search engines
(momma) are not happy with it. Then avoid it. Remember not everyone is using the latest brower, so keep it simple.
6.) Make it easy to move around
When you are designing your site remember you are not the one using it. You need to design the website for navigation by the visitors. If the website is not easy to navigate then visitors will not come back. Ask yourself these questions:
• Does the website make sense from a visitor’s standpoint?
• Is information easy to access?
• Do you have unavailable links? – Search engines do not like broken links and you will be penalized.
7.) Provide visitors with different routes
When visitors go on your site you want to provide multiple routes to progress around the site. By doing this you will provide more information to the search engines. Some of the different ways:
• Sitemap – A sitemap will list the different links within your website providing more ways to navigate the website. Search engines will find this appealing.
• Table of Contents or Index Page – This is another technique that you can use. This will list your links in alphabetical order.
• Navigation bars – These are very handy for navigation. Caution!!! – If using JavaScript and other dynamic programming you need to make sure you have another way of accessing the links. Search engines have a hard time negotiating script to find the information. So, the links that you have will not be indexed correctly.
• Navigation text links – Links in text will help individuals find more information on your website. If individuals can easily navigate the site then the search engine bots will also. Some SEO professionals will recommend that you put these links towards the top then at the bottom.
8.) Use long link text
The more information that you provide with your links the more information you will give to the search engines. This also easier for the visitors to navigate your websites. Try to stay away from “Click Here”. This does not tell the visitor why they should click on the link. When designing your website links make sure that you include your keywords. This will help in calculating your keyword density. This is the % of keywords on the page.
9.) Stop restructuring your website
Broken links are mostly caused by restructuring of the website. When visitors bookmark your site they will be presented by 404 page not found. You can prevent this by not changing the structure of your website. Plan in the beginning and keep that structure. Only make changes that will not cause broken links. You can also create custom 404 page not found. A custom 404 page can redirect an individual to a page within your website which can keep the visitor within your environment.
10.) Spell Check
Nothing annoys visitors about a site more then misspelled words. This ensures that your keywords are utilized to their maximum value. So, before you publish your site have someone proof read the site. Make sure you use the spell checking services in your web design software.
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