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Sunday, May 4th, 2008 |
Sometimes we’ve just redesigned some pages of our web site. The pages have high search engine rankings that we don’t want to lose. How can we safely redirect web site traffic from our old pages to the new pages without losing our rankings?
We should set up a permanent redirect (technically called a “301 redirect”) between these sites. Once we do that, we will get full search engine credit for our work on these sites.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008 |
The OpenID Foundation have announced that representatives from Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! have all joined its board, which means a massive step forward for the integration of singles IDs.
What is OpenID?
OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.
You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 |
If you want to install and set up a dynamic web server with Apache, a lot of applications such as Apache web server, mySQL database, PHP and Perl scripting language, and not to mention important extensions and tools to manage the web server’s applications. It’s not a easy and simple task. But luckily, there is XAMPP from Apache Friends.
XAMPP is a collection of free software applications for installing and using the Apache Web server. There are different combination of applications depending on which XAMPP distributions. Currently there are four type of XAMPP distributions available: XAMPP for Linux (previously known as LAMPP), XAMPP for Windows, XAMPP for Mac OS X, XAMPP for Solaris. Typically, XAMPP is a full featured AMPP (Apache MySQL, PHP, Perl), an Apache distribution that includes the Apache Web server, MySQL database, PHP, Perl, FTP server and phpMyAdmin, with several other important and commonly used extension built-in, such as SSL.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008 |
Here is an amazing flash component for photo album with 3D flipping effect and motion blur. PhotoFLIP can help you to build a 3D photo album easily (full Action Script 3.0 API). The following is the live demo for PhotoFLIP. For more information, you can visit its website – http://www.digicrafts.com.hk/components/
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 |
.htaccess is a text file containing commands that instruct web servers how to behave in certain situations, providing a way for you to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis.
.htaccess Editor enables you to easily create .htaccess files online without having to learn complex .htaccess rules. With the .htaccess editor, you can generate .htaccess code includes:
* Basic authentication – used to specify the security restrictions for the particular directory.
* Custom error pages – redirect visitors to pages that match your site design instead of the standard server error pages.
* Password protection – restrict access to certain directories by requiring a password to view the contents.
* Default pages – set default pages on a directory-by-directory basis.
* Redirect directives – redirect requests for a specific file or directory to a new destination.
* Access restrictions – allowed or denied certain addresses.
Creating .htaccess files has never been easier with .htaccess Editor.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008 |
As a site or blog owner, you definately want to know where your visitors come from. I found a nice widget which can help you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from – live!
Embeddable maps are available in two sizes, one just like the map to your right, and a smaller version for sites that could use the savings in space. You can build your own by clicking here.
The following is sample map for Office-it.orG.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008 |
I have an addiction. I can’t help but view source on every nice looking website I see. It’s like if you had x-ray glasses that allowed you to see any person you ever saw in their underwear at will. How could you not?
It’s just so tempting to see if a beautiful website is built with beautiful code as well, or if it’s beauty if only skin-deep. Code? Beautiful? Sure. After all, Code is Art. This is just HTML, so it can’t be quite as intricate and elegant as a dynamic language, but it still bears the brush strokes of it’s creator and there is craftsmanship abound.
It gets me to thinking, what makes beautiful code? In HTML, it really comes down to craftsmanship. It’s all those little things added up that make the whole. Here is a list of just some of the little things that I look for in other’s code and that I try to do myself that make for good craftsmanship in HTML:
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008 |
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 |
Common Ajax tasks should be easy, and with Prototype and Scriptaculous they are. Prototype and Scriptaculous are libraries of reusable JavaScript code that simplify Ajax development. Prototype provides helpful methods and objects that extend JavaScript in a safe, consistent way. Its clever Ajax request model simplifies cross-browser development. Scriptaculous, which is based on Prototype, offers handy pre-fabricated widgets for rich UI development.
Two books recommended here:
(1) Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action
Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action is a comprehensive, practical guide that walks you feature-by-feature through the two libraries. First, you’ll use Scriptaculous to make easy but powerful UI improvements. Then you’ll dig into Prototype’s elegant and sparse syntax. See how a few characters of Prototype code can save a dozen lines of JavaScript. By applying these techniques, you can concentrate on the function and flow of your application instead of the coding details. This book is written for web developers with a working knowledge of JavaScript.
Sample Chapter:
Chapter 8
Sample Chapter 4
Sample Chapter 6
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 |
You don’t like to scroll? Be prepared. (We warned you.)
Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich the visual appearance and is compatible with the overall design. However, usually there are simply too many options you can consider, which is why you need time to find the option you are most comfortable with. Although the choice usually depends on clients’ requirements, it is necessary to have some pretty starting points for your font decision.
So which typefaces are “bulletproof”? What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces?
We have answers. Over the last few days we’ve browsed through dozens of type foundries, read dozens of designers’ articles about typography, analyzed font rankings and visited bookmarked font-related suggestions. So this post has ‘em all. Well, OK, at least many of them.
Let’s take a look at over 80 gorgeous typefaces for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web-developers all over the world. Most screenshots are taken from the foundries and provided specimens – particularly on Veer.com and Fontshop.com.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007 |
One of the things that the beginners learn is that coding is important, and that code is an important artifact. Which makes it difficult to convince them why giving away code is not dangerous. The philosophy of open source is usually met with raised eyebrows and skepticism in classrooms, especially if they have come to read how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs built companies and made money.
So here is yet another analogy, to explain why giving away the code only helps.
Imagine you run a transport service, ferrying passengers to destinations they want. A part of your job is to follow maps, find out new routes and build your knowledge about them so that you can take your passengers to the right destination. Now, if someone asks you for directions for going from one place to another, would you hesitate? In fact you would only be helping that person out by giving out the directions. Someone else comes too for them, and so you just make them available to everyone. Would that be a problem? It will hardly be, since your job is to enable your passengers to reach their destination, which is more than just directions. They might have a time-limit, they might want some intermediate hops or they might even have some weird baggage to be carried. You can help the passenger plan their travel, and even help them decide whether they want to travel by air, water or road. You try your best to provide a safe and convenient travel for your passengers within their constraints and that is what you get paid for.
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Monday, December 31st, 2007 |
1. Use Labels
You don’t need labels for your form to work, but as one CSS-Tricks reader once put it, it is an accessibility crime not to use them. Labels are what signify what the input box is for and associate them together. The use of the <label> tag is not only semantically correct, but it gives you the opportunity to style them uniquely with CSS.
2. Float Your Labels
This is how you achieve that table-like structure on forms without having to actually use a table. Just set a static width, float it the left, align the text to the right, and give it a little right-margin. Beautiful.
label {
float: left;
text-align: right;
margin-right: 15px;
width: 100px;
}
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