Tools for Cross-browser Compatibility: Screen Capture
Cross-browser (or multi-browser) testing, through which you compare a website's look and performance among different browser versions and platforms, is an important and often frustrating task. This article introduces a few screenshot sampling tools to aid in your analysis.
Tools for Cross Browser Compatibility: Live Testing
Cross browser testing, through which you compare a website's look and performance among different browser versions and platforms, is an important and often frustrating task. This article introduces a few live testing tools to aid in your analysis.
Web Developer Basics: Learning About HTML5
HTML5, depending on who you listen to, may be either a disruptive new technology that has the potential to bring entire companies to their knees, or a smooth transition from current HTML 4.0 that promises to make life much easier for developers. Both are at least partially true, and in this continuing series, I hope to help you make sense out of HTML5: both business sense and nuts-and-bolts coding-level sense.
Web Developer Tutorial: JavaScript and CSS Minification
When a user visits a website for the first time, any external JavaScript and CSS files are downloaded to their browser's cache. Depending on the size of the file, this can take more time for the page to render. With more people surfing using mobile platforms, it is a good idea to minify your JavaScript and CSS files. This tutorial will teach you how to do just that!
Firefox Extensions for the Web Developer
In this series of articles, I will introduce a few Firefox extensions (also called "add-ons") to aid web development. The mini applications let you quickly evaluate and tweak your sites look and performance.
Top HTML 5 Tutorials from HTMLGoodies
HTML5 is an emerging technology that is slowly changing the face of the web. The latest browsers support it, and developers are eager to begin using it on their websites. HTMLGoodies features many tutorials on the topic, and we've brought them all together here for your perusal.
JavaScript Libraries for the Descriminating Web Developer
As a web developer, I have delved into many different JavaScript libraries and frameworks. Through my work with these libraries, I have come up with a descriminating list of some of the more important JavaScript libraries that should be in every developer's toolbox.
How To Change Text Color Using HTML and CSS
You've seen it on many sites! In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the color of text, links and visited links on a web page using HTML or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Top 10 Productivity Tips for Web Developers
Web development is about many things: concept, design, development, testing and much more. In this article we're going to look at a variety of tips to help you throughout the design process.
Graphics School: How to Customize Web Photo Galleries in Photoshop CS3
In the last lesson we looked at the process of building Web galleries in Photoshop CS3. The result, while functional, isn't pleasing to the eye and needs quite a bit of customization to give us a result that we can use in real life. This tutorial will show you how to do just that!
Tutorial: How to Create Hotspots and Rollovers in Paintshop Photo Pro
Image maps are where the designer has created a special region or hotspot to act as a trigger to another web page. The hotspot could be a circle, triangle, rectangle or polygon. In this article we're going to look at how you can create Hotspots and Rollovers in Paintshop Photo Pro.
How to Build Web Galleries in Photoshop CS3
One of my favorite aspects of Photoshop is its ability to create custom web galleries. In this tutorial you'll learn the basics of the process, and we'll give you a few tips to save you some time.
Principles Of MVC for PHP Developers
In this article I will attempt to explain everything you need to know about MVC--the Model View Controller-- in the simplest possible way, from the perspective of a PHP developer.
The Mobile Web with jQuery Mobile
In October of 2010, the jQuery team released a mobile version of their awesome JavaScript library. This tutorial will tell you all about jQuery mobile, and show you how you can use it with mobile devices.
jQuery Basics for Web Developers: Other Events
So far I have talked about form events, mouse events, and keyboard events, to finish out the events; I will discuss the remaining events. Actually, there are a few more than what we have discussed, but those are more advanced topics for a later time.
Web Developer Class: How to Create Consistent Web Layouts
Web page design has become quite complicated due to the rapid advances in technology. Still, you can make your life much easier if you plan your web site in advance of building it. In this tutorial are some tips to help you with the design process.
A Web Developer Looks at Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
It's been many years since I reviewed the previous version of Dreamweaver (CS3) and I have been looking forward to the updates in this application. In this review we'll take a look at several important updates, including enhanced CSS starter layouts, comprehensive CSS support and integration with Adobe BrowserLab.
Principles Of Object Oriented Programming in PHP
Object Oriented Programming, or OOP, refers to the method of programming that invokes the use of classes to organize the data and structure of an application. In this article we are going explore exactly what OOP is in relation to PHP, and look at a few things you should remember about it as well. We'll end of with a simple example of how to use it.
An Overview of Open Web Applications for Developers
You may have heard about Google's coming venture in web-based applications. Now Mozilla has announced it will be opening its own Open Web App Store where similar apps will be available. So just what are these web apps? They are applications that are made using the core technologies of the web: HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Top Five Web Hosting Companies for Web Developers
At some point most web developers will be in the position of having to either provide hosting for their clients' websites, or they will need to know which web hosts to to recommend to their clients. This article will tell you about five of the most reliable, economical and dependable web hosts out there who cater to web developers.
Drupal 7 Beta: A Developer Looks at Themes and Modules
Last week we took a look at the beta release of Drupal 7, a long awaited update to one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS) today. This week we're going to take a look at Drupal 7's themes and modules!