PHP and XML Sitting in a Tree
Posted on Nov 29, 2007 02:22:56 AM
There are scores of ways to store, work with, and retrieve data on the web. Simple databases, relational databases, XML, even custom flat files can hold our product catalogs, user information, and other repositories of important stuff that we want to share with the world. There are some logical ways to work with different kinds of data—for example, many people who use MySQL databases for storage will write PHP scripts to hook into their Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Sitting, TreeBook Review: High Performance Web Sites
Posted on Nov 25, 2007 01:54:31 AM
After blogging a couple of weeks ago about a forthcoming Apress book on performance from a couple of Yahoo! employees, what should fall into my lap this week but another book on website performance—by yet another Yahoo! engineer. But, this is not just any Y! hacker—Steve Souders is the man behind the YSlow Firefox/Firebug plugin, and project lead for Yahoo!’s recent widescale overhaul of the performance of their front-end websites. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, High, Performance, Review, SitesFree template download
Posted on Nov 20, 2007 11:36:23 PM
Very nice free template. It has all included, psd to edit the images and the index.html. To protect the template from beeing re-distributed elsewhere but Garcya.us/blogÃÂ I have added a password to the archive like I have done to all the templates provided here, so if you want to use it post a comment here, including contact email, and I will send you the password. Good luck
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Tags: download, Free, templateDummy Text Generator
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 10:26:49 PM
I’ve got a user request, who sent me an email asking me to write a post about he’s website. After viewing he’s online tool I’ve decided i’ll make the post so here it is:
If you design layouts for web design, print, or whatever you’ll sure need dummy texts. What is a dummy text ? Those “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet” that you see on every layout of every template.##8## Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Dummy, Generator, Text15 Tools to Make Your Site Printer Friendly
Posted on Nov 17, 2007 01:42:28 PM
It’s happened to us all: We come across a site with very helpful information and we print it. What do we get? A broken layout, ads and cut-off sentences. How do we remedy this? We use these 15 tools and CSS stylesheets to create printer friendly websites of course!
What is a printer-friendly page? About.com covers what exactly a printer-friendly page is used for and gives you pointers on creating one.CSS Media Types Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Friendly, Make, Printer, Site, Tools, yourThree Ways to Improve External Search Engine Usability
Posted on Nov 16, 2007 01:43:30 AM
Most diligent webmasters spend time on log analysis, analyzing server logs to determine where visitors are coming from, which pages they're viewing, how long they're staying, and other significant demographic and technical information. One of the most important details that logs show is which search engines visitors use to get to the site, and which search terms visitors enter. Checking this information is an extremely useful, fascinating, and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Engine, External, Improve, Search, Three, Usability, WaysNew Issue: Web Startup Alphas and Building Findable Websites
Posted on Nov 15, 2007 08:11:47 PM
Digital Web is happy to welcome Dave Goldenberg to our considerable list of contributors. Dave asks (and immediately answers) a continually relevant question: Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha. What is “alphaalpha”, you ask? Dave explains it as the “frantic time between the Product Requirements Document and the alpha release”. See what Dave prescribes for getting past early challenges with your startup.
Tags: Alphas, Building, Findable, Issue, Startup, WebsitesBuilding a Website for Analytics
Posted on Nov 15, 2007 05:43:29 AM
How to get it right the first time around
Implementing a web analytics solution is a mission-critical activity for any business serious about succeeding online. Without a comprehensive ability to analyze your site’s traffic, you’ll be unable to determine the effectiveness of your website, online marketing campaigns, and overall online business objectives.
Many companies don’t think about measurement when building Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Analytics, Building, WebsiteIn Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement
Posted on Nov 14, 2007 08:36:17 PM
The CSS-based background image replacement technique, also known as Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR), is a vital cornerstone of all future Web design.
As the Web moves away from presentational, hacked-up HTML towards a structural future, code is becoming abstract and graphic designers are losing their traditional control. CSS offers wonderful methods of regaining it, and in many ways goes further than HTML ever did. But it doesn’t Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Defense, Fahrner, Image, ReplacementWeb Design Essentials, and Robin Williams Web Design Workshop
Posted on Nov 13, 2007 04:29:02 PM
These two recent releases from Peachpit Press (the publisher of the Adobe Press imprint) are aimed at web designers of varying levels of experience. They are primarily visual books without a lot of code examples, and seem focussed for the most part on the issues involved in preparing graphics for use on a web site. Both books discuss graphical issues such as the web-safe palette, gamma differences between the Macintosh and PC platforms, and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Design, Essentials, Robin, Williams, Workshop