Introduction to Django: Helping Perfectionists With Deadlines
Posted on Jun 25, 2008 08:18:49 PM
Django is an open-source Web framework, written in Python, that allows you to easily and rapidly develop interactive, data-centric web applications. It came into being when two Web developers—Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison—in Kansas, after moving their newspaper’s website from PHP to Python, found themselves repeatedly solving similar problems. They decided to extract the common functionality and released the resulting Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Deadlines, Django, Helping, Introduction, Perfectionists, withA Designer’s Guide to Making Your Own Stock Photography (for non-photographers)
Posted on Apr 6, 2008 08:40:23 AM
As a designer, making your own stock photography means that you'll be approaching photography from an idea of a finished concept. This isn't the way most photographers think. Most commercial photographers shooting for a design firm, need instructions from an art director. Photographers need to know what your client wants. They want to know what you know and share in your vision. This can be an interesting process with you as art director and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Designer, Guide, Making, photographers, Photography, Stock, yourIntroduction to Databases
Posted on Feb 22, 2008 06:47:16 AM
Once upon a time, the mark of a savvy company was having a Web site. Sites had lots of pages and if something needed to be changed, you'd call someone who would promise to look into it right away.
Then, a couple years ago, your competitors started bragging that their Web sites were dynamic and used databases. This didn’t bother or affect you until your favorite IT guy moved to the Caribbean and was replaced by an automated answering Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Databases, IntroductionSite Planning, the Red-Headed Stepchild of the Web
Posted on Dec 22, 2007 04:09:37 AM
The Audience Is the End... What About the Beginning?
This month's issue of Digital Web drives home two points:
Keep it simple, stupid.It's the audience, stupid.
The point to this tutorial is not to reinforce these messages in the same style that you see in the rest of the issue. Had I wanted to do that, I could have written about UI design, white space, or "ommitting needless words."
Those are easy.
What hasn't Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Headed, Planning, Site, StepchildThe Unofficial WordPress Quickstart Guide: From Start to Publish
Posted on Dec 16, 2007 12:43:04 PM
WordPress is everywhere on the Internet. Who hasn’t seen a blog, news site or portfolio that isn’t at least partly powered by WordPress. WordPress is a very powerful, easy to install, easy to use blogging program. So what do you do if you want to start your own WordPress powered site, or improve your existing one? You check out this Wordpress Quickstart Guide and get yourself some awesome knowledge of Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: from, Guide, Publish, Quickstart, Start, Unofficial, WordPressPHP 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, Tree15 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, yourBuilding 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, WebsiteHow To Build A Facebook Application
Posted on Nov 7, 2007 08:37:08 AM
Facebook, as you’ve probably noticed, is everywhere. And with that ubiquity comes a massive audience just waiting for your web app. Whether you’re looking to make things easier for your current users, or you have the perfect idea for a Facebook-only application, there are a few things you’ll need to know to get started.
Getting Started
In order to install Facebook applications, or indeed to write your own, you Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Application, Build, FacebookBuilding a Bulletproof Contact Form with PHP
Posted on Nov 2, 2007 09:41:27 AM
The humble contact form: It’s the cornerstone of nearly every website, from the humble personal blog right up to the corporate megasite—and a billion small business sites in-between. In the early years of operating a website, we were happy to put our shiny new email address out there for anyone to mailto, but the rise of the spammer has made us justifiably wary of publicizing our contact details—enter the contact form. ##1## Read the rest of this entry »
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