Software for Web Developers: Top Five During the development of a website, developers must use a variety of tools. Software to create the site, edit graphics, transfer files, SSH or telnet into your server--this article will cover five of the best.
How To Use JavaScript To Auto-Submit Dropdowns, With No Submit Button As a developer, I not only create websites, but I browse and interact on the web each day. One thing that I have found that is irritating, as a user, is when you are required to choose a selection from a dropdown form, and once selected, it does not autosubmit. In this tutorial we will show you have to use JavaScript to do just that.
Featured Goodies
How to Ban Problem Users and Spammers via .htaccess We've shown you how to use .htaccess for custom error pages and index pages, as well as how to use it to password protect directories and files. This week we're going to show you how to use .htaccess to ban users via a specific IP address or range of addresses and get rid of spammers.
More Web Development Tools and Tips Developers Should Know About Last week we showed you some web development tools and services that you can't live without, including CAPTCHA, APIs and discussion forums. This week we're going to continue with the discussion, and we'll talk about free scripts, .htaccess and php.ini.
Beyond HTML
How to Make Your Web Images Load Quickly: Introduction To Web Images Web graphics can increase your pageviews and generate a lot of interest. The down side is these graphics can also be the source of many issues. In this series, you will learn how bitmaps work, when to use JPEG, GIF, and PNG formats and how to create web page graphics that load quickly.
jQuery Basics for Web Developers: Mouse Events As with JavaScript, jQuery supports a lot of events. Events are methods that can be attached to HTML elements. If you want to add a click event, change event, or double-click event, it's really easy with jQuery. In this article, we will explore many of these events and the ways to apply them to your objects.
HTML and Graphics Tutorials
Web-based Mobile Apps of the Future Using HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript The rise in the use of mobile devices has led many a developer to throw up their hands in frustration. Should a business require both a website and a mobile application? This report discusses why the future may be lie in HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript applications that work equally well on all mobile platforms.
Web Design 101: Creating Drop Caps in HTML and CSS A long time ago, it was very common practice in books and magazines for the style template to call for a Drop Cap. A drop cap is a means to stylize a paragraph and to add a little splash and flavor to a page, and this tutorial will show you how to create it using HTML and CSS.
How To Add a YouTube Video to Your Web Site Embedding a video from YouTube in your website is quite simple these days. In this tutorial we'll show you how to do it, and how to use the more advanced embedding features that YouTube now provides to web developers.
Web Developer's Guide: How to Speed Up Your Website There was a time way back in this author's career when making web sites as fast as possible was almost as high a priority as making them look good. Google recently announced that site speed will affect page ranking, but what can cause speed problems and how do you fix them? That is what we hope to answer in this article.
Primers
Using iPhone User Interface Framework (iUI) To Create "Native" Websites for the iPhone We've learned how to detect the iPhone's user agent, use Safari for testing, detect and set the viewport orientation, use CSS and meta tags for iPhone and iPad layouts. This week we'll learn about the iPhone User Interface Framework (iUI), which consists of a JavaScript library, CSS and images for developing websites which appear and function like native iPhone apps.
iPhone Special Developer Report The iPhone's popularity is exponential, and developers are jumping on board to create apps for both the iPhone and its sister tablet, the iPad. In this report, we're going to look at the iPhone, its features, developer tools and support, costs, demographics, and how the iPhone shapes the future of mobile web development.
iWebkit for the iPhone Developer: Adding Menus, List Items and Text Boxes In our last article we told you about iWebkit, and showed you what you can do with this powerful JavaScript, HTML and CSS framework. In this article we'll continue with the construction of an iPhone-ready HTMLGoodies website, and show you how to use list items, menus, text boxes and create splash screens and icons for your iOS device-ready web app.
Using the iWebkit iPhone Development Framework for Creating Web Apps We've previously discussed using the iUI framework for creating iPhone-ready websites, but there's another player in the iPhone framework market, and that's iWebkit. This week we'll look at how you can use iWebkit to create an iPhone ready website that looks and acts like a native application!
How Can I Detect the iPhone & iPad's User Agent? So you've decided to create a mobile website for iPhone and iPad users, rather than creating a web applications. Where do you start? This tutorial will show you how to detect the popular mobile devices using JavaScript, PHP and your site's .htaccess file!
Using Safari for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Website Testing Last week we showed you how to detect the iPhone & iPad's user agent. This week we'll show you how to use Apple's Safari web browser for testing your iDevice-ready website by simulating an HTTP request from Safari on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
iPad and iPhone Development: Using CSS Layouts We've learned how to detect the iPhone and iPad user agent, how to test and set orientation and how to test our iDevice-ready websites using Safari. This week we're going to show you how to start putting all of the pieces together, and use CSS layouts for the disply of our iPad-ready website.
Web Development Daily News
Adobe Announces Release of Flash Media Server 4
Watching videos is one of the most popular activities online, as proven by YouTube's daily quota of almost two billion downloads. Adobe this week released its Flash Media Server 4, a tool that could potentially be used on enterprise networks.
HTML 5, Microsoft and the Future
Some Twitter posts from former Silverlight Product Manager Scott Barnes have interested developers. Internal debates are raging concerning the future of HTML 5 and the direction that Microsoft will be taking in regards to the emerging standard.
Mozilla To Create Browser-Based Games Division
Mozilla this week announced that it has created a new division which will create games that can be played directly on web browsers. The new division, named Mozilla Labs Gaming, with use standard web technologies to make gaming available on the Open Web.
Websites To Communicate Verbally Thanks to HTML 5
If the new activity group in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has its way, websites may eventually communicate verbally with visitors using the features of HTML 5. The W3C is looking into the possibility of incorporating voice recognition and speech synthesis interfaces iuto the web experience.
Search Engine Optimization Voodoo for Web Developers
With more than 15 billion web pages online, search engine optimization (SEO) is getting trickier every day. Certain SEO companies are expert at what some call the dark side of SEO, voodoo optimization.
