HTML Forms: jQuery Basics - Getting Started So what is jQuery? From the jQuery web site: "jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development." This article will show you how to let jQuery do the heavy lifting so you can concentrate on the more important stuff.
Beginning Web Developer Course: Getting Started With cPanel In our last episode, we learned how to register your new domain name, and how to find the best web hosting service. Before we sign up and start setting up our server, there's just one more big decision you have to make, and that's what operating system you want your server to run on.
Featured Goodies
HTML Forms: From Basics to Style: Enhancing with jQuery In the last article, we discussed form layouts. In this article, we will discuss how to enhance our forms with jQuery--a JavaScript library that allows for easier HTML DOM support, animations, event handling, and Ajax support--along with various jQuery plugins.
Creating Simple, Yet Effective Sitemaps in HTML You may have considered adding a sitemap to your website at one point, but never got around to it. This tutorial will tell you why you need one, and will show you how to create one using HTML.
Beyond HTML
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.
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.
HTML and Graphics Tutorials
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
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
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta Coming in September
Today Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced that the beta of Internet Explorer 9 will be released in September. Although later than expected, developers and end users are looking forward to seeing the new version of the web browser, which includes support for HTML 5 video among other features.
Analyzing Social Media SEO Results
Many businesses are delving into social networking as another facet of their online presence. Although the SEO results of social networking are not easily measured, there are a number of analytical tools available which can be used to measure whether their social networking efforts are paying off.
Adobe Buys Enterprise-Focused Web CMS from Day Software
Adobe and Day Software announced that they have entered into an agreement in which Adobe bought the company for $240 million dollars. According to Adobe, "The acquisition will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with market leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings."
Apple Updates Safari with HTML and CSS Extensions Gallery
Apple today released Safari 5.0.1, along with an official extension gallery made up of HTML and CSS extensions built by Twitter, MLB.com, Bing, eBay, Amazon and more. Users can install extensions by simply clicking an "install now" button under the extension's description.
Open Text Releases Web Site Management 10.1 CMS
This week Open Text released its Web Site Management 10.1, the CMS formerly known as Open Text Web Solutions and Red Dot. The combination of the two products was designed to simplify the lives of content and website administrators, but has it been effective?
