Tutorials
Hiring Web Developers: What to Know
Basing your Decision on Price Alone Price is always an important factor when choosing any product or service. For those who are not familiar with web design companies and don’t know what questions to ask, often the default is to choose the lowest bidder and this could be a serious error. It is very likely [...]
Seven Crucial Elements of a Successful Web Presence
There is more to an effective website than great looking graphics. In fact there are seven crucial elements every site needs to maximize profits. Balanced Visual Appeal. – Of course your site needs to have a clean, attractive design. The Web is a visual medium and an ugly website is often the kiss of [...]
How To Get Repeat Visitors To Your Website
As the proud publisher of a website I’m sure you have spent a considerable amount of time and effort to attract traffic to your site. It’s not difficult to realize how it is to your advantage to get repeat visitors to your website, rather than to constantly be relying on finding someone new. A visitor [...]
NorthClick Blog: Tips for creating a small but solid newsletter-system
On the NorthClick blog today, there’s a quick little set of hints talking about the creation of a simple (“but solid”) newsletter system for your website. He breaks it down into the individual steps you’ll need to follow: Use a Framework Queue in the database Use SMTP Check Headers Test it In the step involving [...]
Hiveminds: How to Bridge PHP and Java for Powerful Web Solutions
Hiveminds has published a new tutorial today that looks at bridging the gap between Java and PHP by allowing the execution of Java jar files from within PHP. Here’s how to team up two of the most popular and powerful platforms for web development together. With the php-java bridge you can build classes and jar [...]
php|architect: November 2006 Issue Released
The latest edition of php|architect magazine has been published – the November 2006 issue. Articles included in this month’s edition include: “Services made simple with PHP” – Caroline Maynard, Graham Charters, Matthew Peters, Megan Beynon, and Simon Laws “Tune Your Search Results With Ajax” – Will Fitch and Greg Black “Synchronizing the World” – Sherman [...]
Devshed: A Login System for a PHP Email Application
DevShed continues on with their creation of an email application series with part two of the series – a look at the creation of the login system for the app. We know from the previous article that the user ID is very important, in that it is used to retrieve various information from the database [...]
php|architect: Zend Framework – A Practical Tutorial
On php|architect’s site, in wake of the Zend Framework preview release previously, they’ve posted a step-by-step tutorial on how to get it installed, work it it, and ultimately create a simple news application. The Zend Framework has been unveiled! Although it is still in the early stages of development, this tutorial highlights some of the [...]
5 Web Design Tips You Can Not Live Without
The web design world is filled with excitement and experience, creativity and skill. Often, experienced web designers utilize a set of solid, proven techniques that others may not notice. Let’s take a look at a few of these techniques and how you can implement them into your own site quickly and easily. 1. Combating Internet [...]
Building An Expanding DHTML Menu With CSS and JavaScript
Introduction Today I am going to show you the different parts that make up a dropdown vertical menu for your website. This is not like your normal dropdown menu, which appears at the top of your content, however — these menus expand and remain visible until they are collapsed with the click of a mouse. [...]
