Nettuts.com – Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 2
Continuing the series from nettuts.com,week 2 has just been published.
Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 2. Hopefully this sequel to week 1 will help to further your education in Rails. This week, we’ll do a little bit more with getting an actual page up and running. We will also work on adding more interactivity by embedding ruby in HTML and learning a little about variables. After that, we’ll learn more about Ruby’s beautiful URL structure and how to manipulate it, plus other things as well. This is definitely going to be a packed week!
Developer Works: Generate Flash movies on the fly with PHP
Rich Internet Applications is the new buzz-phrase for Web 2.0, and a key component of the substance behind Web 2.0 is Adobe Flash. Learn how to integrate Flash movies into your application and generate Flash movies dynamically using the Ming library. Web 2.0 promises Rich Internet Applications. But what does Rich Internet Applications mean? In [...]
Seven Ways to Keep Your Visitors
These days, having a website is absolutely essential for any flourishing company. But not all sites are necessarily good ones. Your website can either be very successful and get you a large number of visitors or it can so badly made that getting a single client can be hard. Generally, a good website is one [...]
Website speed: How fast should your website be?
How fast does your website load and how fast should it be? People in the industry often talk about the mythical sub-second page load, but how many websites actually deliver sub-second response times and is it a realistic goal or expectation? The most popular websites on the web today do load quickly. For example, yahoo.com [...]
PHPBuilder.com: Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional
PHPBuilder.com has another in a series of book excerpts posted on their site today. This time, it’s a look at Ajax and PHP as pulled from the Apress book “Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional”. The ability to make a call to the server without a page refresh is one that is quite [...]
The Shrek Model of Web Design
Websites are like onions, you see, since websites have layers. And ogres are like onions, since ogres have layers. Websites are designed by web designers. Ergo – web designers are like ogres. So, let’s explore why web designers are like ogres. Firstly, let’s see why we say that websites are like onions, with layers, in [...]
10-step plan for effective website design
If you are thinking about creating a website, there are a number of key principles you should consider before setting out. If you follow this simple ten-step plan, you will be well on your way to sharing your creation with the World Wide Web community. 1. Choose a HTML Editor Before you can begin designing [...]
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. [...]
Google SEO Basics for Beginners
IntroductionAs many of us web developers already know, Google is rated by many as the number one search engine in the world. We personally know that our websites get about 90% of their search engine traffic direct from Google searches.Getting indexed by Google can be a pain, but getting highly placed rankings for specific keywords [...]
