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Usability and the utility, not visual design, determine success or failure of a web-site. Since visitor page is only person who clicks mouse therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become standard approach for successful profit-oriented Link: 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine Sent from BlueOrganizer
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Usually handing forms involves coding the form in HTML and performing client and server side validation, which usually makes the code for complex forms quite unwieldy. Zend_Form which is available in Zend Framework version 1.5 aims at simplifying this process. You can now create and add methods for validating form fields completely in Zend_Form. Here’s [...]
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Here’s a PHP script from Leon Chevalier which improves your page load time drastically. His compressor class improves your site’s performance by combining and minifying the css, Javascript and HTML files on the page, allowing for fewer HTTP requests and smaller sizes of these files. All you need to do is to download the class [...]
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Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website. The points covered in this are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups [...]
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Google has released a beta version of Google Gears which is an open source browser extension which enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs. Here’s what you can do with the API’s: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve [...]
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Want to create cool Web2.0 UI’s? You can use Apatana to create these using the Yahoo UI Library. Aptana provides you the IDE to create UI components with YUI and provides you with code complete facilities to do this too ! Check the link below to get started. Aptana also provides the same functionality for [...]
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An interesing article which explains what can go wrong when you’re handing UTF-8 character sets in PHP. The current versions of PHP do mangle up UTF-8 characters when you use the built in string functions in PHP. “When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, [...]
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Looking around for a good IDE to code HTML, CSS and Javascript? Look no further… Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and [...]
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IBM has an interesting article which outlines some common database problems which PHP programmers encounter. “Discover five common database problems that occur in PHP applications — including database schema design, database access, and the business logic code that uses the database — as well as their solutions. You can create database design, database access, and [...]
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Justin Silverton has some tips over at his blog on how to improve performance of OO PHP code. “The following tips can help in optimizing object-orientated PHP. 1. Initialise all variables before use. 2. Dereference all global/property variables that are frequently used in a method and put the values in local variables if you plan [...]
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