In the article, “What Screen Resolution Do You Design For? Using the Less Framework,” Michael Rohde discusses the Less Framework, “a cross-device CSS grid system based on using inline media queries.” Simply put, the framework recognizes the visitors screen resolution and sizes your web page accordingly.
Subjects: Designing for Mobile Devices, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
Marc Plotz has written a useful and interesting article, “Ten Awesome Things Most People Don’t Know About PHP.” Even though I have been using PHP for years, it was a useful read for me.
Author: Marc Plotz | Source: HTML Goodies | Subjects: PHP, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
Aaron Martin at Lifehacker offers some useful tips for “How to Get More Plus out of Notepad++“
Subject: Platform & Development Tools
HowToMakeAWebsite.net has compiled 100 ways you can increase your website traffic.
Subject: Marketing Your Site
New to SEO? Need to polish up your knowledge? seomoz.org’s The Beginner’s Guide to SEO provides comprehensive information you need to get on the road to professional quality SEO. Chapters include:
Chapter 1: How Search Engines Operate
Chapter 2: How People Interact With Search Engines
Chapter 3: Why Search Engine Marketing is Necessary
Chapter 4: The Basics of Search Engine Friendly Design & … [ Read more ]
Subject: Marketing Your Site
I wrote separately about Payvment, a hosted payment solution that also allows you to create a storefront on Facebook. I haven’t done too much research on other hosted payment options, but here are a few I am aware of. Please use the comments feature to let us know of any others.
E-junkie provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you sell downloads
Subject: E-Commerce
There is much to be said about merchant accounts, one of the core requirements for deploying an e-commerce solution on your server. But, that will have to wait. For now, you may be interested in Payments-R-Us, a site which aims to offer you guidance and advice on choosing merchant account providers. The site allows you to compare vendors and pricing, is free, and claims … [ Read more ]
Subject: E-Commerce
A TechCrunch article has the following to say about Payvment:
Payvment was originally developed as a web service that would allow any site owner to integrate a shopping cart into their e-commerce offering. You can add the technology to your site by simply adding one line of code to the site. Payvment’s Facebook App is more comprehensive and lets anyone create a … [ Read more ]
Subject: E-Commerce
It’s a problem we would all like to have. Your site gets mentioned on a very influential blog, such as TechCrunch or Lifehacker, or on a site like Digg and all of a sudden you are inundated with visitors. Unfortunately, your budget webhost setup is not ready or able to handle that influx and so all those visitors are greeted with a page not found … [ Read more ]
Subject: Configuring and Administering Your Server
In the article, “Five Things to Think About Before You Launch Your Next Website,” Jonathan Kranz encourages you to consider the following points:
Author: Jonathan Kranz | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
Tal.ki is a forum product from Lefora. Just grab the embed link, put it on your website and you’ve got a forum. And users don’t have to create accounts – they can sign in via a variety of services like Facebook, Twitter. Google, Yahoo or OpenID.
Subject: Useful Code, Tips & Tools
Web developers who are just getting started often ask, “How can I upload images using PHP” The Web Developer How To – Upload Images Using PHP tutorial looks at the basics and shows you how you can install such a script on your website.
Source: HTML Goodies | Subjects: Graphics and Images, PHP, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. It complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can … [ Read more ]
Subjects: PHP, Security, Useful Code, Tips & Tools
HTML elements are positioned the same way they are written in the HTML code, from top to bottom and left to right. Elements displayed this way are called static elements. CSS positioning allows you to position HTML elements anywhere you want on the screen. These can positioned in a fixed location or flow with the screen as the browser window size … [ Read more ]
Subjects: CSS, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
In a TechCrunch guest post, Fliqz CEO Benjamin Wayne reveals some of the secrets of using video to help boost the search results rankings of your website.
Subject: Marketing Your Site
Proper use of image compression can make a huge difference in the appearance and size of your website image files. But compression is an often-misunderstood topic, partly because there’s a real lack of understanding on what the different types of compression are good for. If you don’t understand which type of compression to use for different types of images, you’ll … [ Read more ]
Subjects: Graphics and Images, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
In 2009, more than 63 million people in the United States accessed the Internet from a mobile device. It’s forecast that by 2013 there will be more than 1.7 billion mobile Internet users worldwide. With those kinds of numbers, it’s imperative that web designers and developers learn optimal development and design practices for mobile devices.
For the most part you won’t need to learn any new technologies … [ Read more ]
Subjects: Designing for Mobile Devices, Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
Here are some useful online tools to help you work on color issues for your site:
Subject: Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.)
Offering a PDF Option for Your Pages
If you want to offer your site visitors a PDF of a page, PDFmyURL might be a good option. On the PDFmyURL site, click the “Advanced Options” (on the right), and you’ll learn how to pull off PDF production without even visiting the site, embed advanced options, and even run PDFmyURL from your own server.
Alternatively, I recently had … [ Read more ]
Subjects: Site Design (Architecture, Coding, UI, etc.), Useful Code, Tips & Tools
In an article titled, “WordPress Performance: Speed Up a Slow WordPress!,” Canonical SEO offers an easy way, originally proposed by Jim Morgan on WebmasterWorld.com, for many WordPress sites to use .htaccess to achieve noticeable gains in site performance instantly without installing a WordPress caching plugin.
Subject: Configuring and Administering Your Server