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Adding Flash 4 to your website
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | Internet |
Macromedia has taken the internet world by storm with its introduction of Flash a few years ago. What started as an animation tool has evolved into a full website development tool. After clinching several deals with major supporters like Microsoft and AOL the flash plugin is now standard on most browsers and is installed on 80% of them worldwide. What this means to you is that if you build it surfers will come. After reading this article you should have a better understanding of how Flash ...› Continue reading
Application Development
Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | Internet |
An Application is a computer program that is able to perform certain specific functions. Some conventional application include the word processors we use and even the email software. Web applications are advanced software applications. You can access these applications only through the Internet. Unlike the conventional applications, web applications are not loaded on local computer systems. Web applications are still not as advanced as the old applications but they are soon gaining popularity. ...› Continue reading
Freelance PHP MySQL programmers wanted ? Indian Web Developer on
Friday, November 28th, 2008 | Internet |
b> Freelance web designers, web developers, freelance PHP MySQL programmers group to provide web services to client sites. Cheapest web design development available at lowest price. Starting quote is US $ 100. Our web development charges are US $ 5 / hour. Click the following Link to know in details :- Freelance PHP MySQL Programmers for OUTSOURCING Do you want a Freelance Web Developer , Freelance Web Designer for static and dynamic website and web services development using Java ( J2EE ...› Continue reading
Mambo Website Design & Development - Make Your Site Web 2.0 Compliant
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | Internet |
Mambo is an easy-to-use open source content management system. Its simple web interface helps you to create and manage your website in an effective manner. In this highly competitive online business atmosphere, you can have an extra edge with a website equipped with the latest features like advanced templates and robust application programming interface (API) - all these and more that Mambo comes featuring with. If your website is complex, Mambo CMS is definitely the need. With the help ...› Continue reading
Examining the Substance of Studio MX
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | Internet |
To all web designers out there, this article is for you! I guess you already heard about Studio MX (I think so!) ' the ideal bundle for professional web designers, bringing together Dreamweaver MX for page design, Flash MX for animation and interactivity, and Fireworks MX for editing and optimizing graphics. With all these components, it certainly provides professional functionality for every aspect of web development. I must say that the integration between the individual products is generally ...› Continue reading
An affordable web site design and development services
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | Internet |
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How to republish RSS feeds on your website
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | Technology |
In this article I am going to cover some tools that you can use that will allow you to publish RSS feeds on your site. This will allow you to have fresh, updated content on your site and you have control of what sort of content you display and how often it is updated. First off if you do not know much about RSS or feel you require more information take a look at this RSS publishers FAQ and then rejoin us again later. There are several ways you can go about publishing RSS content, two of ...› Continue reading
PHP Scripts Don't Have to End in .PHP
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | Computers |
PHP Scripts Don't Have to End in .PHP By Robert Plank If you tweak your site to perform better in search rankings then you practice the science of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It's possible to start using PHP scripts on your site without losing that high ranking of yours. You've probably noticed your site rise and fall in search engine rankings quite a bit. That's just how it goes since search engines such as Google like to change their algorithms around. If one day you decide to rename ...› Continue reading
Accepting Payments on Your Website
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | Technology |
Accepting the most common payment processors like Pay Pal and using "shopping cart" scripts like Zen Cart make payments easy for your customers. But not all web hosts offer the same features and some make integrating payment options into your website easy and others make it quite frustrating for you and your customers. Your web host should let you work with which ever payment option you feel the most comfortable with and make setting up and maintaining it easy. Not all web hosts can handle the ...› Continue reading
Using Automated Scripts to Improve Web Site Productivity
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | Technology |
There are two types of web sites on the Internet. The die hard SEO managers still favor static pages, because they are easier to crawl and more visible to search engines, and it is fairly easy to add a few hundred pages to a website by copying and pasting or creating a template. The new trend is to use content management systems like Mambo or PHPNuke, but these dynamic systems can cause optimization problems. Even the simplest CMS, content management system, requires extensive knowledge of ...› Continue reading
"The Power Of CGI Scripts"
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | Business |
Learning to install and use CGI scripts on your website can open up a whole new realm of possibilities for you. CGI scripts can be used for many important everyday tasks like: 1) Sales 2) Subscriptions 3) Tracking of e-book downloads 4) Recommendations 5) and many more. The simple mention of the term CGI is enough to raise the hairs on the back of the neck for most webmasters including some of the seasoned pros. Not to fear...there are a lot of great recourses available to help walk you ...› Continue reading
Making Money with Web Designs - The Basics
Friday, November 21st, 2008 | Internet |
Making Money with Web Designs - The Basics Web development covers a diverse range of professions such as designers, programmers, system analysts, technical writers, search engine optimizers, database managers and animators, just to name a few. Web development involves the creation of applications that run on the World Wide Web. These applications are fundamentally categorized as three tiered applications. The first tier or level is the web browsers such as Netscape Navigator, ...› Continue reading
Maguma Workbench 2.6 Now Available!
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | Internet |
Maguma Workbench 2.6 Now Available! Maguma announces the release of Maguma Workbench 2.6.0, the IDE for PHP and Python, which brings with it a greatly simplified licensing system, that will get users up and running very quickly without hassle. This update addresses a few issues that cropped up in version 2.5 and is a free upgrade from version 2.5 Other fixes include: Ctrl-drag copy behavior fixed (the behaviour now appropriately copies and places the selected code to the new area). Right-click ...› Continue reading
Offshore Software Development
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | Internet |
Offshore Software Development Offshore Software development is a highly technical and skilled job. To develop software in-house requires time, skilled manpower. Offshore Software development is a cost effective alternative to developing software in-house. Offshore development and Offshore Programming aims at providing client's satisfaction and focuses at new development specifications with very high levels of security. Offshore software development provides you with immediate short-term access ...› Continue reading
Smart Url Redirecting
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Marketing |
If you are an internet marketer or promoter or run a mailing campaign, you work hard to provide your clients with the best resources and bargains on the internet. If this is the case, then you are aware of how negative it can be for you and your reputation to send clients to a broken link advertisement or a to a website that never opens and only creates an "error" message. A solution for this is to get an application for your business that constantly checks the database for the availability ...› Continue reading
Make Subscribing to RSS and Atom easier!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
I've stumbled across a pretty cool script that makes the process of subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds a snap. quickSub is a javascript function that allows users to subscribe to feeds in one click by rolling their mouse over a button or link and selecting their preferred aggregator. This is a great utility for any webmaster who is offering content feeds to their visitors. To see an example of the script in action, go to quickSub's homepage. About the author: You have probably wanted a service ...› Continue reading
SVG and Flash as the same species
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
We can name several technologies for displaying 2D interactive vector graphics on the web however, two names rises among other contenders. These are the Macromedia's Shock Wave Flash (SWF) and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Unlike Flash SVG is not for sale. Adobe's SVG browser plug-in has achieved barely around 10% penetration, compared to Macromedia's 90% for the Flash plug-in. Flash has already established an outstanding standard nevertheless, this did ...› Continue reading
Benefits of making your website accessible to disabled users -
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is regarded as a service and therefore falls under this law. Some organisations are changing their websites, but many are seemingly not making the adjustments. Disabled people don't access their website, they say, so why should they care? The statistics on the number of users who may face difficulties in using your website are however quite startling: 'There are 8.6 million ...› Continue reading
DHTML-Introduction
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Think of DHTML as not a singular technology but a combination of three existing technologies glued together by the Document Object Model (DOM): 1. HTML - For creating text and image links and other page elements. 2. CSS - Style Sheets for further formatting of text and html plus other added features such as positioning and layering content. 3. JavaScript - The programming language that allows you to accesses and dynamically control the individual properties of both HTML and Style Sheets.The way ...› Continue reading
PHP Redirect
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
A PHP Redirect automatically transfers a web user from one URL to another. For example, typing foo.com in the browser automatically transfers the user to another URL bar.com. The PHP Redirect command: <?php header("location: [some-url]"); ?> Replace [some-url] with the URL where you want the redirection to take place. For example, header("location: ./version2/index.html"); =>redirect to "index.html" page in subfolder called "version2" header("location: http://www.yahoo.com"); =>redirect ...› Continue reading
Using External Coding To Improve Search Engine Placement
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Do you have lots of JavaScript coding in the header section of your web pages? Do you re-list your CSS styles at the top of every page? Do you have JavaScript coding spread throughout your web pages? If you answered yes to any of these questions your site may be driving away search engine spiders and losing search engine position ranking. As you can imagine search engine spiders have a lot of pages to get through on the web when they are indexing sites. To improve their speed and efficiency ...› Continue reading
Using External JavaScript Source Files
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
By now most web designers and developers know that JavaScript causes a real headache for search engine spiders. There are however a number of scripts which, whilst not absolutely essential to the functioning of a site, are nevertheless very handy. So where do you draw the line between keeping your page as search engine friendly as possible and including reams of JavaScript to achieve the desired effects? You may be surprised to learn that there is an alternative which keeps search engine ...› Continue reading
Javascript popup status
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Javascript popup is currently one of the best methods for web advertising and catching the surfers attention. We will discuss in this article here the impact of javascript popups on various groups of people : 1.Advertisers :- The advertiser benefits the most because his message gets through to the end user. As simple as that. The advertiser(s) can create different types of pop-up windows which will have the advertising message displayed on it. These popups are not only effective with popup ...› Continue reading
How to display RSS feeds on your website.
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
h1>How to display RSS feeds on your website. This article is intended as a guide for webmasters who want to display automatically updated content on their website in the form of RSS feeds. In this article I will cover the easiest method to implement using javascript for displaying RSS on websites to create additional dynamic content. This will allow you to display headlines from syndicated content around the web on your website. RSS to Javascript. By far the easiest method is to use client ...› Continue reading
Does Javascript Affect Ranking?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Almost all SEO's agree that using too much javascript can harm your rankings and might confuse the search engines. Is it true? We decided to answer this extremely simple question for the two leading search engines using a simple statistical analysis. The methodology: I gathered the results of the queries that were naturally performed last month by myself and three associates using the two leading search engines and analyzed them. I had to visit each page and check the HTML source code to see ...› Continue reading
Equal Heights Three Column Layout With CSS
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
when designing multi-columed layout, most of us usually deal with the columns height difference by using background images, or many prefer calling it "faux column". but not long a go a fellow designer made a great web design tutorial on how to make an equal height two column css layout with a simple javascript. but his method requires javascript, it's not a bad thing. but i need a solution where no javascript would be required. so, i decided to make myself a css technique to achieve the same ...› Continue reading
Web Site Scripts - Web Development
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Web developing is becoming a booming industry nowadays. More and more people are attracted to PHP and ASP scripts to simplify or modify their existing websites as well as new development projects. Webmasters now prefer dynamic websites, which can take their own decisions and work out according to the situations, which arises. There was a time when we used to play around with static HTML pages, but now those days are gone. Even a newbie who steps on the internet to become a webmaster or a web ...› Continue reading
How to Use SSI Includes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Using SSI Includes can help you save a lot of time in developing your website. A simple code snippet like the one found here at this page http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/articles/ssi_include.htm can be placed anywhere. The anything.htm, used here for an example in the page above, can be used as a menu all across your entire website. This allows you to change every menu on every page that has this code by simply changing the anything.htm page. In order to use an SSI Include you have to be ...› Continue reading
How to use SQLXML to retrieve data from SQL server database?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Using SQL Server 2000 and above versions you can retrieve data from SQL Server in XML format directly from the database. Many XML related features were incorporated in the SQL Server database. This enables the development of XML enabled applications very easy and it makes exchange of data over internet easy. In this article we will discuss about how to use SQLXML to retrieve data directly from SQL server database in XML format. There are some SQL commands and clauses that help you to retrieve ...› Continue reading
CASCADING STYLE SHEETS AND SERVER SIDE INCLUDES
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Highlight: Below, first we learn how to define individual tags with multiple definitions using the Cascading Style Sheets, and then we learn how to include common components on multiple web pages with minimum effort. We packed up with external Cascading Style Sheets in the previous section, and I had mentioned like a sage that their could be a point in your life when you would like to implement different CSS definitions for different sections of the same HTML page. I understand that as you go ...› Continue reading
Understanding XML Server
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
XML Server can be a Web Server that stores the XML files in it and serves them on demand. The XML Server would have processing capabilities with an XML engine and to transform the XML document to other forms. Basically a server which hosts and serves the XML documents is called a XML Server. There are many commercially available XML Servers in the market. The popular among them are the Tamino Server, the Sonic Server and the FDX XML Server. Though the basic functions of these servers are same ...› Continue reading
SSL System
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
SSL bend down come from "Secure Sockets Layer". Which is protocol which increase security in recieve or send data pass linadge system. It make we can send a data which is secret such as password or credit card number throght linadge system with has sucuriting. In that way sender and reciever not who in linadge system can load secret data for used too. A duty of protocol is... 1. Certify server say real server: client program with has capable in ssl communication will can certifying the server ...› Continue reading
Server Load Balancing: Introduction
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Why is load balancing of servers needed? If there is only one web server responding to all the incoming HTTP requests for your website, the capacity of the web server may not be able to handle high volumes of incoming traffic once the website becomes popular. The website's pages will load slowly as some of the users will have to wait until the web server is free to process their requests. The increase in traffic and connections to your website can lead to a point where upgrading the server ...› Continue reading
Simplify Site Maintenance with SSI
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
© 2004, John Calder http://www.TheEzine.net Server Side Includes (SSI), for many marketers, are a bit like the U.S. National Security Agency - it's something you've heard of, but you don't understand completely what they do. In this article, rather than bore you with the technical details, let's just take a look at the benefits and drawbacks of implementing SSI on your site, to see if learning the technical details is worth the trouble. SSI has several capabilities, but for our purposes, we ...› Continue reading
Using SSI's to Ease Site Maintenance
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Before building a site, every webmaster has to make a decision on what layout method to use. Most seem to go with either a frame or a table-based layout, the latter being more popular in these days. While both of these have their advantages and disadvantages, a frame-based site is usually easier to update. If you happen to have a 200-page site with the same navigation on every page, adding one link to the navigation menu might require you to edit all of the pages if the design is built ...› Continue reading
Use Server Side Includes To Ease Your Workload
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
I'm all for making things as easy as possible. The whole idea in business, and life, is to work smarter not harder. When designing websites, I not only want to create them with as little effort as possible, but I also want to make maintaining them easy. One way to do this is with Server Side Includes (SSI). SSI's are an easy way to add or update content to one or more web pages on a site. One way I use SSI's is for the copyright on my pages. By changing the year in one file, it changes the ...› Continue reading
Understanding Custom Server Controls in ASP.NET
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Understanding Custom Server Controls in ASP.NET ASP.NET offers many server controls for the developers to create web applications. However, at some point of development time when the developer does not get the control they want, they can create a new server control. This new server control can be called ASP.NET Custom Server Controls or user control. The basic difference between a ASP.NET Custom Server Controls and a user control is that unlike a user control that does not appear in the ...› Continue reading
Website Updates are a SNAP With Server Side Includes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
If you ever had to make a change to your website that needed to be carried onto every page, you know what a tedious job it is.Well, have I got news for you. It doesn't have to be. Welcome to the world of Server Side Includes, also known as SSI. The best part about SSI is that it will make your life as a site owner 'oh so sweet.' You're going to want to kiss me after I give you the lowdown on this little beauty. Let me give you an example. Let's say you have a site with over 50 pages and you ...› Continue reading
Ajaxgear Toolkit
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
AjaxGear is a toolkit that allows you to take advantage of the client-side technique known as AJAX. AJAX is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It uses the XMLHttpRequest object to allow a Web browser to make asynchronous call to the Web server without the need to refresh the whole page. AjaxGear powers this website and has been tested and compatible with Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher and Mozilla Firefox 1.5. As AjaxGear evolves, new features will be demonstrated on this site. As ...› Continue reading
Update Your Entire Website Instantly Using Server Side Includes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Imagine my plight... I have 100+ pages on my website and I have to change my e-mail address and the copyright info on all the pages. The reason... My mail box is over-flown with junk mails. My only option is to edit all my web pages offline and then upload each one of them again, not to mention countless errors I make in the process. 100+ pages is still a small website. Imagine what it will be like if my website had 1000+ pages? Sounds scary right? If you would like to avoid the kind of mess ...› Continue reading
About Web Forms in .NET Framework
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
About Web Forms in .NET Framework Web pages in ASP.Net are called ASP.NET Web Forms which have certain server controls such as text, dropdown list, checkboxes, and buttons. An ASP.NET Web Form looks similar to the web forms in HTML. The only difference is that in ASP.NET, the Web Forms runs at the server side and in HTML the web forms runs at the client side. Apart from this difference an ASP.NET Web Form has more features than an ordinary HTML web form such as: ' The code blocks are ...› Continue reading
Designing your website with change in mind.
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
We all know that our websites seem to take of live of their own. As your site grows updating pages becomes more and more of a task. This is where server side includes (SSI) can make your site updates a lot easier and requires a lot less effort. Visualize your page layout in sections. Most pages Usually contain a top (header) section, a navigation system, content, and then a footer (containing copyright info and date). Using server side includes you can maintain each section in a separate file ...› Continue reading
Importance of SSL and Digital certificates for vendors and customers
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Shopping |
Secure Sockets Layer, which is also known as "SSL certificates", is the standard security technology for creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. Before the introduction of SSL it was difficult to ensure privacy over the web in online transactions. Digital certificates are used with the most popular security protocol on the Internet. Without this encryption, packets of data travel networks in full view. The secured socket layer (SSL) technology provides strong encryption ...› Continue reading
SSL Security and why it's so important for your business
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Shopping |
SSL stands for secure socket layer. This is what is used in making transactions on the internet secure. Many companies use ssl "secure socket layer" to encrypt important information. This could be for when people log into a website, use forms, securing shopping carts, etc. Now I'm sure you may be wondering where to find a company that provides ssl "secure socket layer?" I find godaddy a inexpensive way to purchase a ssl "secure socket layer" for any business. Some helpful tips on purchasing a ...› Continue reading
SSL Certificates........ Necessity for Educational Websites, Colleges and Universities
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Educational organizations are one of the major segments, which need to maintain unswerving, outmoded and highly secure system, which can protect sensitive & Personal data of the students and others who are attached to it. Why does an educational website need SSL Certificate? It should ensure the safety and security of the data shared online. Any educational website would need the SSL certificate as - * It process sensitive data such as address, birth date, license, or ID numbers. * To gain ...› Continue reading
Why SSL is not enough to secure your credit card details
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
SSL (secure sockets layer) is the security technology everyone uses to ensure that their web connections are secure. An SSL connection is symbolized by a padlock icon in the right-hand side of the taskbar and a URL that starts with 'https', the 's' standing for a secure http connection. What trust, however, should users associate with SSL? Confidentiality SSL uses a method known as public key authentication in order to provide the confidential link between the server and the client computer. ...› Continue reading
What is a security certificate?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
I'll bet one time or another you've surfed the web and suddenly found a pop-up window in front of you, demanding your approval for a security certificate. I occasionally see these on shopping sites, usually the smaller, less-well-funded companies. The first time I saw one of these windows I had no idea what to do. What the heck is a security certificate? And whatever it is, why is the browser asking me about it? I mean, I had enough questions about ActiveX controls, now I was being asked ...› Continue reading
E-Commerce Made Easy
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Shopping |
INTRODUCTION What does it take for small and home-based businesses to get started with e-commerce? My goal is to answer this question and to give you information that allows you to get started with selling your products and services on the Internet. The benefits of e-commerce are plentiful; the most important ones being: increasing sales revenues while expanding a company's customer base and offering services to allow customers to shop at their convenience around the clock and independent ...› Continue reading
Cold Fusion In The World Of Web Hosting
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
These days more and more Internet web designers, website owners and programmers find themselves in a need for more versatile and less tedious mode of programming. The solution for the matter was the influx of Cold Fusion and cold fusion hosting, an advanced scripting language and hosting facility, which makes use of databases such as MS Access, Foxpro and Paradox. Taking a hint from its term, cold fusion hosting is a hosting feature which enables a fusion of most programming languages in a way ...› Continue reading
What is php?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. Syntax is very similar to that of Perl. PHP is very easy to understand. PHP supports the most common databases like Oracle, Sybase and MySQL. Integrating of external libraries to generate PDF documents or parsing XML PHP is an open-source language and is supported by large groups of developers. Php hosting became an important source of revenue for hosting provider companies in the recent decade. Php hosting is now required ...› Continue reading
Finding a Search Engine Friendly Content Management System
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
What is a Content Management System? A Content Management System (CMS) is a third party software application which allows web site administrators to add, update or delete content, photos, and documents to their web site in "real time". Many web sites are modified using these web-based tools as they require little to no knowledge of HTML or web scripting languages. CMS programs make it easy for a webmaster or site owner who does not know HTML or have access to a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What ...› Continue reading
Bring Your Web Site to Life With PHP
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a highly popular, server-side scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML coding. PHP can do anything that CGI can do, such as process form data and auto generate dynamic content, but PHP can do much more. It can be used on all major operating systems and supports most web servers. PHP is used by inserting PHP code inside your web page's HTML code. When the page is called, your server automatically executes the code. What's ...› Continue reading
Why Your Site Needs Fresh, Relevant Content
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
It is said that content is king, but today 'fresh, relevant content' is the master - or is it? Every owner of a commercial web site knows that frequent fresh content is needed on their pages in order to achieve and maintain a high listing on search engines which actively seek fresh content. Google sends out its 'freshbot' spider to gather and index new material from all the sites which offer it. MSN Search seeks it too. I've noticed that MSN Search's spider pays a daily visit to a site of mine ...› Continue reading
PHP Dummy Confesses How She Uses PHP For Internet Marketing
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Business |
PHP is a new scripting language originated in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf and stands for 'Personal Home Page Tools." In just 10 short years, this language has become a favorite of internet marketers and small business webmaster with newer and more stable versions of the language being developed as recently as July 2004. Why is PHP so popular? Before PHP, there was Javascript. Javascript does some really cool things like rotate ads, graphics, text but, unfortunately, it is simply not readable by ...› Continue reading
Beyond the Box with Googles Web API
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Google, the most popular, and many say best, search engine, offers searchers many options to help them zero in on just what they're looking for. Although these search modifier features are documented on own site, many searchers, including experienced marketers and technically savvy people, simple don't know these features are available. But these features, along with the Google search box, are only available to human searchers, who can type in their search parameters, and perhaps some ...› Continue reading
Force the download, hide the path
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Force the download, hide the path This is an article about providing downloads on a website. It describes common webmaster issues when it comes to file downloads and it will discuss several solutions. Some of them are easy to implement, others require a little technical background and programming skills. But in the end, everyone will have a suitable solution for his problem. If someone wants to provide a download on his website, one can find following instruction note beside the link: Right ...› Continue reading
Secure PayPal Processing - Protect Your Sales From Internet Thieves!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Shopping |
Statistic reveals that over 80 million people are using PayPal over the internet right now. If you are one of millions who use PayPal as a medium to accept payments and exchange money on the internet, you are exposing yourself to any potential fraud and theft from internet thieves. PayPal is the most popular way that lets anyone with an email address securely send and receive online payments using credit card or bank account. By nature, no online company is perfect and a major flaw is their ...› Continue reading
PHP: A functional tool to create dynamic web pages
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is used in Web development. Through PHP, you can create dynamic web pages that can be viewed by people over the World Wide Web. PHP is short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. IT is created and licensed by the PHP Group but it is considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation. When your browser opens a PHP-enabled web site, the pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you normally ...› Continue reading
A Beginners Guide to Server Side Includes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
An Introduction to Server Side Includes Beginner? That's OK! While much has been written about Server Side Includes (SSIs -also known as Virtual Includes) much of this information is designed for intermediate to advanced webmasters. This article is aimed at beginners. It is assumed that the reader has no prior knowledge of scripting languages, servers, or any other advanced computer skills. This article will introduce the reader to SSIs and explain how they are used in web site ...› Continue reading
How to Make your Content Management System / Web Portal more
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Most people who use a CMS/Portal do so because they are very simple to setup. A web site in a box so to speak. What 99% of the users dont know is that there are ways to make it more secure and less likely to be hacked durring the install process! What i am going to explain here is the simple change one can make durring the install to help keep the database secure! I will be using PostNuke CMS/Portal as my example! Most people take for granted that the information preloaded in the database setup ...› Continue reading
Interactive Features
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
If you really want people to be attracted to your web site time after time, you need to add interactivity. This can be as simple or as complicated as you want. It does not matter whether you are a beginner, an intermediate webmaster or the most advanced web designer around, you can add interactive elements to your web site. What is an interactive element? For the purposes of this section, I am defining it as a way to cause the visitor to a web site to interact with either other visitors or the ...› Continue reading
Making The Decision To Automate Your Software Testing
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Not every software testing project can or should be automated. Before your department accepts a new test automation project, you should establish a process by which projects are reviewed and either accepted or rejected. This can be done with a simple Test Automation Acceptance Checklist. Repeatable Test Cases with Static Data The true cost benefit of test automation is achieved only when the same scripts are executed multiple times. The first execution is very expensive because it includes the ...› Continue reading
What is Ajax?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
We were getting a number of querries from our clients and friends, asking about what AJAX is? With the development of Microsoft's Live, everyone is going crazy about AJAX. So, we at Xaprio Solutions thaught of publishing this small article about AJAX, which will help you guys understand it better. Like DHTML, LAMP, or SPA, Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together. In fact, derivative/composite technologies based substantially upon ...› Continue reading
Computer Geeks and Garden Gnomes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
First and foremost before I begin my ranting it is worth mentioning that there are many very helpful and considerate people out there in the cyber wilderness who devote much of their time to providing open source and free scripts of all variations from PHP, CGI and Java to name but a few. They provide dedicated support, do not insist on payment, and spend much of their free time helping you avoid having to part with your hard earned cash to get free programs and scripts up and running on your ...› Continue reading
DHTML or Flash?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
The last five years has seen an exponential growth in the use of shockwave and flash animations in creating websites. The old tried and trusted techniques such as D/HTML are slowy moving over to make room for this newer multimedia delivery vehicle. Scripting, such as Javascript, is viewed with disdain by some and ignored by others. Yet the people who advocate the use of flash/shockwave in creating multimedia-rich sites are not asking the right question: Is all that glitters gold?An important ...› Continue reading
Free ASP Scripts
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Active Server Pages or ASP, as it is more generally accredited, is technologies that enable you to make enthusiastic and interactive webpage. ASP Scripts uses server-side scripting to dynamically create a web page that is no pretentious by the any type of browser (as a Mozila, Internet explore, Safari, opera) the web site visitor is using. The evasion scripting language used for writing ASP is VBScript, even though you can use other scripting languages like Script (Microsoft's version of ...› Continue reading
How to Use Scripts
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Scripts are small pieces of code you install on your website to do very specific tasks, following a visitor's actions. The most common scripts for Webmasters are Javascripts and CGI scripts. Though they can perform many other useful functions, they are used best to gather information about the customer's shopping habits. For example, you can have a script that will pop open when visitors first arrive at your site inviting them to join your newsletter and receive a fr'ee course on a related ...› Continue reading
PHP & General Scripting
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
PHP is the most powerful server-side scripting language available on the internet. Based on the C core, PHP is remarkably easy to learn and code with. PHP is capable of performing insignificant tasks like collecting the users' browser agent. Yet it is strong enough to perform database entry operations and high-intensity database queries. PHP is available for nearly every web server and is free to use, unlike the proprietary ASP which has terrible syntax and costs money to use. PHP is the choice ...› Continue reading
Wireless Networks
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Wireless networks use radio waves instead of wires to transmit data between computers. Here's how: The Binary Code: 1s and 0s It's well known that computers transmit information digitally, using binary code: ones and zeros. This translates well to radio waves, since those 1s and 0s can be represented by different kinds of beeps. These beeps are so fast that they're outside the hearing range of humans. Morse Code: Dots And Dashes It works like Morse code, which is a way to transmit the alphabet ...› Continue reading
SCEA - Carving a well qualified J2EE Architect
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
SCEA - Carving a well qualified J2EE Architect Sun Microsystems offers many certifications starting from programmer level to architect level. SCEA (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect) certification is designed for enterprise architects responsible for building high scale enterprise applications or who wish to be prospective architects. The certification exam tests candidate's architectural knowledge in and out. A Software Architect is the technical boss of software systems and he should act ...› Continue reading
Speed up Your Application Development in Macromedia's ColdFusion
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Macromedia announced their release of Coldfusion's latest version on February 7, 2005. This latest version is ColdFusion MX 7.0 clearly offers several important new features and useful improvements on its existing ones. A major focus of this release is to target new ColdFusion developers and get them up to speed even faster than before. Before we go on about the solid and massive set of new capabilities that's imparted in the latest version of ColdFusion, let's get a grip on what this ...› Continue reading
INCREASE INTERNET SALES WITH FREE TRIALS
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Marketing |
If you're selling a product or service on the Internet, one of the best ways to increase your sales is by offering a free trial also known as a teaser, demo or limited version. By enabling your potential customers to review your product and providing them with an easy ordering process, you can increase your sales immensely. Free trials are not exclusive to software programs. There are many ways you can offer a free trial no matter what product or service you're offering. For example, if ...› Continue reading
MobileChilli - Worldwide Mobile Entertainment
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | News and Society |
LavaCards.com is pleased to launch it's new website - MobileChilli.com www.MobileChilli.com a Mobile entertainment service which enables the users to download mobile videos, polyphonic ringtones, mobile phone wallpapers, screensavers, operator logos, mobile java games, nokia themes, real sounds, avatars and much more spicy entertainment for their mobile. MobileChilli.com a Mobile Entertainment Software and Gaming Solutions company - a brand owned and managed by one of the world's popular ...› Continue reading
10 COMMANDMENTS OF WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
We keep hearing about something called 'accessibility' for websites. So what is it all about huh? Well, it is all about webmasters making sure that they give any disabled visitors who come to their site an equivalent experience to that which a non-disabled person would have. So, if your site has garish rainbow coloured text and is full of puerile nonsense, then you must inflict your garbage on disabled visitors (who probably have enough problems already) as well as the rest of us. How can you ...› Continue reading
What direction do you see the net going in?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
This last year, ecommerce has been all the rage. Going back a year or so, Java applets were hot. That is, the public perception of websites was that "good" websites had ecommerce, or Java applets on them. If we go back before the applets, say three years ago, streaming video, vivo, was the "hot" topic. There is not a lot of talk of streaming video anymore. It has been incorporated into the universe of web design, and has cooled considerably as a "hot" topic. This is mostly because people have ...› Continue reading
How to add random RSS content to your site
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
/p> Most savvy internet marketers will know how important it is to have fresh content added to their sites on a daily basis but the problem sometimes is to find the time and/or content. Adding an RSS feed is a good way to add fresh content to a site, but the problem again is that most of them only get updated on a weekly basis. I have been wracking my brains trying to find a semi- automated way to do this to make my life a little bit easier. The search engines are always looking for fresh ...› Continue reading
Debating on .Net Vs J2EE
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Debating on .Net Vs J2EE When Microsoft launched .Net, IT arena was flooded with questions and debates as to which technology is superior to other. The .Net vs. J2EE debate is still around. Both .Net and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) are development platforms to create web applications. However, the developer will prefer .Net Framework because it takes very short time in it to develop web applications. In J2EE, if any modification is required in Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) the entire ...› Continue reading
Introduction To Web Technologies
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
There are literally hundreds of difficult technologies available to the webmaster. Making proper use of these technologies allows the creation of maintainable, efficient and useful web sites. For example, using SSI (server side includes) or CSS (cascading style sheets) a webmaster can change every page on his web site by editing one file. A few of the more common technologies are listed below. ASP - Active Server Pages are used to perform server-side scripting. This is a way to get things done ...› Continue reading
Start Developing Your Own Software
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Learning how to program software seems like a daunting task fit only for the geeks and nerds who lock themselves away in dark rooms staring at their monitors for days on end as they pour over thick manuals written largely in zeros and ones. Fortunately the reality is that it's not as complicated to make basic applications as people may think. If it were, the majority of nerds wouldn't be doing it because the defining factor of our kind is an inherent laziness. Why do you think we ...› Continue reading
Learning ASP Series -- Your First ASP Page
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
ASP pages (Active Server Pages page sounds a bit melodramatic but its easier to refer to them like this) are nothing but web pages. The difference is that they have an extension .ASP and you write the code in a Server Side Scripting language. Do we know what's Server Side Scripting? This doesn't actually matter if we delve into such nitty-gritty, but let's sound a bit philosophically intellectual. Now, there are two sorts of scripting languages: Server Side (the hosting server where all the ...› Continue reading
Daffodil DB
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
b>What is a Web Database? A web database is a database for the internet. You can get access to your data via the internet from anywhere in the world. Or, you can create a database driven website by using such databases. A web database stores large amount of information in an organized format that is easily accessible from scripting languages (like PHP). In web databases, modifications, like the ones constantly used by e-commerce sites, for example, can be performed without any hassles .That ...› Continue reading
Google and Sun - a partnership to kill Microsoft or a deal with
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Business |
As you have probably already heard, Google and Sun have partnered up to distribute the Google Toolbar with Sun's Java. While this may seem like a minor deal in the grand scheme of things, upon further reflection I find this could be the deal which will ultimately break Microsoft. While the implications could be huge and far reaching, only Google knows for sure what it wants. We can speculate however and that's what this article is all about. Is such a deal good for Sun (and Google) or is it a ...› Continue reading
A Recursive Filtering Workbench in Java
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
A Recursive Filtering Workbench The complete collection of installments presents and explains the code for an interactive Recursive Filtering Workbench that can be used to design, experiment with, and evaluate the behavior of digital recursive filters. By the end of the last installment, you should have learned how to write a Java program to create such a workbench. Hopefully, you will also have gained some understanding of what recursive filters are, how they behave, and how they fit into the ...› Continue reading
SCJP 5.0 - Carving a well qualified Java Tiger Programmer
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
SCJP 5.0 - Carving a well qualified Java Tiger Programmer Sun Microsystems offers many certifications starting from programmer level to architect level. The latest version of programmer (SCJP) exam is SCJP 5.0 - Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (CX-310-055). Sun started calling SCJP 5.0 instead SCJP 1.5 from this new version. Achieving this certification provides clear evidence that a programmer understands the basic syntax and structure of the Java ...› Continue reading
Cross-Platform Custom Software Development & Integration - IT
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Microsoft Business Solutions products: Great Plains, MS CRM, Navision, Axapta, MS RMS integration with UNIX/Java based platforms & non-Microsoft applications: Oracle, Lotus Notes/Domino, DBII, PeopleSoft, SAP The history of software application development indicates that global trends to unification might be reversed in the future. If you take a look at C programming language, intended as cross platform solution (which resolves graphical interface cross platform migration). Later on java was ...› Continue reading
Free Java Script Tutorial
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
This tutorial will take you bit by bit through the fundamentals of JavaScript. You will learn how to write functions, use data from text boxes, create conditionals function loops, and generally make your web page "Java tutorial" classes for a living to commercial clients of all levels. I have well-read a lot about communication between people of various levels of computer experience. This tutorial assumes that you have no preceding programming experience, but that you have created your own HTML ...› Continue reading
Take Advantage of Simple JavaScript Optimization
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Coding projects, anyone? Well, if you find yourself buried in some such projects like this either a small and simple one or a really large one, then JavaScript is here to the rescue. You might find that JavaScript optimization has special significance for you to salvage you from daunting prospects of a coding project. We understand that coding can be sometimes frustrating enough ' thus, we advise you, be organized! Take advantage of JavaScript optimization! Being organized has its positive ...› Continue reading
Size Does Matter!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Marketing |
In this article we will take a look at why you should keep your web page(s) size small. As any good webmaster knows you should keep the web page size small, but why? It's really simple, both search engine spiders and the visitors hate web pages that take forever to load because it's harder to spider the web page or for the visitor they just don't have the time to wait for your web page to come up, after all most web sites are not that great of a resource, so why wait for the web page to load ...› Continue reading
Java Games for Your Cell Phone
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Are you one of those people who get tired when standing in queue? Can't stop multitasking no matter what you do? Maybe you need to download some games for your cell phone. Java games are based on a very skinny programming language, and have surprisingly great functionality even on a limited tool like your cellphone. Today's cell phones are multifunctional organizational tools, you can use them to entertain yourself, and you can personalize them as a fashion or personal style statement. But a ...› Continue reading
Virtual Methods & Polymorphism in C#
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Virtual methods allow object oriented languages to express polymorphism.This means that a derived class can write a method with the same signature as a methd in its base class, and the bas class will call the derived class's method.By default in java, all methods are virtual. In C# like c++, the virtual keyword is needed to specify that a method should override a method (or implementaion an abstract method) of its base class. Class B { public virtual void foo () {} } ClassD : B { public ...› Continue reading
Why Sun Java Certification?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Java is the most widely used technology worldwide. Understanding the Java language has become a necessity in today's IT world. Java is quickly becoming the technology of the incoming world and about 70% of business entities' development projects are done through J2EE. To keep up with such a rapid growth, a java professional endlessly requires skills upgradation and certifications. Acquiring a Sun Java certification is a justification for higher compensation and promotions. Sun Java ...› Continue reading
Choose your java wisely...
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Java has come along a long way. Many would agree with this. I did not until the Java 1.5 'Tiger' hit me. The tiger had several new features, and more importantly, it has new syntax. Six major upgrades that the tiger presents are certainly the generics, enhanced for loop, autoboxing (unboxing), improvement on Typesafe enum, Static import and the metadata. Out of these six, at least four would be used in my daily 'programming' life. Of course there are many more, which can be found at ...› Continue reading
Understanding the Pros and Cons of .Net and Java
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Understanding the Pros and Cons of .Net and Java .Net and Java are said to be the two widely used development environment to build web applications. It is very difficult to predict as to who will emerge the winner, but the clear indication is there that the large enterprises who have been using Java for a long time or the enterprises who use different platforms, will surely continue their relationship with Java. As far as .Net is concerned, the enterprises who have Windows platform and who is ...› Continue reading
Java tips & tutorials - best resources for learning Java
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
If you are a beginner when it comes to the Java programming language or even if you are an experienced programmer looking for some new tips&tricks, the best thing to do, and which has the advantage of being absolutely free of charge, is to search the Internet for Java tips and Java tutorials. Try this instead of buying one or two books, and you are going to be impressed by the quantity of information you'll find available about the domain. This is the easiest way to access tons of Java ...› Continue reading
WML
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
WML: Getting Your Wireless Site Online Three Simple Steps How To View Wireless Sites Using a PC's Browser WAP Search Engines WML Validators The presence of the wireless / mobile / hand-held world is becoming more apparent daily. With the introduction of WML (wire less markup language) and the creation of WAP (wireless application protocol) several years ago, the ability of having not only a web site, but also a wireless web site is a reality. Actually, with the never ending advances in ...› Continue reading
WAP for Webmasters
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
What is WAP? The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a standard technology that enables Cellular Phones to connect to the Internet and view stripped down Web Pages and Services. WAP uses similar concepts to the desktop Internet we are all familiar with. The Cellular Phone has embedded WAP Micro-Browser software capable of displaying WML (Wireless Markup Language). The user enters the URL of a WAPSite into the Micro-Browser and this request is forwarded to a WAP Gateway. The WAP ...› Continue reading
PHP in a Nutshell
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
If you have spent the better part of the last few years on the Internet, you may have already chanced upon the term PHP. You may have even encountered the definition: "a server-side scripting language". But what exactly does it mean? And more importantly, what use can it be to you as an aspiring Web developer or Web designer? Going back to the definition for a little while, PHP is indeed a server-side scripting language that is typically used in the creation of dynamic Web pages. It is a ...› Continue reading
Windows vs Linux
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
The Basics of Linux & Windows : Linux (and its close relation Unix) and Windows 2000 (and its close cousin Windows NT) are types of software (known as operating systems) that web servers use to do the kind of things that web servers do. You do not need to know any real detail of either to make a decision as to which you need but here a few guidelines. Just because you use a windows desktop PC doesn't mean you have to opt for Windows web hosting (and the reverse is true as well). The operating ...› Continue reading
Getting Started with ASP.NET Classes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Getting Started with ASP.NET Classes The class is an object-oriented programming term to refer to a data structure that describes an object or a data member. The .Net Framework has an exclusive set of class libraries such as data access, XML support, directory services, regular expression, and queuing support. The data access class library provides data access ASP.NET Classes to connect to SQL Server or any OLEDB provider. The XML support class library has XML Classes the go beyond ...› Continue reading
Introducing Really Simple Syndication in ASP.NET
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Introducing Really Simple Syndication in ASP.NET Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML standard for declaring content entries for small content feeds. The RSS format has gained popularity over the years due to its simplicity. The XML file formatted according to the RSS specification is either found as a physical file or is obtained via a Web site that handles the request and sends the content over the Internet to the client. The RSS format is as given below The XML format for RSS declares ...› Continue reading
Syndicate Your Headlines Using RSS
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
RSS is quickly becoming the standard choice for delivering syndicated web content. Have you ever wondered how some of the large content sites deliver their headlines? Or, have you ever wanted to display news headlines, but didn't want to display the standard "Content Provided By..." info? Or, have you ever wanted to syndicate your own content? RSS may be the answer you've been looking for. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. It is a XML format specifically designed to share content. Netscape ...› Continue reading
Implementing a Content Management System (CMS) for your website
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Content Management describes the process of easily creating, managing and publishing online content with neither programming nor technical skills. What is a CMS? Content Management describes the process of easily creating, managing and publishing online content with neither programming nor technical skills. Easy and effective content management is achieved through the deployment of a Content Management System (CMS) that is either custom built or purchased as an off-the-shelf solution. ...› Continue reading
"LAMP" - What is it?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
The term "LAMP" on the Internet stands for free software programs that are usually grouped together and are used to run dynamic websites or website servers. The components of this acronym are the following: (L) Linux - is the operating system. It has become very popular as an open license operating system. It is UNIX-like in structure, but does not contain any UNIX code since the UNIX operating system is not free software. (A) Apache - is the Web server. It is an open license server and is ...› Continue reading
How to Install a CGI Script and Increase Web Site Interactivity
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
You may have delayed cgi script installation due the apparently complex process. Well, I avoided it also for several years, however if you want to increase your web site's interactivity it's a necessity to know how to do it. It's not hard to learn and you don't have to be a programmer. What is CGI ? Common Gateway Interface or CGI is a program that can interact with an html form on your web site, and processes the results on your server using a cgi script. The result generated is a dynamic web ...› Continue reading
Emailing Form Input Using ASP
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Writing |
Everybody uses online forms these days, whether to get user feedback or to get orders. They present your visitors with a means to convey their message to you. Most of the webmasters prefer using CGI scripts for processing and emailing form inputs. Such scripts are copiously available, mostly free, at various free-scripts resources on the Net. Most of CGI happens in Perl, so you gotta be in friendly terms with the scripting language in order to fine tune the form-handling script according to ...› Continue reading
"The Most Powerful Skills You Could Have as a Webmaster"
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
What are the most powerful skills you could have as a webmaster? HTML and website creation programs Graphics programs Perl CGI ASP Javascript Coldfusion Those skills are great, but what many employers and clients REALLY WANT goes unsaid. What they do not tell you is this: They really want high-impact results. And you can get high-impact results by honing high-impact skills. High-impact skills are: +designing to facilitate sales +search engine optimization, submittal and tracking +writing to ...› Continue reading
The Struggle with Website Tools
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
About the problems webmasters have with website development - and the solution. Webmaster support forums and message boards are full of users trying to install and customize Perl or PHP scripts. Most of them struggle with at least one step of the installation process. Some of the scripts have no (useful) documentation. Others simply can't get to work with the server environment. Another fraction of scripts have loads of features that make the configuration complex and time-consuming. And most ...› Continue reading
CGI Web Hosting - 3 Essential Scripts for your Business
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
If there's one thing that people love it is a web site that has plenty of automated features. Sites that are highly interactive tend to get the most traffic and generate the most business for the companies that run them. Automated features can also play a "behind the scenes" role, making your site easier to use, run smoothly and allow for things like online sales and password protection. There are many ways to get this type of automation into your site, but all involve either client side or ...› Continue reading
Perl Script Database
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
This project was the first wide-ranging script generator on the Internet and is constantly one of the highest rated Perl scripts in any category. Designed for beginner web developers, the gradually process allows you to configure your fields, set search and display preferences, fully test your script online using your own data, make changes to your configuration, and then download your script and tradition instructions. Simply the fastest way to get Excel-type data into a fully-searchable ...› Continue reading
KnowledgeBuilder 2.5 Released
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Chicago, IL ' ActiveCampaign, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of KnowledgeBuilder 2.50, a PHP/MySQL knowledge-base package. The new version features exporting to PDF, ATOM feeds, find and replace functions, smarty template skinnability, subscriptions to articles, customizable article fields, page-break options, search logs, improved active editing, improved search engine, updated wysiwyg, and more. General product information regarding KnowledgeBuilder is located at: ...› Continue reading
Creating Dynamic Website Content with PHP - MySQL
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Fresh website content for your visitors can be of real benefit when attempting to generate repeat traffic. Most webmasters, however, just don't have enough spare time to frequently update or rebuild their pages manually. If your web site hosting company provides free access to PHP and MySQL, this article will show you how to combine those two open source tools and replace a portion of your websites' static content with frequently changing dynamic content. Why do you need dynamic content for ...› Continue reading
The Reasons Why Today PHP Is The First Choice Of The Web Hosts?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
FTP, PHP, Perl CGI-BIN access, SSI, .htaccess, telnet, SSH crontabs----if the terms appear to be unfamiliar to you, let us inform you that these are all the instruments that can translate your dream of an all-pervading website into reality. So if you have hired a commercial web host, make sure, your web host includes all these facilities in your package. However, a renowned web host would NEVER put its repute at stake by not including these facilities in its package, especially the PHP ...› Continue reading
MySQL for beginners - How to create a MySQL Database
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Whether you are an experienced web programmer or a complete novice attempting to provide data interactivity with your web site, MyQSL is an easy to use and free database solution that can allow you to store and configure data to be displayed on your web site. The best way to create and manage a MySQL database is to download an open source (free) program called PhpMyAdmin. PHPMyAdmin allows you to manage all aspects of both your database structure and data from one easy to use interface. ...› Continue reading
Enhanced Sql Management With a New Free Tool
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Content- Code Templates library with a browser window
- Context-sensitive Code Completion
- Automatic SQL syntax check
- One-click access to schema objects' definitions
- On-the-fly renaming of database objects
- Extended options for Code formatting
- Summary
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ASP vs. PHP
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
When building web sites, ASP and PHP are very popular languages. Here's my opinion on whether ASP or PHP is best ASP v. PHP Both ASP and PHP are languages used to build Dynamic Web sites that can interact with Databases and exchange information. ASP (Active Server Pages) is from Microsoft and is used with IIS (Internet Information Server) that runs on Microsoft Servers. PHP (Personal Home Pages) is from Rasmus Lerdorf, who originally designed this parsing language which was later modified ...› Continue reading
Outsourcing Programming
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
PHP is one type of Open-source icon. It is a extremely skillful language which is well built-in with lots of technologies-notably mysql and MySQL databases servers, which is quite easy for learning. This language helps you up to PHP learning curve, which is illustrates every essential aspect of the language and it's most vital expansion modules. Yes, there are some cool higher stuff, like recipe for manipulate images, which is working with Extensible Markup Language, which is popular known as ...› Continue reading
Charonware, s. r. o. releases CASE Studio 2 new version 2.18
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
New version of CASE Studio 2 fully supports PostreSQL 8.0, Sybase Anywhere 9.0 and MySQL 4.0 (4.1.7) databases. CHARONWARE, s. r. o., a software company specializing in developing database modeling tools, has released a new version of its flagship product CASE Studio 2 version 2.18. CASE Studio 2 is a highly customizable database design tool that allows database designers to visualy create and maintain Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) and Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) and generate SQL scripts for ...› Continue reading
Advantages of PHP Development
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
PHP Hypertext Processor is a server-side web programming language that can be embedded into HTML. PHP uses are widespread, and can include any kind of server functionality that takes user's input and displays or manipulates the input. PHP can run on both UNIX and Windows servers, which makes it more accessible than Windows (ASP). This scripting language is growing day by day. PHP5 a fully object oriented language and its platform independence and speed on Linux server helps to build large and ...› Continue reading
PHP & Databases
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Database applications are one of the most common uses for PHP. Shopping carts, member sites, news sites and many more applications use database to store information. Databases are quicker and easier to update than standard files, making them ideal for admin areas. For instance, the owner of the website doesn't have to know any PHP or HTML to use a database to store information. Databases are also very secure, requiring username and password to access any information. Thanks to the free ...› Continue reading
Going down? This is the 1 crucial key to improving your
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Business |
Going down? This is the 1 crucial key to improving your networking results. Written by Aaron Colman info@ibasics.biz http://www.ibasics.biz If you were in an elevator and had 15 seconds to sell your business, what would you say? "My USP, of course! Right?" WRONG! Your USP is good (USP == Unique Selling Proposition. If you don't have this yet, get one first!) but 9 times out of 10 it's just too big. You need something more concise. Something that can be defined in one sentence and leaves them ...› Continue reading
Open Source Concepts
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
We were recently faced with a decision: either to let a program that took us one year to code die, simply because we do not have enough time to maintain it, or make it open source. Open source looked like a good idea for while, but there was one problem. We wanted to keep the software under our control and to be able to make money selling it later. And let us just be honest and admit it: we wanted monopoly over our software and why not? It took us one year to write the software, and ...› Continue reading
Open Source Scripts
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Commercial web application systems used to be expensive at one time. With the advent of open source solutions such applications are not only available for free but in many cases they are superior to commercial systems.Now anyone can have access to advanced systems and scripts such as content management systems, forums, auction scripts, ecommerce systems, shopping carts, photgallery applications and more. Some example scripts are provided below.Content Management Systems * Drupal * Mambo Open ...› Continue reading
Taking advantage of Open Source PHP MySQL applications
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
1) Where can I find a decent Intranet Application? 2) What about a good Groupware application? 3) What about a custom search engine for our intranet pages? These questions are asked quite frequently in hundreds of forums. One obvious solution is to approach a software development company and obtain a custom built product. However to take this approach one needs to first know what features and functionality is desired. Then on the other hand in some instances the need does not warrant the cost ...› Continue reading
Design an Online Chat Room with PHP and MySQL
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
In this article, you will learn how to design and develop a simple online chat room with PHP and MySQL. This tutorial explains every steps of the development, including both database design and PHP programming. Basic computer skills and knowledge of HTML and PHP are required. Ok, let's begin now. Step 1: Design Database Table. Create table "chat" in MySQL database to store basic chat information: chtime (chat time), nick (user nickname) and words (chat message, less than 150 characters) ...› Continue reading
MS SQL / MySQL - A Case Study
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Contact: John Malco Tel: 1-888-898-9699 Cell: 206-799-9696 MS SQL SERVER 2005 POWERS DATA DRIVEN SITES Case Study of Two Web Hosting Companies The release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on November 7th 2005 created a buzz around the office for IT professionals. The use of SQL server by businesses as in an in house data server has become increasingly more popular, this same popularity is now beginning to shift to the web hosting industry. With the release of MS SQL 2005 Microsoft had ...› Continue reading
Apache, Mysql
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
"Even if you are a seasoned PHP, MySQL and Apache guru, the checklist below will still be helpful in your installation process." Apache, MysQL and PHP for Windows could be a nice nice thing to have on your Windows workstation. You could try and experiment with all kinds of nice PHP and MySQL based applications right on your Windows desktop running Apache, instead of having to access a full-featured server. Most people have Windows as their workstation and it can be sometimes difficult to switch ...› Continue reading
XHTML -Making the Switch
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
XHTML or the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is an extension to HTML made by the w3c. XHTML is a cleaner, neater, generally faster version of HTML. Here are some things you cannot do with XHTML: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc. GOODBYE!!! Never use them agian, they are cheap, they are not coding, you are NOT a webmaster just becuase you can make a frontpage website. Also remember these simple things: Tags must close in the order that they open: Hello is not valid where as Hello is. All tags ...› Continue reading
Keep the web design simple and user friendly
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
It is so easy for us web designers to overlook the viewpoint of web design users in our frantic effort to deliver the latest technology using the best coding and cool designs. The fact is, unless web users are able to understand, use and navigate quickly through a web site, it will probably not achieve its objectives. I am not suggesting that all web design solutions are simple. A lot of web sites actually deliver very complex online solutions. However, no matter how intricate the web design ...› Continue reading
ASPNetNow
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Business |
Impress users with compete and ready to run n-tier web applications in under 2 minutes while generating very well structure VB.Net and C# . Generated applications include role based security, nice looking tabs, charting, searching, sorting, filtering, menus, pictures and field validation edits. ASPNetNow will save you valuable time in creating complete professional looking applications that are ready to run. Uniquely, ASPNetNow generates VB.Net and C# code that exactly follow Microsoft's coding ...› Continue reading
Should I Create a Website? Do I Need One?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
People always want to follow the latest thing, be it in fashion, sports, that kind of thing. Websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even young adults have created personal websites with their respective purposes, be it for profit, or for entertainment. What one must consider, however, before creating a website, are the factors in which must be put to thought before doing so, such as the cost, maintenance, use, web host and so forth. Firstly, ...› Continue reading
Advantages of Low Cost Contract Programmers in Freelance Programming
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
As we all know, nowadays small business owners are looking for dynamic websites for many reasons and we also know that web designers are only specialized in web designing. Thus a complete swing is noticed towards web programming for more flexible websites in last 8-10 years. Through this web programming industry we all have a wish to present our site more programming specifically for displaying our product gallery or services list in front of our visitors without any hazards. Through smart ...› Continue reading
SoftWeb-PDN.com is a hit with programmers
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Since launching in August of 2004, SoftWeb-PDN.com has seen a fast growing stream of traffic and been praised on numerous developer's forums as a solid centralized resource for programmers. "As a software and webware programmer who uses many different languages, I was spending countless hours each week searching for information or resources to improve my projects. That's time I wasn't spending on coding. This site began as a personal project for me to centralize my most frequently used ...› Continue reading
A Time-Saving Programming Tactic That Doesn't Work
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Let's say that you have a software project that's under severe time pressure. Let's say that this deadline is so tight that you already know it will involve many late nights of black coffee and frenetic programming. What can you do to make this process go faster? I honestly don't know, since the correct answer will depend on one's individual circumstances. However, I can tell you how many programmers do respond under such circumstances. They decide to save time by skipping over the software ...› Continue reading
When is a Software Engineer Not a Software Engineer?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
The title of 'software engineer' has got to be among the most highly abused in the corporate high-tech world. It's also one of the most popular. And why not? It sounds a lot better than 'computer programmer,' and it looks much better on one's business card. Unfortunately, it's often inaccurate. Engineering is, after all, the application of sound technical principles to develop systems that are robust, efficient and elegant. I've found that a great many software engineers can develop working ...› Continue reading
PHP Pear Packages :
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
PEAR is short for "PHP Extension and Application Repository". It is a standard and structured library of open-sourced code for PHP users, All PHP code is written in standard style known as PCS ( PEAR Coding Standards ),it helps in maintaining the collaboration between PEAR developers. It is also helpful in quality and portability management. Using PCS, PEAR contributors can provide consistent and similar coding standard packages. PEAR is a community-driven project. The project has been ...› Continue reading
So You Want To Be A Coder
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
What exactly is coding? Coding is basically data entry. You will be looking at documents that someone else has scanned into the computer and taking certain information from each document and entering it in the provided database so that people looking for a certain document can find it quickly. For example, a legal document usually has special numbers that specify the first and last page of documents, the date, the writer of the document, who it is addressed to, what it is about, and additional ...› Continue reading
Custom Software Development Services
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Custom Software Development relates to any kind of software developed either for a specific organization or it consists of a function that differs from any other already available software. These softwares are designed according to the needs and requirements of individual companies, business entities, and organizations. Customized software developers need to have a clear vision and understanding of the requirements of the client before they begin. With customized software development services, ...› Continue reading
Software Development Methodology - What is it Exactly
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Software development methodology is basically the art of developing quality software. This involves series of software development process aimed towards perfecting the software. An error free, defect free, time saving and value giving product is what the methodology is after. The steps involved in engineering the development of software are a long process, which require experience and expertise. There is a lot of struggle, hard work, ideas, tweaking, testing, rinsing, repeating etc put into ...› Continue reading
Make your own Computer Software - without Programming!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
With a new software technology the computer software, so far rather a specialty, is becoming an everyday commodity you can do yourself. And you SHOULD do it yourself: no one knows better what you want to get out of the computer than you! Software development, isn't that the métier of a few highly trained specialists, the "inaugurated high priests of the computer"? - Not for applications as you need every day. With a new software technology, "component based software development", also ...› Continue reading
Incremental Programming
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
b>Programming Help for Beginners Incremental Programming Many novice programmers start a program with a 'big bang' approach, meaning they want to write the whole program in one step and then only they would try to compile and run. However as humans we make many mistakes when programming, especially given that we have to use a programming language to do the job and most programming languages differ drastically from natural languages. Because it is very likely that we would make mistakes, we ...› Continue reading
Free Resources For Learning To Program In HTML
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Business |
Free Resources For Learning To Program In HTML by Dan J. Fry, c. 2003-2004, All rights reserved. If you decide at some point in your life to start an online business, you simply cannot function without a web site. But, how do you go about building your site? Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Staples, and Office Depot, to name a few, have many books to assist you in web programming. These cost both money and time. HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, was first developed by in. It is undoubtedly the top ...› Continue reading
PHP, my favorite Server-side Programming Technology!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
If you are a beginner web designer, most probably you have had faced the difficulty to having some dynamic contents on your site, Just think about a small Guest book, some form to be submitted directly from your site, some dynamic results based on user's previous action''. All impossible with simple html! Although Java scripts can do some of your dynamic works, like automatic form submission by email etc, but this is just client side (all work done on the computer have your page loaded, ...› Continue reading
You Can Automate Your Microsoft Office in About 60 Minutes
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Microsoft Office program is a programming tool called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that comes with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, and Publisher. VBA can make your repeating jobs automatic. It also can customize Excel, Word and other Office procedures for your own needs. From Office version 2000, all the Office programs are equipped with VBA. Hand-On experience is the key to be a good programmer. Programming tutorials are the easier way to learn any computer programs ...› Continue reading
Why More Women Should Consider a Career in Computer Programming
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | News and Society |
Everyone knows that computer programming is a heavily male-dominated field. I think this is unfortunate. Over the years, I've come to conclude that there is a great deal that women can contribute to this field. Why is computer programming regarded as a primarily masculine discipline? I think that in part, it's because men have a reputation for being more likely to tinker around with gadgets and gizmos. In part, it's also because computer science is supposedly a very math-oriented field, and men ...› Continue reading
Programming language popularity
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Self Improvement |
Due to the rapid pace of change in the high tech sector, we often need to evaluate new technologies in order to decide whether to allocate time to learning and using new systems. Jump on the bandwagon too early, and you risk becoming involved with something that just heads downhill or doesn't go anywhere. Wait too long, and you may find yourself behind the times with regards to 'the latest thing'. Programming languages are a particular area of interest. Selecting a language involves many ...› Continue reading
Do You Need a Web Database?
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Does My Web Site Require A Web Database? If your web site require constant updates and feeding of information, a web database is the solution. In short, this applies to web sites that handle online products, news feed, members- based subscription and other functions as well. Not only can a database provide easier access to information, it also automates most of your daily tasks. For example, running an book store requires massive amount of efforts in inventory and updating. However, if you have ...› Continue reading
Take Your Flash Tutorials Now
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Technology |
Do you know something about Flash? Well, you need to know something now. It would be fun! The Flash tutorials are the ways in order to learn how the program works. Consider that in learning a complex language that can be used for multiple devices, Flash tutorials should be look into it. Well, Flash is a programming language that is becoming extremely usual in laymen with its various products. Since for sure you can find Flash programming in cartoons, websites and computer software. Bear in ...› Continue reading
More World Custom Programming
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
Custom Programming The MoreWorld Technology can write custom software on a contract basis. If you have an idea for an application or need a tool written for your business, The MoreWorld Technology will be happy to provide a detailed quote and/or bid. We have provided solutions to organizations of all sizes. Don't think that your project is too small or too large for our team to handle. We provide full-range service to Define, Develop and Support software projects. Whether you have the full ...› Continue reading
Importance of Coding Standards
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
HTML> Programming Help for Beginners - Importance of Coding Standards Programming Help for Beginners Importance of Coding Standards We write programs to instruct computers. When programming using a high level programming language like C++ or Java, we are using a syntax that is somewhat closer to human languages. However, we use these programs as inputs to either compilers or interpreters to be converted to computer understandable binary format. For this reason, as far as the program code ...› Continue reading
For Automated Sites PHP and MySQL are A Perfect Match
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Internet |
You've decided to automate your web site. Now what? Here are some ideas to help you choose how to automate your site. A bit of programming is going to be necessary if you want to automate a site. There are many types of programs that can be used to automate a web site including JavaScript, PHP, Perl, ASP, Java and more. So, which do you use? For many, it is a personal choice. I prefer PHP for programming. PHP is a particularly useful programming language because it allows for advanced ...› Continue reading
Outsource System Programming
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Computers |
Planning to outsource system programming but don't know from where to begin? If you are in same situation then worry not as Softage is there for you. Softage is a complete IT services company providing various services related to the same field. But prior outsourcing system programming it is wise to know about this field as this will only help you. System programming is the sophisticated activity of programming system software. This is not a new technology but got in boom in recent times. The ...› Continue reading
