Making a website or a blog now-a-days is not easy, given all the tools we have today compared to the early 90's means its not only easier for us but easier for others too. The competitive playground is just so big now a days. This is why your website not only has to be unique but has to cover a few basic things first. Here are some stats and guidelines to help you get started. As well as a look into the business aspect of making a website.
For some reason modern designers and developers love to use tabs. Maybe they keep things organize and clean all in one page. Here's a incredibly simple cross browser compatible Javasript tabs script. The final result will look like the one below.
Learning Photoshop and all the wonderful things it can do can be a hassle if all you want to focus on is web design/development. Here's some great photoshop tutorials that will hasten your pace into learning all the essentials to make great web designs. I've include UI Photoshop tutorials and text manipulation tutorials. Go and try them out, make some glamorous websites.
Developer or designer, when you're working on websites sometimes you just need a boost in inpiration to work, I know I do! Here's some great abstract artwork that I came across in the past two weeks that helped me gain that inspiration.
If you not only own your website but also develop and maintain it yourself then you should understand how hard it is if there weren't some already developed tools and web resources to help you with your work. Here I've listed some of my favourite development resource sites and should be yours too for your developing moments. If you don't have them all bookmarked yet, DO IT NOW!
Seems like there were a couple bugs in the Online Favicon Generator Tool but I worked things out and things should be running smoothly now. Saving is and loading is still very simple.
Although not recommended but maybe for some reason you need to create a PHP login without the use of any database (SQL). For some reason you maybe scared to approach, but here I made a script that is fairly secure without utilizing any database at all. It allows users to login and stay logged in. If you are one of those people then here's the script for you.
This morning when I logged into my WordPress I noticed the notification to update to version 2.8.5. I was hesitant as it might change up some of the work and modifications to the version I'm currently using (2.8.4). It turns out it was a small update from 2.8.4 but an essential one. For those of you who are using anything older I strongly urge you to prioritize and update as there has been many major security updates since.
Sometimes you may be required to have popup windows on your website. They're obtrusive and hard to style with your site, in summary – nasty. What I've seen is other websites fade out their background and have an in page popup. I came up with a script that does the same thing in PHP and it looks exactly like the image below. Jump to the next page for the script.
Ever since Google and SEO exploded web developers overly obsessed over page ranks. As time passed people became more and more insane over "WHAT'S YOUR PR?", "WHEN'S THE NEXT PR UPDATE?", and "I ACHIEVED x PR IN x MONTHS". Regardless of how you try to convince people not to dwell on it, people did. It was impossible, it's like trying to tell people Diet Coke is not for losing weight. Over the weekend something miraculous happened, the official dropping of PageRanks by Google. Now, no longer would you have to worry about delegating SEO time to this treachery.
