Archive for January, 2007
January 30, 2007 at 10:09 pm by Dave · Filed under , ,
If you’ve got a website that deals with data then chances are you have a search field somewhere on that website. If you’ve got a search field on your website then chances are you want that search to return the most relevant information, chances are your customers want this even more than you do. We’ve all been frustrated by websites that provide a search box but don’t seem to provide any useful results. Using the following tutorial you can ensure that searches on your site are better than the competition.
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January 30, 2007 at 9:52 pm by Kane · Filed under ,
I found this article a couple of months back from an old web design forum and saved it because I knew how golden it was for people looking for a career in the web design and development world. Ever since I’ve been showing it to as many related people as possible, here goes;
Dear You.
I have been around the block a few times here in this great big world wide web of design and website creation. Over the years I see the same mistakes over and over again. I really wanted to let everybody in on some things that might help you in the future. I am not going to lecture you on the nit picky things, but more a broad overview that might help you in your career if you chose to pursue web design as a field.
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Design Vs. Coding
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One of the biggest things I see people doing wrong, mainly kids coming out of school and lots of freelancers, is that they think to be a web designer they need to know everything: Programming, CSS, PHP, How to Design, Flash etc. Read the rest of this entry »
January 30, 2007 at 12:33 am by Kane · Filed under ,
Until recently there seemed to be some sort of trend in the world of web design where webmasters designed websites with tables. What’s wrong with that? To the untrained eye table based websites could pass for a perfectly well designed site. However, in comparison to the benefits and ease of CSS, table based sites are a bad option.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) uses relational code in comparison to tables which uses redundant and repeated code. This decreases the file size of the page and in turn decreases the bandwith used. Also, relational data means that the whole site can be redesigned easily as proved by CSS Zen Garden which shows that using CSS stylesheets, the whole design of a website can be changed very easily. Read the rest of this entry »
January 29, 2007 at 9:10 pm by Steph · Filed under
Hey guys (and ladies),
Just a little topic to show my face! Hmmm, now, where to start?
My main interests focus around security, networking and administration, and occasionally i dabble with coding (like i use alot of vbs for exploits), but everything’s related to those three categories, mainly i expand on different aspects on security.
Currently I’m a security manager of a sixth form college and secondary school of about 900 computers and laptops, and have been doing that for a good couple of years now. I have a good background knowledge in ICT in general, and look forward to learning from and contributing to SpeekGeek!
Well it’s good to be here, Steph over and out!
January 29, 2007 at 7:14 pm by Ed · Filed under ,
What is AJAX? Asyncronous JavaScript and XML. That’s it. Well, not really…
AJAX is a new approach to web applications, further propelling the transition of desktop applications to the web. It makes use of existing technology to provide smoother, faster web applications by using JavaScript to refresh a page’s contents from a server without reloading an entire page.
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January 29, 2007 at 1:08 pm by Ed · Filed under ,
Ok, this isn’t our tutorial, but I use this site alot to get my basic CSS layouts sorted. I’d definately recommend Little Boxes from www.thenoodleincident.com to anyone wanting to start out a site design using CSS for their layouts.
January 29, 2007 at 12:55 pm by Kane · Filed under
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the technique of webmasters creating their website pages ‘Search Engine Friendly’ in order to have a better and higher listing in search engine rankings.
This is done as a method of marketing in order for a larger base of website traffic bringing in potential customers, potential users or just a greater volume in traffic. Thanks to the huge usage of popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, these engines point users to specific websites based upon what they deem as the most appropriate. How they work this out is based on their own algorithms and the keyword/s the user has input. Although these algorithms remain a secret there are common techniques used within web design that help push websites up the ranks for certain keywords. Here are 10 top tips to help you optimize your website for search engines;
- Content, content, content…
This is number one for a reason - good quality text which focuses on a specific keyword will be considered more appropriate. A large frequency of keyphrases based around this keyword will also be particulary important because it is unlikely that users will just be searching for the one keyword. A good tool to find out what other phrases are commonly search with keywords is the Search Inventory tool found here. Read the rest of this entry »
January 29, 2007 at 12:58 am by Ed · Filed under , ,
Ok, so how do you load a .php file into your web browser, and what does it do when you type (for example) http://www.partofthefriction.com/index.php then hit enter?
- The web browser requests the document with the .php extension from the partofthefriction.com server.
- The webserver kicks in and says “Hey! Someone wants a PHP file. Something else needs to deal with it because I only serve HTML”, and then sends the request onto a PHP parser software located on the server.
- The PHP parser finds the PHP file, then scans it for PHP code from top to bottom, left to right (how we read … that is if you’re English).
- When the PHP parser finds PHP code, it executes it and places the output (if any) into the place in the file formerly occupied by the code.
- This new output is sent back to the webserver.
- The webserver then sends it along to the web browser.
- The web browser displays the output.
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January 29, 2007 at 12:45 am by Ed · Filed under , ,
This is my first ‘hybrid’ post that accomodates for both PHP and MySQL, and incorporates the MySQL RAND() function mentioned in another post. This post assumes you know how to create and use a connection to a MySQL database in PHP and have a table named ‘quotes’ as shown below. In this post, I will aim to teach you how to use PHP to pull random quotes from a MYSQL table of quotes. This can be easily extended to pull a random banner as will be explained at the end of the post. Read the rest of this entry »
January 28, 2007 at 6:03 pm by Kane · Filed under
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