Posts tagged with "webdev"

Adobe: Do as we say, not as we do 3

Adobe launched its Open Source initiative website the other day and I took at a look at the page. After highlighting some of the text as I read through it, I quickly realised I had stumbled through a warp-hole and landed in 1995. Warning: bad coding practices in this post!

Posted by Oli 9 months ago in design & webdev. Continue reading »

Why Firefox 3 rocks 2

A media heavy post to start the year! I've been using Firefox 3 beta 2 for some time now and here are my favourite features. FF3 already rocks my socks and I've a feeling that the final release is going to blow them off.

Posted by Oli 11 months ago in firefox & webdev. Continue reading »

Browser-wars 2.0? Conflict breeds innovation 0

Several pronounced webdev figures are stepping forward to say they're bored of the stale state of standards. We need more fun and faster innovation and the best thing for that is all-out war, no?

Posted by Oli 12 months ago in standards & webdev. Continue reading »

AutoPacker - Optimise your JavaScript 0

Do you juggle several JavaScript files around your site? Too much effort to compress them down? Now you can compress them down as soon as you edit a file without having to run the files through an external tool, all done transparently and on the fly.

Posted by Oli 13 months ago in javascript, php & webdev. Continue reading »

How to block Adblock 25

I totally abhor all the recent ranting on how Adblock is going to destroy the online economy so I've written them some code. They can be obnoxious about the way people view their sites and block them or they can get on with things. What I've written is technically DRM 2.0. Please don't hate me.

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in drm, javascript & webdev. Continue reading »

Will semantic development kill link ads? 5

How effective will link advertisements be if/when the web becomes even more semantic? Is there a future for the schemes that fund many bloggers' habits.

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in webdev, standards & seo. Continue reading »

Has Apple tripped up with Safari? 49

Apple has recently launched their flagship browser to Windows. Any good? Any point? Despite his animosity for most things Apple, Oli is excited to be getting his hands on the Apple browser... But for how long?

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in apple, webdev & releases. Continue reading »

Stop the server abuse! 6

I've made so many rants about using JavaScript correctly over the past couple of months that I'm starting to lose count! Now, I would seem quite pretentious if I expected every web designer on the Internet to have read them but I'm not the only person preaching that JS/CSS should be used

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in webdev, javascript & <rant>. Continue reading »

CSS Table of Contents 5

I bumped into Derek Punsalan's 5ThirtyOne the other day and saw his take on a CSS version of a Table of Contents. It's a good effort. That sounds harsh but don't mean it like that — it's just 80% of the way there...

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in css & webdev. Continue reading »

Why Use Standards? 2

Over the past few years, people who've been watching the world of webdev will have noticed that the message of standards has been playing a major role in how people chose to develop things. With all this noise, however, people aren't getting the whole message. I'm still finding people that

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in standards & webdev. Continue reading »

Pros and Cons of OpenID 5

The term "OpenID" has been banded around a lot in the previous few days with people on both sides of the fence making their views on the system known. More importantly (some would think), major account providers have said they are going to support the system, the biggest at the

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in openid & webdev. Continue reading »

Gripe 802: Background Images 1

When making a design these days, people are far too keen to plaster background images around without wondering what happens if the site cannot load the image for some reason. This is not normal behaviour but when did anything work as you wanted it 100% of the time? Some common reasons for

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in accessibility, webdev & <rant>. Continue reading »

Flash isn't flashy 1

A fairly common complaint from some webdesigners is clients want too much Flash and this is fairly easy to understand. Clients want flashy websites! That's why they've come to see you in the first place. They want something that oozes class and makes people think they're the best.

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in flash & webdev. Continue reading »

Browsers are not the future 0

I've been making web pages long enough to notice the massive changes that have happened over the last 5 years in web designers' approaches to web design and how we use browser functionality to aide our efforts to deliver both working and aesthetically pleasing sites. We've been progressing

Posted by Oli 24 months ago in webdev & <rant>. Continue reading »

The 5 Rules of WebDev 1

Truth be told, there are no rules to what you have to abide by when designing a new website. You *can* do pretty much what you like, but then again, you might not have much repeat traffic. 1. Use standards This is probably the most flogged horse of a concept that there is in today's

Posted by Oli 24 months ago in webdev, css & other. Continue reading »

NEW Experts-Exchange Website 7

[image] You cannot stop the signal. Indeed you cannot. A few minutes after Experts-Exchange posted an image (on the right) about the new site, I was hurling a massive amount of energy to finding to see if they had a testing subdomain. Don't you just love it when you're right? I

Posted by Oli 25 months ago in experts-exchange, new, webdev & releases. Continue reading »

CSS Should Be Better 2

CSS, albeit old, is an amazing breakthrough in the way we can separate markup from how things are displayed. For most newcomers to the web-design arena, this means very little but when you look at things closer, you see it's doing a lot of things in your favour Your bandwidth

Posted by Oli 25 months ago in css, webdev & programming. Continue reading »

Is WebSafe Still Important? 0

I've just started work in a WebDev thread on Experts Exchange over the importance of using WebSafe colours. If you haven't got a clue what I'm talking about, the WebSafe colour palette was designed as a standard

Posted by Oli 26 months ago in webdev, websafe & <rant>. Continue reading »

Limiting The Digg Effect 0

For those that don't already know, Digg is a community driven, tech-news site. Its users post links to articles and if enough people find the article helpful or amusing, they "digg" it. Once the article has enough diggs, it is moved from the mildly hidden back-end of the site, and put on

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in digg, webdev & networking. Continue reading »

Getting the ISP from the IP 1

Following on from my last article on getting the correct IP address from your user, its time to take it a little further with some whois lookups. Click here for a demo of IPLookup A whois lookup *can* tell you lots of information about the users IP address.

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in programming, ip, isp, webdev & vb.net. Continue reading »

Getting The Real IP Of Your Users 21

Learn the ins an outs of getting a users IP, even if they're using a proxy.

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in ip, programming, webdev, vb.net, c#, php, java, jsp, asp, coldfusion & perl. Continue reading »

SQL 0

SQL The Language of Databases. Today I'll teach you how to read from a database using SQL.To read from a database using sql you need to first open a connection to a database. a connection string looks something like thisSet Connection = Server.CreateObject(""ADODB.Connection"")

Posted by HardPlant 65 months ago in sql, programming & webdev. Continue reading »

Cookies 0

In this tutorial you learn how to use cookies. Say you wanted to remember your logni information Kinda like on this web page you login it remembers your login information with the use of cookies so everytime you come back you don't have to re-login. If you logout it deletes the cookie.Cookies

Posted by Nate 65 months ago in asp, programming & webdev. Continue reading »

Simple login page with ASP engine 2

This Tutorial deals with the basics of html.