News tagged “tips”

Using CSS to Fix Anything
Noupe shares some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout.
 17th of June at 11:14 am
The PHP Benchmark
The PHP Benchmark was constructed as a way to open people's eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed. You may be surprised at the results that this page generates.
 9th of June at 1:27 pm
Planning a Semantic Web site
This article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need in place to truly take advantage of this burgeoning opportunity.
 8th of June at 5:49 pm
Why we skip Photoshop
7 reasons why the 37signals team skips photoshop.
 8th of June at 8:25 am
The Problem With innerHTML
The innerHTML property is extremely popular because it provides a simple way to completely replace the contents of an HTML element. However, innerHTML has few problems of its own that you need to be aware of:
 14th of May at 1:56 pm
Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
The game was positioned in a gallery with a small set of rules and instructions, but the game was left open for development. Over the course of the night, the game developed into a multi-player, three-dimensional, architectural, gambling, building site.
 13th of May at 7:35 pm
Understanding CSS positioning part 2
This is the second part in the Understanding CSS positioning series, which will focus on float and more advanced display properties.
 12th of May at 9:54 pm
How To Fix Video Slowing Down Your Page Load Time
Putting a huge file on our page will slow down the other page elements that are also trying to load at the same time. The solution then, is to ensure that the video doesn't load until after the rest of the page is loaded.
 7th of May at 6:23 am
Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
This article presents 5 coding techniques which can dramatically improve management and simplify maintainability of your code.
 2nd of May at 4:58 pm
jQuery for JavaScript programmers
Great post by Simon Willison about why jQuery should be of interest to experienced programmers as well as inexperienced designers.
 21st of April at 8:55 pm
How To Make a Bookmarklet For Your Web Application
This article walks through the anatomy of a bookmarklet, dissect a few, and give you the tools to build your own.
 17th of April at 9:54 am
Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
Thou shall post every day is the most fundamental and most well known principle of blogging. Or is it'
 16th of April at 5:24 pm
Avoiding Flickering in jQuery
Quick and dirty way to remove rendering flicker in jQuery
 14th of April at 8:24 am
Some PHP Abilities You May Not Know About
Nice list of PHP trickery you might not know about that can speed up your PHP development.
 9th of April at 2:37 pm
Take Control of Your Maps
For the practical developer who wants to add geospatial information to a site or application, the Google Maps API has been an easy call.
 9th of April at 9:59 am
Advanced JavaScript Debugging Techniques
We all worship at the altar of Firebug, but there are things that can go beyond a console.log(). The following is a list of methods that every developer should have in their toolbox.
 5th of April at 1:30 pm
The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know
Trevor thought he would give a quick tutorial, with examples, of the 6 most important CSS techniques that he thinks you need to know.
 2nd of April at 4:57 pm
Secure PHP Programming
When a web site is cracked, it typically tends to be a simple common sense mistake by a program author who forgets what an attacker can do with his code.
 21st of March at 12:59 pm
Eight Tips That Makes You a Better jQuery Coder
Here are eight tips for becomming a better jQuery coder that you might consider before taking on your next project.
 20th of March at 1:13 am
Optimize your php code
A good article about increasing performance on PHP.
 19th of March at 10:18 am
Highlight Deprecated HTML
Find deprecated elements and attributes using CSS. Add the sample CSS to the end of your style sheet and it will highlight bad code.
 6th of March at 11:31 am