Tag: Open Source

Why Drupal Is The Ideal Platform For Seo

Posted on Feb.22, 2010, under Web Design No Comments

There are several open source publishing platforms that allow businesses to thrive online, with Joomla!, WordPress, and Drupal being the three most popular. So when choosing the platform for your business, how do you know which one will help you optimize your online goals? If you are striving to max


Php Development Turn Your Website Into Multifeatured Web Application

Posted on Feb.21, 2010, under Web Design No Comments

Are you looking for developing a web application with charming features which have a range integrated database?


MySQL for Beginners ? How to Create a MySQL Database

Posted on Jun.28, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments

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 [...]


Professional Software Icons For Your Standalone Application

Posted on Jun.21, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments

User interfaces and accessibility are some of the most important aspect of an application. It can have a million features, it can do a thousand things once, but if it doesn’t look quite right then it will be a disaster. Take Linux for example. This open source (free) operating system has been around for quite a while, and it has been very appreciated for its stability and speed. However, in its earlier days it lacked a user interface, which made [...]


Web Design Using a CMS

Posted on Apr.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

A Content Management System could be best described as integrating elements of a web site such as design, content, media and database into one easy to use package. The System is normally controlled by using a web interface (a form) which will capture the data and store it in a database according to its attributes (title, category keywords, description etc.). Some of the better ones out there are Mambo / Joomla, and because its open source there is a large [...]


Which Database is Right for You?

Posted on Apr.12, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

If you can choose your database, you’re lucky: few hosts offer
anything more than MySQL. If you’re doing things yourself,
though, or you have one of those rare hosts, then you might find
that you need to weigh up the positives and negatives of
different database software.
MySQL
MySQL is the most common database software for small websites,
but is laughed at in the rest of the industry. It’s fine for
simple insertion and retrieval of data, but if you start trying
to do anything more advanced with it, [...]


Understanding Web Jargon

Posted on Apr.10, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Don’t know your HTML from your HTTP? Your cache from your
cookies? The web has serious amounts of jargon, and it seems
like people come up with new words almost every day. Most of it
isn’t especially useful, but there are some words that it’s good
to know to help you along on the web. Here are the essentials.
Apache. The most popular web server. It is open source and free
for anyone to use.
Blog. A short for ‘weblog’. A web page that is updated like [...]


Python and Ruby: the Newer Alternatives

Posted on Apr.08, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a
programming language and get a significant number of people to
use it: and plenty of people have. Two of the newest and
fastest-growing players when it comes to open source web
languages are Python and Ruby. Neither of them were web
languages originally – they were normal programming languages -
but more and more people are starting to use them to power their
websites. So what are they, and how do they work? Let’s take [...]


Web Design Using a CMS

Posted on Mar.24, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Web Design Using a CMS
There has been a big craze lately, everybody wants their site as
a database driven site or Content Management System (CMS). There
are many advantages to using a CMS over ordinary static page
site, the main on is site structure. You can change the
structure and the hierarchy of the site instantly.
A Content Management System could be best described as
integrating elements of a web site such as design, content,
media and database into one easy to use package. The System is
normally [...]


What people love and hate in web site and printing

Posted on Mar.21, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

If you want to take your color printing into the next level, you
may want to put it in your site or in any other form of getting
people to read them. It cannot be denied though that there are
some things people love and hate to see, whether offline or
online, in the printing mediums that other people, companies and
businesses use.
Take, for example, in some web sites. When flashes first came
into existence, web site owners wanted to have a piece of the
action. Who [...]