You might have tested your website on every computer browser you can find, but nowadays that’s just not enough. Nowadays the web is getting more and more mobile – it’s being used on mobile phones, PDAs, and all sorts of other small devices that can be used on-the-go. You need to allow for these visitors [...]

Perl is, let’s face it, a programming language for people who know programming. It’s extremely different from PHP: you can’t really just pick it up and use it. Perl bears a lot of resemblance to C and Unix shell scripts, if that means anything to you – if it doesn’t, you should probably steer clear [...]

Finding the perfect learning tool for Flash is a daunting task to any novice web developer. One can find help in a number of ways through books, friends and private tutors. These methods are great but not often readily available, nor cheap! The best and cheapest way to learn anything from the basics of flash [...]

One thing that I have learned in over a decade developing web sites is that the Net is continually changing, and to keep up you need to change with it. One of the more recent developments in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and semantic web design has several benefits: [...]

Don’t just put your slogan in the title tag when you formulate the copy of your website. The formulation of the title tag is the most important single aspect when you fine-tune your website: 1. It is what people first read when the listing of your site turns up in Google and other search engines. [...]

Here are some important tips for you to remember and some questions to ask your web site design or development company. If you don’t understand the ‘ownership’ issues when you are buying a web site design or web based application, this is must read material for you! Don’t get caught paying twice. I recently interviewed [...]

Here are some important tips for you to remember and some questions to ask your web site design or development company. If you don’t understand the ‘ownership’ issues when you are buying a web site design or web based application, this is must read material for you! Don’t get caught paying twice. I recently interviewed [...]

Search engines give more weight to a web page that has content closer to the top of the HTML document. I am refering to the source code not the visual content you see in your browser. If you incorporate this in the design of your web site, it may just give you the edge to [...]

If you are still designing with tables then you are missing out on a lot of the benefits of cascading style sheets (CSS). Tables were not supposed to be used for designing but unfortunately it has been the standard for a long time. Not any more. 1. Separate content from presentation. An external style sheet [...]

Let’s begin by setting some limits. If you’re like me, you like to keep it simple. All we’re doing is collecting email addresses together for our mailing list, so biochemical engineering is out the window. If you’re using Thunderbird (or that MS product), you can send nicely formatted newsletters out and retain all of the [...]