web-programming Posts

Mar 15, 2007

Creating and maintaining a website or blog can be made easier by using a few simple time savers. An external style sheet is one of the easiest time savers that all websites and blogs should take advantage of. Without going into a long history of style sheets, ...

Mar 12, 2007

I have been cleaning up an older website for a client the last few days, and, to be frank, it has gotten me in a bit of a cranky mood. I can't help but be reminded of the reasons why your aunts cousins nephew should not design and program your ...

Mar 2, 2007

According to Wikipedia a mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. Web mashups are turning the web on its head by combining information from multiple sources and presenting them in a whole new way. You can find a directory of ...

Feb 26, 2007

It happened to me again. I updated a site and did not go and check what it looked like in an older version of Internet Explorer on Windows 98. It does not matter how long you have been doing web updates, and how simple the updates are, somethings just do ...

Feb 23, 2007

I suppose I am a little old school when it comes to writing html and css because I prefer to do it by hand. I use a decent programming editor with syntax highlighting and with tag helps, but I prefer to see the code. Not everyone is like me, so ...

Feb 22, 2007

I was reminded today when I visited the Google Adsense blog that Google has some interesting wizards that you can use to add ajax addons on your website. The Adsense blog was talking about a news bar, but there is also map search, video bar, video search, and book bar ...

Feb 22, 2007

I have been working on a website that uses Ajax calls to dynamically load content into the same page with out refreshing. One of the reasons Ajax was chosen was to create a user experience similar to a flash website. The site appears very smooth, and is as close to ...

Feb 21, 2007

I use Blogger for this blog, mainly because it is easy to use. One of the features of the new Blogger that I like is the ability to add labels to posts, but because I publish via FTP there is no way to use the labels widget that is available ...

Feb 20, 2007

Most people don't realize that there website can found by using both www.mywebsite.com and mywebsite.com. Why is this important? The search engines will index both the www site and the non-www site, providing the search engine an identical set of pages which could lead to a penalty. While most search ...

Feb 13, 2007

Looking for a quick and easy way to add some new zing to your website without a lot of fuss. Here are my top five Ajax add ons to bring some new life to your website. The list is in order of how difficult I think it is to implement ...