Since working contact forms are a regular requirement for web designers and developers here’s a tutorial on how to make a working, secure and stylish contact form with Xajax and PHPMailer.
10 January 2010
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Wordpress 2.9 – Carmen, named after Carmen McRae, the famous American Jazz singer, was released 4 days back on 18th December, 2009. Taking another step further to remain the most popular blogging platform turned CMS, this release included some exceptionally nice features that could make life really easy, other than …
22 December 2009
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Mootools have recently taken a bit of backseat with the advent of jQuery, which incidentally has become the most popular javascript framework. But Mootools can still be utilized for several functions that jQuery can perform and can surely be deployed to all websites.
So what to choose? Mootools or jQuery? It …
23 November 2009
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So you like Twitter and you have a blog / website too…Well, then you are just like me – and thousands…err…millions of others. Now allow your website or blog to connect to Twitter and display your tweets, friends and profile directly on your site making it super easy and attractive for your visitors to connect to you. Here’s a list of 13 wonderful jQuery plugins that would help you accomplish this mission.
14 November 2009
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A good navigation system has always been important for websites. Not only does it open up a website’s contents to its visitors, but also provides an opportunity to stand out if it can be designed and made to function well. Previously a good way of displaying “cool” navigation was by …
10 November 2009
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Web development requires the use of several softwares. From imaging, designing, coding to usability testing and deployment, several softwares come into use regularly to create the most beautiful and useful websites. These softwares are often pretty expensive and not-so-flexible. Enter open source. Open source softwares are fast becoming preferred alternatives …
8 November 2009
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Everyone’s interested in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) today! SEO is not, any more, only for the web marketers who live, breathe, smoke, drink, eat, dream and probably do all other activities thinking about Search Engines. It has become a common thing for everyone to think that if you have any …
6 November 2009
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There are several new features popping up in recent sites that enhances user experience. Here’s some of the extremely popular and useful features you can apply to your websites with PHP.
4 November 2009
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With the increased need for developing websites that support a whole lot of features, has a cool interface and perform fast and smooth is a challenging task. Web developers today, need to use hundreds of new technologies to deliver the needful. And to do this, they will often need to …
1 November 2009
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It’s not usually possible to display Adobe PSD files in a web page. But there are times when such display becomes a need. And it is possible to make such a display quite easily with the help of a PHP class. Here’s how it goes…
23 October 2009
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Web developers today are driven to use new technologies for enhancing and enriching user experience and functionalities. Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is one such technology. In the present times, the usage of Ajax have grown rapidly to ensure improved user practice and website presentations. Following the lines, here are …
20 October 2009
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If you have a physical store, or a company where you’d like your clients to visit, it is very important for your website to have a Google Map integrated, ideally on your contacts page, to provide the right directions. Embedding maps in your site can make it extremely easy for …
17 October 2009
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Microblogging is in! And Twitter is a proof enough for that. It is pretty efficient and useful for staying in touch with family, friends and colleagues. But did you know that you can set up a similar website, for your very personal network, using wordpress? Yes, just a few plugins, …
11 October 2009
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