Web Developer Resources

The internet was first designed with the machines developed for humans who had to adapt to standards that were more or less limited by the way machines were out together. The term micro-format is a revolutionary way of looking at the web which as we know has evolved a lot since it’s inception. The new way developers look at the internet/web is with the people who use them in from of the machines which we do our work making them more human-like and acceptable as technology for people. The web has been doing well, as far as serving us able to give us what we need and serving the many businesses who fund the infrastructure at which we work in, call it a win-win battle. But there is a very much important factor that has to evolve that has to do with our very human nature, we all differ from one to another in terms of preference. Read the rest of this entry »

Not all web pages have to be as serious as hell to get the attention of your customers and followers for there are a lot of funny ones that do make the cut by using rather unorthodox pages that whilst their bizarre forms still keep the customers rolling in as can be seen on this site. Call them guerrilla designs or rogue themed ones but they are interesting enough to get people interested to dig deeper and even get onto your services or whatever you may be marketing. Professional sites promote using professional themes and methods accepted and quite standardized in the industry. But for freelance works and sites that are for public consumption, the sky’s the limit when to comes to design. Read the rest of this entry »

With SEO comes self-promotion which is very much misunderstood and people tend to do this so heavily people are swayed from coming back. Links should be credible and must give credence to claims, linking to popular sites and giving due recognition for sources that need them as much as you do. For more professional sites you’d wish to quote or derive information from, a well prepared and courteous request for such an action would be in order, it also helps a lot with legalities should you be cited for plagiarism, a common occurrence in today’s blogging world. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody who has worked with SEO knows that proper selection of your links, phrases and words for SEO purposes is one of the most effective way to promote your product, site or other services. Page ranking is done by the many search engine bots and selecting the most likely term,phrase or word that your prospective customers are to search for, the more likely they will be landing on your page. There is one important thing to consider when engaging in SEO, and that is you don;t only want more people to get into your site, but those visits should also translate to sales or profits because of the particular page they laded in. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a new web developer and want to showcase your designs and get come constructive criticism for your work - plus exposure - then you might want to visit Get Free Web Designs. Both beginner and veteran web designers have designs here, all open sourced. Besides the exposure, this is also a way for you learn various techniques in web design based on the designs you like or are most popular. Since it is open sourced, you can easily see the XHTML code used to make it, and can use it either as a base for a new design, or apply principles used in coding to make your own unique webpage design.

Simply visit the page and register so you can start uploading your designs for the world to see.

There used to be a when the only reliable and full-featured spreadsheet program around was Excel, but not anymore for Ajax based ZK Spreadsheets are going to allow developers to embed full featured spreadsheet functions in Java. The open-sourced community has been clamoring for a system that can challenge the dominance of Excel for quite sometime and they have at last done it with the addition of the said functionality to the many open-sourced systems.
Microsoft has also been challenged by Google docs which was one of the very first open-sourced spreadsheet programs around that not only rivaled Excel but the whole Microsoft Office suite that was again hit by the introduction of Open Office. Google docs got better and better that many have begun to take it on over the expensive office package which they had to pay for as their needs grew. Thanks to the Open community and the major companies that have sprouted to challenge their dominance, the doors have again opened to the community for further growth and this time with style.

It used to be that the opensource web browser Firefox and Google are one of the best of friends, that was until Google created their own web browser: Google Chrome. Since then, the relationship between the two has been a bit distanced lately.

Mozilla CEO John Lilly told ComputerWorld in an interview that his organization’s relationship with Google has been at least a little bit strained since the release of Chrome.

“We have a fine and reasonable relationship,” Lilly said. “But I’d be lying if I said that things weren’t more complicated than they used to be.”

The vast majority of Mozilla’s revenue — 88%, or about $60 million/year — comes from its search advertising deal with Google. It’s unlikely that Google would walk away from that, but now that Google has become a competitor, Mozilla isn’t counting on that revenue stream being there forever.

Whether they patch up or not, Google chrome has provided another avenue for web developers to develop new software and program for.

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The tiny bit of information that a user attaches to the end of an email is called email signature. Basically, you can pretty much type in whatever you like into the email signature, but for starters, you can include your name and contact numbers. Email signatures can be simple texts or some cutesy images. Other email programs even allow you to create assorted email signatures and attch them according to your mood. An email signature is saves time and easy to use. When create a thank you note, you can just type in the thank you message and you need not worry baout not writing your name at the end of the note, it will be added automatically, as easy as that. The same way applies if you include your contact details in your email signature.

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There are several free web site counters available on the Internet today. Its an easy way to keep track of the number of guests and visitors on your web site. The free web site counter is a simple small script in which it keeps a count of the visitors and remembers their profiles, the pages that they actually visit and the configuration of their systems. In this way, the free web site counters help you understand more your most likely visitors in the future. It also is a good way to know the likelihood of your site being popular. Most of the the web site counters display a small web banner ad or a counter image. These counters are customizable by the web site owners to fit its genral appearance. Web site counters help in creating an effective presence on the internet. What you can do is to check on the counter regularly so that you can browse through the information it has gathered from its guests so that you can analyze how to make them come back to your site.

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The Total Validator, provides one-click validation. Once you install this, all you do is browse to the page you want to validate and then click on the ‘TV’ icon in the browser.
All of the options available with the online services are available with the Firefox extension also through a series of tabbed pages on the options dialog. Now, validating HTML is made more reliable. Using the extension couldn’t be easier. Just browse to the page you want to validate then click on the ‘TV’ icon in the status bar. Just right click the mouse and choose Total Validator from the menu, or you can just add an icon to your toolbar. All of the validation options available online.