Web Developer Resources

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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.

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XQuery was made so that there was a way to query data stored in an XML document, much the same way SQL is used to query a database.

XQuery uses simple functions to query a document. An XQuery function looks a little like a javascript function in that it uses parentheses containing an element that is to be the object of the function. With XQuery, the element in parentheses is typically the name of the document or file to be queried.

To find what it is looking for within that file, XQuery narrows its search by using path expressions that look a lot like the path for an ordinary file stored on your computer, with the various subsets of data within the XML file separated by backslashes. The predicate is the final component of an XQuery function. The predicate tells the function exactly what information, data, or range of data within a particular subset is to be extracted and returned to the user.

The position of Web developer is sometimes synonymous to software developer, application programmer, Web programmer or Web designer. A Web developer is and IT professional responsible for creating programs that run on the Internet. The applications he develops can be accessed by internal or external users or even both depending on the needs of the organization.

Some of the duties and responsibilities associated with a Web developer are online system design, application design, application coding, testing and maintaining the application after implementation. Aside from the technical skills, strong interpersonal skills are required to work effectively with different personalities from management, executive and technical staff up to end users. Proper documentation of all the project�s aspects is another skill not cannot be neglected.

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HierMenus Code has been relatively successful and found great use on the Internet. It is only of the more popular software choice for intranets which allows easier navigation of intra-company site. HierMenu has a history of being a long-standing software solution in Dynamic HTML format. It is now currently in its sixth version and continuous upgrade and enhancement of the code is being done.

Aside from being developed by one of the more competent companies in the industry, some of the benefits and features that can be enjoyed from using HierMenus are:
1. Flexible Pop Up and Drop Down menu
2. Can free up screen space for site visitors
3. Easy to use interface
4. Compatibility with Cross Frames
5. Centralized Management
6. Wide range of supported browsers
7. Cost Effective

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A globally recognized avatar or to put it short, a Gravatar, was conceptualized by Tom Werner. It is simply an avatar image that appears beside your name everytime you comment on gravatar enabled sites.

Usually, the size of a Gravatar is 80 by 80 pixels. There is also a rating for each image, allowing the webmasters to control the content of to Gravatar to be displayed on their website. Email addresses are hashed with the MD5 cryptographic hash function to eliminate spam and prevent spambots from harvesting e-mail addresses.

One of the leading providers of audience engagement and media distribution services for blogs and RSS feeds is Feedburner. It helps bloggers, commercial publisher and podcasters promote,deliver and profit from their site content on the web.

Feeburner offers the largest blog and feed adevertising network, bringing together an unprecedented caliber of content coming from the world’s most recognized media, individual publishers around the world and A-list bloggers. The most useful tool is its ability to allow readers to subscribe to the site and be updated with new posts from the site owner.

Haloscan is a free and useful commenting tool that can be easily installed on any weblog or webpage. Several of its features are: comment moderation, ability to ban offesinve comments by single IP or an IP range, a fully customizable comment window, worldwide time-zone and language support and hundreds of user-submitted templates to choose from. It also has a comment dashboard and is able to handle gravatar support.

Another innovation by Google is its ad serving program called Google Adsense. Website owners may enroll in this program which enables advertisement like text, image and video advertisements appear on their site. Administered by Google, these ads generate revenue on either per-thousand impressions or per-click basis. Currently, Google is beta-testing a service that is cost-per-action.

A popular and useful widget for live traffic is Feedjit. It shows statistics on your website in realtime like the city and country where your visitors are from, which website they came from, the page they visited on your site and the external link that they have clicked to leave your site.

To protect the privacy of visitors, Feedjit has the option to discontinue showing their future visits by clicking on “options” on the widget and selecting “Ignore my browser”. It does not slow down the site as it is very fast and is used by several high traffic commercial websites. Web owners can also choose the size and design of their Feedjit by customizing the colors to fit their layouts.