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How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax: Part 1

In the past, web applications were limited because a web page had to be reloaded (or another page loaded in its place) in order for new data to be obtained. Other methods were available (without loading another page), but the techniques weren’t well supported and had a tendency to be buggy. In recent months, a technique that had not been widely supported in the past has become available to a large number of web surfers, giving developers more freedom to develop cutting-edge web applications. These applications, which asynchronously retrieve XML data via JavaScript, are affectionately known as “Ajax applications” (Asynchronous Javascript and XML applications). In this article, I will explain how to retrieve a remote XML file via Ajax to update a web page, and as this series continues, I will discuss more ways that Ajax technology can be us

Project Management: Administration

If you've followed along as we've built the core and authentication sections of a project management application, you can guess what this article is all about. It will walk you through the scripts you need to employ to add an administration section to the application. It will enable administrators to complete tasks that you may not want to allow all of your application's users to do.

Identity Management Made Easy with OpenSSO

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Advanced Web Performance Optimization

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There are lots of stats you can check

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Use CSS to Prevent Printing

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HTTP Headers in Web Development

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Accessibility, usability, and SEO

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How productive are you?

As a Web designer, like me, you probably spend a lot of time online. But how much of that time is spent doing things that improve your career, increase your sales, or just keep you working effectively? I find that it's really easy to get side-tracked when researching an article or designing a website. So I'm always looking for ways to be more productive. The article 14 Simple Things to Boost Your Online Productivity from MakeUseOf.com really does have simple things you can do to be more productive. I already do a number of them - from consolidating my email in one place, to using an application launcher (I prefer ActiveWords for Windows, but I do use QuickSilver on my Mac). What do you do to stay productive?

Design a Halloween Web Page

I have to admit that Halloween is up there among my favorite holidays. We have so much fun with the costumes and the gore and trick or treating with the kids. Candy is my favorite food group. Corn mazes are my absolute favorite thing to do during the Halloween season.

The CSS we love and the CSS we hate

I found a fun post today on onderhond.com - HTML & CSS ups and downs. The idea is that like most of us, there are parts of building HTML and CSS Web pages that we love, and parts that we hate. Ironically, one of the things that I dislike the most about CSS I also like the most - specificity. This is the idea that the more specific your CSS selector is, the higher precedence it will have in what gets implemented. I hate this because when I'm not thinking about my CSS, I sometimes end up writing styles that are very specific (for instance

Who is your site for?

Audience is a critical part of Web development. And as Anders points out in [Re]Encoded, it's often forgotten. People don't remember their readers. To make a site usable, you need to consider your audience first. This includes how fast the pages load and the content as well.

Your Wedding Registry - Get Money To Pay For Your Wedding

Ask for money. OK, it's not the most ettiquette friendly thing to do for a wedding. These days weddings cost way more than people can afford and they need help. With the Internet you can now set up a wedding registry to help pay for your wedding.

Where Did Facebook Come From?

Facebook was a fast starter, popular from the very beginning. I'm sure when Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, he didn't think it would catch on so fast. It was just supposed to be used by him and his friends, but it grew and grew. Now it's one of the most popular social networking sites on the Net. Find out how Facebook got started and what happened next.

Free Web Design Class

Once you know HTML, you need to learn to design your pages. There's more to design than just throwing tags up on the page and hoping it looks okay. With this course, (available in weekly or daily installments) you'll learn how to design pages as good looking as any professional Web designer could.

dotPhoto Now Has Free Pix

"We're always reading your column to see what we can do better, and we noticed that the main "con" was that "Prints are not free." Well, now they are. Our customers can now get 250 prints by trying offers they might like to try anyway such as a Blockbuster subscription or a no-fee Discover card. They simply pick an offer and get 250 print credits (300 if they're joining for the first time.) That's about a year's worth of prints for free." Glenn at dotPhoto

Poll: What analytics do you find most important?

There are lots of different things you can track on a website. But some are more valuable than others. Which metrics do you find most valuable? Or if your statistics package doesn't offer them, which metrics would you like to get on your site?

Content driven websites

There are lots of different types of websites out there - product sites, marketing brochure sites, educational sites, etc. But the ones that people keep coming back to are content driven websites. As Website-Content-Providers.com explains, content driven sites are websites that are filled with content about a specific theme. And the more content you have on that theme the more interesting your site will be to readers.

Rollover Text - Hide and Show

Use this script to provide tooltips, FAQs, and other information. The tip is shown when the mouse rolls over the title. You can use any valid HTML element, even links.

Reader Question: Converting a large site from HTML to XHTML

How easy or cumbersome is it to convert a fairly large website from HTML to XHTML? (it looks to me as though there was no quick and easy way);

Interesting online CMS for existing pages

If you maintain a website that has several people who need to edit content, you can install and configure a high-powered CMS like Joomla!, or you can purchase Contribute for your content authors, or you can set up SnippetMaster on your PHP site and allow them to maintain it through that tool. I first learned of this tool a few days ago in the comments, and it looks pretty useful - especially if you have a lot of non-Web developers who manage content. Thanks Peggy for the heads up about this product.

Build a Perl RSS Aggregator with Templating Tools

In this third part of a five-part series on templating tools, you'll learn how to write a simple RSS aggregator, and more. It is excerpted from chapter three of the book Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition, written by Simon Cozens (O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596004567). Copyright © 2007 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

Staying Safe, Private and Secure Online, While Still Having Fun

Staying safe and keeping your personal information private are extremely important in this age of cyber crime and identity theft. What you write about and who sees your personal information can make all the difference when it comes to your safety and the safety of your family. Anyone can read your website, decipher who you are and where you live. You'd better hope it's not a cyber predator.

Reader Question: What is the benefit of using a template?

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Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions: Part 3

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