I’ve been really lacking in keeping my blog up to date and current, mainly from time to time I can’t think of anything to write about. It’s been a few week since I posted anything so here’s a list of ten Jquery plugins that peaked my interest and may be a use to you.
When it comes to making a web development platform, I usual recommend to people to set up a separate computer as a home server, some place where you can store their websites as they develop them, no need to pay for hosting cost while in the development phase and make good use as a backup server, so that in the case of their main system crashes, you haven’t lost any current or past projects. But those who are not fortunate enough to set up a second computer, you can install a Wamp server to your desktop and program your applications locally.
This tutorial is for those web developers working on a windows machine, I will later show you how to set up Lamp server on a Ubuntu (Linux) server.
Being a web developer is more than just knowing html and some server languages; problem solving is a big part of the overall job description. You have to be able to provide alternative solutions to the same problem that may arise. I demonstrated earlier how to load dynamic content from external html pages; but what if you were providing content from an alternate source. What if you were provided data that has to be loaded dynamically from another source? For instance an xml file or a database, in this post and the next one, I will be showing you how you can load dynamic data from both an xml file and from a mysql database.
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This isn’t really a tutorial it’s more of a snippet, a little bit of code to add to any website, I thought it would be useful to those just starting out; web developers. This post was inspired by a video tutorial titled “Quick and Dirty Ajax”, seeing 15 Days Of jQuery.
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This tutorial was inspired by wordpress and ruby on rails DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle
Why would anyone not use a template system in web design in the first place. It saves you on time of repeating arbitrary tasks and increase your development productivity. When is a template system not nessary? When a site consist of only a few pages where there is few to none changes based on a month to month updates.
Now I am an advocate of adobe products and Dreamweaver is a terrific wyswyg editor but I’m not a fan of their template system, it has few minor bugs and unnecessary nuisances that aren’t required. So when I develop a medium to large scale site, I think about how to make the site scalable for future changes, one of the ways I do that is by cutting out time wasters. A time wasters like imputing the same menu on 10 to 100 pages that all look the same. A template helps reduce my development time and frees up time for debugging and finishing the small details. So, I use a modal template system, making all the repeatable parts into their own blocks and stacking them where I need them.
Here are a few Photoshop brush sets I think you will be interested in. I would like to say thanks to the people at deviant art and psdtuts for coming up with some great brush sets. Once or twice a month i will be adding in resources for developers and designers to use to increase there toolkits.
