Web Programming
This section is all about web development, helping programmers to develop the best sites possible.
The key elements of successful web development:
Performance - Interface - Maintainability
Make Your Headlines Shine
[06 Oct 2011]
Here we learn how to create a text shadow affect, using only a bit of CSS. div.box{ background-color:#000000; } h4.glow { padding ...
Google Web Fonts
[12 Sep 2011]Google Web Fonts lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Web Fonts API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on ...
Facebook Commenting for Websites
[06 Mar 2011]Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and ...
Media Temple: no more FOLLOW_LOCATION
[26 Sep 2010]It's not unusual for web hosts to make changes to their platform, for security reasons or whatever, but this one on Media Temple's (gs) platform ...
Frame-busting
[26 Jul 2010]Here's some code you may find useful if your website is stuck in an iframe inside someone else's site: if(top.location != location) { ...
How to Flatten a PHP POST Array
[19 Jul 2010]The situation is this: You have a PHP script that takes POST data, and you need to pass that data on to a remote server. How do you do it? ...
Show Bots the Content to Index
[17 Jul 2010]There are a few ways to tell bots whereabouts the content is on your web page: Google ad section targeting: What is section targeting and ...
Facebook Bot User-Agent
[17 Jul 2010]Here's a user-agent you'll need to add to your list of robots: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) I ...
Efficiently decode a short url
[10 Jul 2010]I am building a reference of short urls, and for each one need to record its final destination url, server software and page title. Curl almost ...
Behind the bit.ly url
[08 Jul 2010]
If you want to know more about what a bit.ly url refers to, here is a PHP function that may be of use to you. It first checks what the destination ...
Implementing Facebook OpenGraph
[25 Jun 2010]Facebook makes its new Graph interface sound so simple, but what about Facebook OpenGraph? This is where third-party web sites specify extra ...
Sitemaps in robots.txt File
[08 Jun 2010]
Give your carefully created sitemap a mention in your robots.txt file. You simply use this format: Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap ...
GIMP: Removing Background From Photo
[06 Jun 2010]
You can use the GIMP image manipulation program (with some dexterity and a lot of staring) to remove the background from a photo. The best guide ...
Media Temple Proactive Against DoS
[18 Jan 2010]
I have some mixed opinions of Media Temple tonight. On the one hand, I was completely unable to access swinny.net (IMAP/SSH/HTTP) or domains ...
Google's Spooky Robots
[31 Oct 2009]
Google has enhanced their robots.txt file, in a hope of getting more treats and fewer tricks. Let's see if the kids do as they're told! Judging ...
