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
Tracking online campaigns with UTM variables
21 Oct 2012
In homage to its previous existence as Urchin Stats, Google Analytics supports URL tracking options using the prefix utm_, which stands for ...
Auto-save browser forms with localstorage
11 Mar 2012
We all know how annoying it is to be half-way through filling in a web form, only to accidentally close the window or hit the back button. ...
UK PHP Conference 2012: a question of scale
09 Mar 2012
I was fortunate enough to attend the PHP UK Conference 2012, on Friday 24 February. The theme of the conference was about how well PHP scales ...
mod_pagespeed breaks things
06 Mar 2012
Google is respected in the web development community for writing simple, usable code and then making it available for re-use by everyone. ...
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 2011Google 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 2011Facebook 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 2010It'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 2010Here'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 2010The 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 2010There 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 2010Here'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
11 Jul 2010I 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 2010Facebook makes its new Graph interface sound so simple, but what about Facebook OpenGraph? This is where third-party web sites specify extra ...
