Web Programming

This section is all about web development, helping programmers to develop the best sites possible.

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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. ...

Cloudflare for Better Web Performance?

Web Hosting 13 Dec 2011

There is a company that offers a firewall service fir your web hosting, and it does this using the so-called 'cloud'. Furthermore, its starter ...

Capturing selected text in Javascript

29 Nov 2011

Here's how to immediately capture the text on your web page that a visitor has highlighted with their mouse. Select some text on this page ...

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 ...

Hit Counter

08 Feb 2011

Here's a simple hit counter: div#hitcounter { width:20em; padding:1em; margin:1em 0 0 1em; border:1px solid black; background-color ...

Rackspace Ups and Downs

Web Hosting 06 Jan 2011

You pay a lot of money for Rackspace managed hosting. You pay for decent hardware in a top-notch data centre, with great Internet connectivity ...

Google In-Page Analytics: analyse as you browse!

Web Hosting 16 Oct 2010

Google Analytics has been at the forefront of website analytics, ever since it acquired Urchin Stats and made it free of charge. There have ...

Geo-targetting your website

Web Hosting 16 Oct 2010

Does your company have a local presence in many different countries, or do you run a site where it makes sense to keep visitors from different ...

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 ...

Like Driving a Car

Web Hosting 26 Aug 2010

When trying to work out what to expect from the various web hosting platforms, consider an analogy with car ownership. Cloud Computing is ...

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) { ...