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Cross browser com­pat­i­bil­i­ty is an op­tion to test the com­pat­i­bil­i­ty of your web site among the oceans of other sites. There is a pos­si­bil­i­ty of surf­ing out your web site from browser as for their wish or else lack of ef­fec­tive­ness in the web site. This is writ­ten for de­sign­er and de­vel­op­er to over come all the draw­backs of ear­lier test­ing op­tions. Being a web de­sign­er find­ing place in pop­u­lar brows­ing op­tion like fire­fox, sa­fari,chrome, in­ter­net ex­plor­er is im­por­tant. Browser test­ing is the (...)

Question & Answer web­sites is a great fea­ture in a web­site be­cause it will let your vis­i­tors to share their thoughts about any­thing un­der the sun. The ques­tions are over flow­ing as well as the an­swers wait­ing for them. Most of the time, the web users have some­thing in mind and want to ask about it, and an­swer should be given my the other web users. In this ar­ti­cle, I’ll be pre­sent­ing free and paid ques­tions and an­swer builder for your web­site. 1. Question2Answer Question2Answer is an (...)

Drew Conway and John Myles White of the web­site Dataists de­cid­ed to try rank­ing pro­gram­ming lan­guages us­ing a new sys­tem: the size of the com­mu­ni­ty and the num­ber of pro­jects. In Conway's blog post about the re­sults, he ad­mits that there's no per­fect way to find data about ei­ther mea­sure. He and Myles set­tled on us­ing the num­ber of ques­tions in StackOverflow as a mea­sure of the com­mu­ni­ty and the num­ber of pro­jects in Github as a mea­sure of the num­ber of pro­jects. Notably, the ranks from (...)

Episode 91 of The SitePoint Podcast is now avail­able! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@iFrog­gy), Stephan Segraves (@sseg­raves), Brad Williams (@williams­ba), and Kevin Yank (@sen­tience). Listen in your Browser Play this episode di­rect­ly in your browser — just click the or­ange “play” but­ton be­low: Download this Episode You can al­so down­load this episode as a stan­dalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #91: The Best Site of All Time (MP3, 59.2MB, 1:04:39) Subscribe to the (...)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote a blog post to­day about why the net­work com­put­er failed and how cloud com­put­ing has made it pos­si­ble to sup­port a Web-based op­er­at­ing sys­tem. Schmidt calls the an­nounce­ment of the Chrome OS note­book ear­lier this week one of the most im­por­tant de­vel­op­ments of his work­ing life. He says the news is tes­ta­ment to the ad­vance­ment of com­put­er science that al­lows de­vel­op­ers to use lightweight tools sup­port­ed by com­plex back-end sys­tems to cre­ate prod­ucts and ser­vices (...)

It’s Friday, so to­day’s roundup is “awe­some­ness.” Beloved de­sign­er Brian Hoff writes,  In a Sea of Designers: My ‘Best’ Advice Bookmark for life, sup­port­web­stan­dards.com Web type at last! by ed­i­tor/ty­pog­ra­pher John Berry Speaking of ty­pog­ra­phy, have you wan­dered over to For Print Only (FPO)? And, since we’re on the topic of type & let­ters, Fillerati is very amus­ing & makes hav­ing to de­sign with ip­sum lorem fun again! Holiday ad­vent­ness: A pho­to & sto­ry a day via Photoadvent.org (...)

Twice a mon­th, we re­vis­it some of our read­ers’ fa­vorite posts from through­out the his­to­ry of Nettuts+. Implementing AJAX tech­nol­o­gy can be a hit or miss thing. Do it well and you’ll have users rav­ing over the slick­ness it pro­vides to the gen­er­al user ex­pe­ri­ence, while, if you mess it up, you’ll be at the re­ceiv­ing end of their wrath. Here are 24 tips to guide through the pro­cess of im­ple­ment­ing AJAX tech­nol­o­gy with­in your web ap­pli­ca­tion. 1. Understand What it All Means First up, you (...)

This blog post is a ver­sion of Eric’s talk at our Chrome event on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. You can watch his talk on YouTube. - Ed. On Tuesday, we an­nounced a num­ber of up­dates to Chrome and Chrome OS. For me, the­se an­nounce­ments were among the most im­por­tant of my work­ing life—demon­strat­ing the re­al pow­er of com­put­er science to trans­form peo­ple’s lives. It’s ex­traor­di­nary how very com­plex plat­forms can pro­duce beau­ti­ful­ly sim­ple so­lu­tions like Chrome and Chrome OS, which any­one can use from (...)

Our December sale is in its sec­ond week and go­ing strong, so it’s been a busy one here at SitePoint. It’s al­so been busy on the rest of the Web: Google has just re­leased its end-of-year search zeit­geist: a sum­ma­ry of the most searched terms, as well as the newest and fastest-ris­ing terms from through­out 2010. This year, Google has added some nifty HTML5 vi­su­al­iza­tions of pop­u­lar search terms, so it’s worth check­ing out just for the geeky wow fac­tor. PHP 5.3.4 was re­leased to­day. It’s a (...)

InstantShift, a love­ly blog on web de­signs and de­vel­op­ment, is shar­ing a set of high-qual­i­ty so­cial book­mark­ing icons named "SocialShift". The set has icons of al­most ev­er well-known so­cial net­works like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Flickr and more. There are 82 items in the set in .PNG for­mat where each ob­ject comes with 3 dif­fer­ent sizes: 16*16px, 32*32px and 64*64px. Special Downloads: Ajaxed Add-To-Basket Scenarios With jQuery And PHP Free Admin Template For Web (...)

In this 4-min­ute video on web app ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty, you’ll learn a tech­nique that can help you im­prove the ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty of con­tent that loads in via AJAX. This video is from ­Think Vitamin Membership, a high-qual­i­ty video train­ing site, cu­rat­ed by us at Carsonified and Think Vitamin, with hun­dreds of short videos on topics like … Accessibility CSS3 Design Django HTML & CSS HTML5 JavaScript jQuery NoSQL PHP Ruby Ruby on (...)

The Noun Project col­lects, or­ga­nizes and adds to the high­ly rec­og­niz­able sym­bols that form the world’s vi­su­al lan­guage, so we may share them in a fun and mean­ing­ful way. The sym­bols on the site are and al­ways will re­main free. They be­lieve sym­bols can not be ef­fec­tive­ly shared with the world if they are not free. Requirements: - Demo: http://www.the­noun­pro­ject.com/ License: Creative Commons LicenseRelated PostsFreesound – Creative Commons Licensed Sounds Database560 Nice and Free Icons (...)

Sixteen days un­til Christmas, time to get those dig­i­tal Christmas cards de­signed and e-mailed. It’s equal­ly per­son­al to de­sign your own card from your­self or your com­pa­ny to mail to others as it is send­ing a reg­u­lar card signed by you. Personally I tend to do both, dig­i­tal and reg­u­lar card. The hol­i­day sea­son is a per­fect ex­cuse to spend hours(more then you al­ready do) in Photoshop de­sign­ing and try­ing out new things. You’ll do ex­tra your best know­ing you’ll be send­ing the re­sults to friends, (...)

by Stoney deGeyter Yeah, yeah, the search engi­nes are get­ting smarter about du­pli­cate con­tent... blah, blah, blah. It's no longer the prob­lem it on­ce was... yada, yada, yada. Google will get it all sort­ed out for you. Whatevs. I don't care how smart the search engi­nes are, it's no ex­cuse for lazi­ness. Sure, a maid may clean up your liv­ing room for you, but that's no ex­cuse to ask them to wipe your..., er, mouth, too. The in­tel­li­gence of the search engi­nes is your fall back. Your (...)

ExpressionEngine 2 is a won­der­ful CMS and ar­guably the most de­sign­er-friend­ly one out there, used by many well-known names like A List Apart, Andy Clarke and Veerle Pieters. Ironically, how­ev­er, its de­fault con­fig­u­ra­tion is poor­ly suit­ed for use in a pro­fes­sion­al web de­vel­op­ment work­flow, which usu­al­ly in­volves mul­ti­ple sites, servers, and de­vel­op­ers. This tu­to­ri­al will show you how to cus­tomize ExpressionEngine 2 so you can hit the ground run­ning with a rock solid yet flex­i­ble start­ing (...)

WordPress tags, as you know, are usu­al­ly used for adding speci­fic la­bels to posts. This ba­sic usage is use­ful in some cas­es for ex­am­ple when you want to gen­er­ate a nav­i­ga­tion sec­tion for your blog based on a tag cloud. In my opin­ion, this kind of use of tags as sim­ple de­scrip­tive la­bels is now ob­so­lete: tag clouds are al­most dead and there is no rea­son to con­tin­ue to use them. So you can im­age to use WordPress tags in a dif­fer­ent way to im­ple­ment WordPress themes with com­plex be­hav­iors (...)

As a web de­sign­er, is there any feel­ing worse than be­ing cre­ative­ly unin­spired and not be­ing able to com­plete or start your de­sign pro­jects? It’s frus­trat­ing, de­press­ing, and costs us in­come. Now imag­ine if there was a mag­i­cal, sure­fire tech­nique to make our cre­ative block in­stant­ly dis­ap­pear, giv­ing us in­stant cre­ativ­i­ty and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. That would be great, wouldn’t it? Well, too bad, be­cause there’s no such thing. Designer’s block hap­pens to all of us, and there’s no easy way out of it. (...)

It is no se­cret that there is an end­less sup­ply of plu­g­ins that will make WordPress high­ly ex­ten­si­ble, its one of the main rea­sons why WordPress is so pop­u­lar amongst de­vel­op­ers. They give end­less po­ten­tial to the most ba­sic in­stal­la­tion and with wise­ly cho­sen plu­g­ins will very easi­ly trans­form WP in­to a very pow­er­ful ap­pli­ca­tion. But, do we re­al­ly need to use plu­g­ins for the most com­mon and ba­sic tasks, like in­stalling Analytics or re-di­rect­ing your feed to Feedbuner? Or, do we re­al­ly (...)

Finding a name is an im­por­tant part of ev­ery pro­ject and this pro­cess is get­ting hard­er and hard­er as many do­main names are al­ready tak­en. PCNames.com is a web­site that helps find­ing a do­main in a more or­ga­nized way with the us­abil­i­ty it of­fers. First of all, the in­ter­face is pret­ty plain and this eas­es fo­cus­ing on the search. The search works as-you-type and dis­plays re­sults for the pop­u­lar ex­ten­sions in­stant­ly. If a do­main is not avail­able, a com­mon move is usu­al­ly brows­ing that (...)

I spend a lot of my life at the com­mand line and rarely use a plat­form other than lin­ux, and I’d like to share some of the com­mands that make my life easier while I’m look­ing at that flash­ing prompt. These in­clude man, the com­mand to rule all com­mands, tools to find things, view files, and to find changes be­tween files as well as how to work with re­mote files. Man Man is the Manual Page, and holds all the in­struc­tions for all the var­i­ous com­mands and how to con­trol them. Personally I often (...)