At Dreamhost, we are all granted unlimited number of accounts for SSH access to the servers. The default console setting is a monochromatic one just like that in the old DOS style that it sores the eyes to look through the lines for something. Read their wiki the other day and found it’s possible to …
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Well, recently I have come across quite some tricks that will help web developers to spin out better web pages and one of them is this: actually, you don’t have to use <a name=”xxx”>xxx</a> for named anchors, in the example of <h2 id=”cottage”> <a name=”cottage”>grandpa’s warm cottage</a> </h2> you can merely rely on the ID …
Rarely heard of it from any of the popular web design / development sites (blogs, forums, info portals and so forth), there’s actually a neglectable implementation of the tag <comment> in both Internet Explorer Windows and Internet Explorer Mac. You are <comment>not</comment> browsing on Internet Explorer. You are not browsing on Internet Explorer. In IE, …
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SSI stands for Server Side Includes that is a default module in Apache web server. In essence, it provides a very simple mechanism to include one HTML file in another one, thus tremendously reducing redundant coding and increase the ease of later maintenance. So, to get 80% out of SSI, the only directive you pretty …
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Update: There’s actually one more font you can use freely and safely across platforms, that is Tahoma. Update: Alright, there’s actually 3 more web safe fonts you can use. Check them out here.
However it still needs my moderation before they appear on the page, but if they do, it is a valid backlink from the perspective of a search engine crawler. If you are looking for more dofollow blogs to comment on, please head to http://w3ec.com/dofollow, which makes more than 800 dofollow blogs searchable. Just search the …
Here I announce the launch of a Google Custom Search: DoFollow Blogs / Sites Search Engine. It’s a movement after Randa Clay. Thanks to Courtney and Colleen, I’m able to build up the do-follow list with more than 300 blogs that do follow your comment links! But please do remember to comment like a human, …
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There’s this 3 column layout, in 3 <div>s of course, and the left one as well as the right one is floated to both sides with a fixed width, say 200px. The center column is fluid in width, stretching as far as its neighbors’ borders. Now how can we make out a layout like this …
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Function object methods function.apply() and function.call() basically do the same job, that is to invoke the function as if it was the method of a specified object so that the ‘this’ keyword within the function is treated as that object rather than the global object. var x = 20; function f(s) { alert(this.x + s); …
Differences of function.apply() and function.call() in JavaScript Read More »
There’s essentially 2 ways for the DOM to detect any events, namely event capturing and event bubbling. Event capturing is a method that the browser captures the event from the top elements to the bottom where the event actually takes place. For example, the moment you click on an <img> which is the child of …
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Take a div of class translucent for example, you can literally make it translucent with the following CSS rules. It’s bulletproof, meaning that all the browsers will render it as you have specified. Enjoy! div.translucent { /* this class makes a window partially transparent */ opacity: .5; /* Standard style for transparency */ -moz-opacity: .5; …
Use the following line to keep the browser or console from warning the user of your program errors. window.onerror = function( ) { return true; } That’s it! 🙂
This petite JavaScript snippet defines several functions in the namespace of Geometry that will come handy when you need to manipulate window geometry, freeing you from the depressing chores of distinguishing different browsers for their distinct implementations of virtually the same features. /** * This module defines functions for querying window and document geometry. * …
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It’s downloadable from here. Amuse yourself with the screenshot presented below.
Site-wide linking merely passes any more credit to the linked pages than single page linking. Linking from the homepage of a site isn’t always that sweetest after all. So what we got? The answer is to find the perfect pages to build links on. There’re essentially 2 sorts of pages we’d love to have links …
Link(v.), only when it’s absolutely necessary, especially on your premier pages (landing pages from search engines) that have a touching relation with the sales. Every offsite link you make on the page, and even onsite links to other pages, dilutes the theme you intend to rank for in search engines, thus effectively bringing down the …
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Basically, PHP frameworks are programming layers that are promoted above PHP itself and that are much easier and quicker to deploy, normalizing and packaging 80% of the routines one is expected to work on without them, such as database interfaces. Therefore they free you from the chores of coding from very scratch line by line …
What is PHP framework & Who are the Best PHP Frameworks? Read More »
Be a happy webmaster, I must say to myself, to whom I owe the joyfulness of making websites. I shall from now on make websites for the only sake of my own enjoyment and confidence. And I believe it’s the only way to a successful website. It endures and delivers. It dominates. Because joyfulness itself …
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