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Free tips, tutorials, innovative tools and techniques for building and improving web sites.

Use Firebug Lite To Debug Cross-Browser Issues

Sunday, 14 February 2010 Browser Side

Firebug LiteDebug web pages in any browser where you want them to work perfectly using Firebug Lite - a lightweight cross-browser version of the popular Firebug web developer extension to Firefox browser that gives you the ability to troubleshoot and fix web design cross-browser compatibility issues.

 

Pure CSS Fish Eye Menu

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 HTML+CSS Techniques
Pure Css Fish Eye Menu

A pure CSS technique to transform your icon menu into an interactive zooming icon navigation menu inspired from Mac OSX Dock with fish eye effect. One of many ways to style html list tags into interactive, usable, and accessible menu using pure CSS.

 

Virtuemart Product Slideshow 1.015 Released

Saturday, 21 March 2009 Virtuemart Product Slideshow
Virtuemart Product Slideshow Logo

Pleased to announce the release of Virtuemart Product Slideshow version 1.015. This fixes issues with encoded ampersands in url and contains minor changes to improve usability. It is recommended to update your slideshow especially on sites with non-SEF URLs.

 

16 Very Useful Smarty Scripting Tips and Techniques to Make Templates Smarter

Sunday, 08 March 2009 PHP Programming
Smarty Tips and Techniques

A compilation of useful Smarty template scripting tips and techniques to help build smarter dynamic templates for PHP programmers and template designers. Great practical resource for people who are learning to script Smarty templates. Saves valuable time on research.

 

How to Boost Alexa Rank in 2 Steps

Wednesday, 18 February 2009 Web Site Promotion
Boost Alexa RankHere are 2 simple steps to improve your Alexa Rank the ethical way by using tried and tested white hat techniques that would also effectively increase your web site traffic, popularity and earning potentials.
 

Adding Alexa Widgets Effectively

Saturday, 14 February 2009 Web Site Promotion
Alexa widget

Never thought that these free traffic rank badges would help improve Alexa Rank on top of other great benefits it provides. But beware of the consequences when not placed well on your pages.

 

Firefox 3.0.6 AutoComplete Bug

Saturday, 07 February 2009 Browser Side

Firefox bug imageFirefox 3.0.6 has been released but autocomplete bug still lives. Get rid of the bug when working on your JavaScript project.

 

5 Solutions to Url Encoded Slashes (%2F) Problem in Apache

Saturday, 24 January 2009 Web Scripting

Script generated url structure based on actual data coming from external sources such as user input and rss feed, may result in a "404 (Not Found)" error in Apache especially when it contains url encoded slashes. Here’s why...

 

Using Alexa Site Widgets To Improve Traffic Ranking

Tuesday, 06 January 2009 Web Site Promotion

More recent observations indicate that placing an Alexa site widget on a web site can improve the site's traffic ranking. Here are some of the reports.

 

How to Start a Blog Quickly

Monday, 22 December 2008 Website Creation Tips

Start a blog without spending money or learning webmaster skills. All it takes is a few minutes of your time and the passion of sharing your thoughts.

 

Pure HTML+CSS Slideshow

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 Web Scripting

Learn to create elegant cross browser slideshows with clickable images, captions and links using pure HTML and CSS codes.

 

Dynamic Text Gloss Effect

Sunday, 23 November 2008 Web Scripting

Enhance your web pages with this small JavaScript to dynamically add a Gloss Effect on your normal header texts.

 

Hide Referer Information using PHP and Javascript

Sunday, 16 November 2008 Web Scripting

Hide browser referer information with this piece of PHP code sparkled with little javascript to fix IE back button and learn how to implement it on your web site.

 

Fix IE Back Button when Redirecting

Saturday, 15 November 2008 Web Scripting

This simple method is useful in situations where you need the IE browser to redirect to other urls and need the back button to bring user back to the origin page.

 

The Easy Way to Create Websites

Saturday, 23 August 2008 Website Creation Tips

Here is a very efficient approach to make website creation smooth and less hassle by organising the usual and familiar tasks to resolve information dependencies into 4 easy steps.

 

Web Design News

  • Web grid systems help front end coders to layout a document faster. In this article I am presenting a percentage based grid system that is included in the Easy framework's CSS.
  • This plugin allows you to browse easily through the list of items with pagination controls. It is very easy to implement and very lightweight so it might come in handy to use in your own projects.
  • I have been working on a little script for a client of mine, that required product image magnification. The task was to create a script that will allow users to see large details of the product while moving cursor over medium sized image. During the process I decided to create a jQuery plugin and share it with you guys!
  • In this article I am going to analyze what a perfect login page or login form should have. Also you are able to download the pure CSS3 login form for free.
  • In this article I am going to use some of the CSS tricks to create a calendar icon you can use for your blog posts or something similar. It is important to notify that there are no images used here and the markup couldn't be simpler than it is.