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Creating your Own HTML and CSS Framework

CNSQ — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:22:52 +0000

A lot of developers like to make use of a framework when they code. While frameworks can save you valuable coding time, I think using pre-made frameworks to sometimes be limiting & unproductive.

While this may appear harsh, it’s true. If you’re business is based on handwritten, neat & available code, I personally feel like it’s cheating to make use of someone else’s code. It’s also seldom as neat because it’s someone else’s coding style mixed in to yours. To make use of one of these frameworks requires that you either change the code each time to fit your style, or that you change your style of coding to fit theirs. You’ll also finish up deleting lots of what’s included in the framework because you certainly won’t need it.

Of coursework, frameworks are great for saving coding time. So why not give yourself a leg up by generating your own barebones version? Making a custom framework lets you get the best of both worlds: you’ll save time when beginning a new site & the code will be optimized & neat & exactly the way you code anyways.

WebM Video Format

CNSQ — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:35:36 +0000

With Google's introduction of the WebM video format for online video and streaming videos is good news for most web developers as this would give us more options on how we port the videos on our web projects.

According to Google, the WebM video format is efficient enough to be played on a range of devices like netbooks and smartphones. WebM is completely open source and licensed royalty free under a BSD style license.

More about the WebM video format is discussed in details at the Project WebM Project website

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Gearing up for HTML 5

CNSQ — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:16:29 +0000

As a web designer / developer, we should be semantic about the ways we do our HTML coding so that I can be readable and understandable for you as the designer/developer as well as a project team mate (if your working on a project development group or team). xHTML is currently the standard but there's a new standard that will become the future of front-end web development.

Enter HTML 5

To be brief HTML 5 is the upcoming web standard is the best standard format ever created because of its coding semantics and (in my opinion) a very SEO-friendly format at best. As of this writing the latest browsers are now adapting this format to ease the transition from xHTML to HTML5.

Articles on Introduction to HTML 5

HTML 5 Tutorials

Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

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Tips to Optimize Your Website for iPhone and iPod Touch

CNSQ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:53:14 +0000

Ordinary websites are receiving more traffic from mobile devices than ever before specially when Apple released the iPhone and the iPod Touch products. Even if you have no immediate plans to serve a microsite to your iPhone visitors, there are steps you can take to make your current website more iPhone friendly.

SQL for the absolute beginner

CNSQ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:23:54 +0000

Most modern web applications today interact with databases, usually with a language called SQL. SQL (Structured Query Language) is a language designed for interacting with relational database management systems (RDBMS), like MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite etc..

MySQL is the most common database management system and this tutorial would go over the basic on how to learn this amazing system.

Wordpress Web Optimization

CNSQ — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:01:54 +0000

Bloggers can optimize their blogs to consume less server usages and less bandwidth. There are different ways to do the web optimization for Wordpress, which includes installing plugins to monitor, tweak and speed up the loading speed of your Wordpress blog.

Besides installing the plugin, you can tweak your theme and remove the unnecessary features so that your Wordpress system consumes less resource and load faster.

Here are the 15 different plugins and tips to optimize your Wordpress site.

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What are Autoresponders and How to use them

CNSQ — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:31:05 +0000

An autoresponder is a computer programs or scripts that automatically answers e-mail sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex.

They are often used as e-mail marketing tools, to immediately provide information to their prospective customers and then follow-up with them at preset time intervals.

Autoresponders are also incorporated into electronic mailing list software, to confirm subscriptions, unsubscriptions, posts, and other list activities.

As a web developer, clients either provide their very own autoresponder script or sometime they want you to make one. If you are in bind for time then there’s a large list of autoresponder scripts both commercial and free ones.

If you’re having a hard time choosing which autoresponder script is for you then you can read this article on How to Choose Autoresponders for your online marketing strategies

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MySQLi Tutorial Screencast

CNSQ — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:36:46 +0000

The MySQLi Extension (MySQL Improved) is a relational database driver used in the PHP programming language to provide an interface with MySQL databases. MySQLi is an improved version of the older PHP MySQL driver, offering various benefits. The developers of the PHP programming language recommend using MySQLi when dealing with MySQL server versions 4.1.3 or later.

I found this neat Video screencast of how to use MySQLi with PHP.

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35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers

CNSQ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:34:44 +0000

This post is quite old but its worth blogging it again since these are essential tools for web designers and web developers who are using Mozilla Firefox. As we all know Firefox is a very popular browser because of it flexibility in terms of functionalities by adding plugins and/or themes.

And for those who are doing web designing and web developing either as a hobby or a as a profession and haven’t use these cool plugins should check the article by Webdesignbooth entitled 35 useful Firefox extensions for both web designers and web developers.

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Wordpress Theme Development Frameworks

CNSQ — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:57:10 +0000

If you build and develop Wordpress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a Wordpress development framework. A framework is designed to speed up the process of designing and coding a Wordpress theme by minimizing your time, and balancing your patience, on Wordpress’ back-end code that is repeated within every theme.

Smashing Magazine has featured several Wordpress theme development Frameworks on their site. If your a Wordpress Themer by trade then these can fastrack your workflow.

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