A challenge that many website owners face is how to supply continuously fresh content for new and repeat visitors to peruse. It can be a very time-consuming task to manually upload regular updates. Fortunately, there is an easy way to showcase free, readily available news content on a wide variety of topics. We will examine a quick and effective method of incorporating RSS (Really Simple Syndication) coding in order to add news content to any site. First, let’s look at what RSS is, and how it works....
Coda by Panic bills itself to be "one-window web development." I have been a web developer (or at least playing with code) for the past six or seven years, and purchased Coda about a year ago. It took me almost this long to realize the beauty that lies within the code editor when you truly use it as a one-window web development system. Today, I'm going to walk you through setting up your next WordPress site so you can develop locally, deploy to your live server, and maintain the code base and providing site maintenance....
With HTML5 and JavaScript, you can implement native drag and drop functions within the Web browser. This is one of the emerging HTML5 tools that promises to make websites more interactive without relying on additional technologies such as Flash. In this tutorial we will create a simple page with images the user can drag and drop into designated areas. Create an HTML5 Web Page ... Create an HTML file for your drag and drop function. Use the following basic outline, with sections for JavaScript and CSS...
Savvy web developers often use vendor prefixes to try out the latest browser styles before the styles have been approved by the W3C and turned into a standard. By specifying a browser or vendor prefix within your CSS stylesheet or style property within a JavaScript function, you can gain control of how an element will render within a specific browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc.). This gets you access to these browser’s newest and coolest styles and elements. This article will illustrate how to...
In last week’s lesson, we looked at the variables and methods we would need to interact with the advertising database tables. This week, we’ll examine the code for the data object class file and how the other parts of the site will use these methods. First, we include the database connection string information. This information includes the database server name, cursor location and other pertinent information. Since this information is used throughout the site, it is usually stored in a separate...
This week we're going to finish up the portfolio slider on our homepage that we have already started. At this point, if you view your index.php file and scroll down to the secondary screen it should look something like this. We’re close, all we have to do now is plug in our jQuery elements and then add some CSS to make our secondary portfolio slider screen responsive. Go ahead and download the Java files you'll need from here, keep the js directory in your root folder and check out what out the image below...
The HTML5 Server-Sent event model allows you to push realtime data updates from the server to the browser. In this tutorial we will work through the process, with the EventSource object handling received data and writing it to the page. We will use HTML5 and JavaScript at client side, with PHP at server side. With existing models such as AJAX, the code in a Web page would continually ask the server to supply new data, but the onus was on the client to request the information. With Server-Sent requests, you...
With CSS3, developers and designers can utilize an enhanced range of options for Web page backgrounds. New options include the ability to use multiple background images, to specify size properties for background images, and to define background origin and clipping in terms of the CSS box model. In this tutorial we will work through various options using these new techniques, demonstrating the CSS syntax for each one. Create a Page ... Create a Web page with a single element and an area for your CSS declarations...