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Designing a Clean Website Part 4: The Secondary Page

This week we’re going to finish up our series on how to develop a clean website by laying out a secondary page. We’re going to include a secondary navigation bar along the top of our design, as well as include all of our text for the section on one page.  This will eliminate the unnecessary loading of other pages when all that’s changing is the text.  It will allow the visitor to browse your site quicker and be less work for you to develop. When all is said and done, this is what you’ll have developed:...
C#

Common C# Build-Time Errors Part II: Inheritance and Interfaces

In our last lesson, we saw many of the most basic build-time errors in C#. In this session, we will look at some of the errors related to: classes subclasses inheritance Once we address some of the more common errors we will take a look at how you can fix them. #1 Hidden Method Name Creates Overload ... This conflict arises when a base class and its subclass have a function of the same name public class MyBaseClass { public void Function() { // function code goes here } { public class MySubClass : MyBaseClass...
CSS

A Look at Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design is widely thought of as a design trend, but it’s much more than that. It is an approach to web development that allows a website to break itself down smoothly across multiple monitor sizes, screen resolutions, and platforms, be it a computer, tablet or mobile device.  It allows the developer to create a site that is optimized for each platform, both in navigation, readability and load time. In this tutorial, we take a look at what responsive web design entails for the developer....
CSS

Designing a Clean Website: Navigation

There is one design style that can withstand the fluctuating trends that come and go in the design world, and that is to have a clean, simple, minimalist site. Think of sites like Apple, Amazon, and The New York Times. One thing you will notice that they all have in common is perfectly executed use of white space. However, there are some very subtle guidelines to follow or tips that you should consider when designing your own clean website. This tutorial will take you through the development process and...
PHP

PHP User Survey: Setting Variable Values and Reading from Tables

In Part I of this series, we started the process of creating user polls for a business web site. Part I gave the layout of the data layer and began the construction of the class file.  In this part we will continue with adding methods to the class file that will enable the administrator to set the variable values and read from the database tables. The setPollId($iPollId) method sets the value for the _iPollId variable.  Since the constructor method calls the setPollId($iPollId) method, we must...

Top 10 “Must Follow” JavaScript Best Practices

JavaScript went on to become cult right after its launch due to its extensive list of features. It also gave programmers the chance to give their webpages a more eye-popping look and website visitors were happier than ever. Despite the large number of developers that sing the praises of JavaScript, there are those Internet users who see its dark side. Webpages using multiple JavaScript codes are slow to load and overuse of JavaScript contributes to making webpages look cluttered and ugly. In no time...
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