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Stylize Your Digg Count
A digg count normally comes in badge form I’m sure you’ve seen it. It shows how many diggs a web page has, and provides a link for you to digg it. Learn how to customize this in this tutorial.
Tuesday, 22nd April 2008

Installing Apache on Windows
Even though it is possible to do Web development and testing on a remote server, it is better to fully develop a new Web site on a local Web server, and then upload everything when it is finished, for many reasons: 1) Keeping the unfinished site off the Internet is safer, because as you begin developing the site, you probably have not put in all of your code for neutralizing any potential attacks against your site, including cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities...
Wednesday, 20th February 2008

Ecommerce Imagery: Persuading with Pictures
The power of images in making a sale has been well known in traditional marketing for a long time. This becomes even more important online when there's no physical product for users to handle. The images on your website alone have to work even harder to convey the true look and feel of your product.
Monday, 18th February 2008

Customizable Websites - The Definitive Guide
Several popular websites have let their homepages be customized by users. New web technologies have made it possible to add slicker customization interfaces so more sites are allowing users to customize their pages. But, should you do the same?
Wednesday, 6th February 2008

7 Usability Guidelines for Websites on Mobile Devices
More and more mobile phones users are browsing and searching the Internet on their handsets. The UK, for example, has neared saturation for mobile phones and many handset browsers can now handle sites designed for viewing on computers. Indeed 20% of UK mobile phone users now use the Internet on their mobile devices (source: 3G.co.uk1).
Wednesday, 30th January 2008

10 Common Errors When Implementing Accessibility
Web developers attempting to build accessible websites often make the same mistakes time and time again. Although they're trying their hardest sometimes their overzealousness gets in the way and actually hinders the accessibility of their websites.
Tuesday, 29th January 2008

WordPress Customization
A presentation on customizing WordPress. It gives an introduction to WordPress, and covers the basics of customizing themes.
Wednesday, 9th January 2008

RSS Tutorial
This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the ‘More Information about RSS’ section.
Sunday, 23rd December 2007

Caching Tutorial
This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of clarity.
Saturday, 22nd December 2007