As a first step toward marketing yourself better, take some time soon to write out the DNA of your brand. What can others -- your customers, employer, and colleagues -- depend on you for? OK, so what makes you different? What is your attitude? Have you co
XML library containing a comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of articles, tips, tutorials, and standards. XML protocols. XML tutorials for beginners and advanced developers.
I have been working with web standards based design for many years now and I see many rookie mistakes. When newbies get started with CSS/XHTML based web design, most of their work is focused on just getting the page to look like the Photoshop comp. While
One of the most important things a database needs is a key, or more precisely a Primary Key. This is a unique identifier for a row and is needed to be able to access data in a table. In Core Data this is taken care of automatically, however you will have
“Learning HTML and CSS has never been so much fun!” =Build a fully-featured web site from scratch using HTML =Let CSS add style to your website and help you with page layout =Learn the tricks to creating graphics especially for the web =Make your
What RSS is, how it can be used, how it came to be, how to use RSS syntax, how to make your first RSS document, Overview of the RSS <channel> element, overview of the RSS <item> element, how to publish your RSS doc, how to read other sites' RSS docs.
While it's easy for a human to figure out the meaning of a web page ("Mom! They sell pokemons!"), this usually isn't true for software programs. How much more could we benefit from the knowledge freely available online if our computers understood the info
For complete beginners, this primer is fantastic for getting a sense of the big picture, for touring the territory, and becoming familiar with the key concepts, languages, and resources. W3Schools also offers a huge number of free tutorials (quite compre
The Semantic Web = a Web with a meaning. "If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, RDF, schema, and inference languages will make all the data in the world look like one huge database" --Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the We
"OK, but how do I actually make web pages and publish them as a site?" We'll learn: how to create HTML pages with a text editor; bare bones of HTML page structure; how to save pages; how to link pages; how to upload pages to a live web server...
Web Design from Scratch is for everyone involved or interested in creating web sites - whether novice or expert. It will help you understand what makes web sites succeed or fail, and what can be done to increase the chance of success. You don't have t
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers reco
The way to be interesting is to be interested. You’ve got to...be good at noticing things...at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting, they’ll find you interesting...And...you share your ideas, you let people play with them and you’r
Google Custom Search Engines (CSE) are designed to be fast and easy to implement, and don’t require any coding, at least for basic features. The Custom Search Engine user interface deliberately keeps things simple, as does the accompanying documentation
Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster). Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?” Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t ha
Screen sharing is characterized by the ability to real-time share the contents of your computer screen with one or more remotely Internet-connected users.
Wanna be a better blogger? Then plug in to the blog bloke, your blog resource for web technology, blog tips, blogging ideas, social networking, podcasting, and all that...and more. Apparently, this bloke knows blogs...
Samurize isn't the most intuitive piece of software, so Lifehacker offers this tutorial on getting started. Samurize helps you to monitor computer and network usage, but also allows for great customization of your desktop. This tutorial shows how to hav
This article outlines the process involved in transforming the del.icio.us user API XML document into an HTML fragment. Because the XSLT processor is compiled, and therefore runs significantly faster than interpreted Javascript in the browser, I push as m
some time now, I’ve wanted to increase my understanding of microformats. If you’re unfamilar with the term or want to understand the basic purpose of this technology better, I suggest reading Phil Windley’s Microformats: Paving the Cowpaths. I read
WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
Microformats are (officially) a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards that are designed for humans first and machines second. ...Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much