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Monday, February 1, 2010

Monday February 1, 2010

Today's News

How To Build a Web Site: Develop a Project Outline
You've been online, looked around at a few web sites, and reached the conclusion that you want a site of your own. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a project outline, use a wireframe and begin to design your website!
Best Coding Practices
In this article I will attempt to advise you on three simple things that should help you to become a better developer, regardless of your language of choice. This article will show you things that you probably already have thought of, and if you have, and have not implemented them, perhaps it's now time to start wondering why you haven't.

Featured Goodies

Creating and Installing Your Own URL Shortening Service
URL shortening services such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly, and poprl are very popular and have a wide array of uses across the Web. This article shows you how to install a popular URL shortening script on your own website.
Blogging with WordPress
Just about everyone has heard the term blog, which is basically an online diary which allows the blogger a medium to post thoughts on everything from recipes to politics to technical subjects. In this article we’ll take a look at one of the most popular free blogging tools on the web today, WordPress.

Beyond HTML

Customizing a MySpace Page for a Band
Most musicians today have a Web site which they use to market their CD's, band schedules and merchandise. Among the many marketing options, one approach is to customize a Web page on MySpace to use for your band. This week you'll learn how.
How to Build a Web Design Business
With all the HTML editors available, you too can build Web sites for profit. Time to start a small business? No! While it's easy to publish Web pages, a lot of planning is necessary to create a viable business. In this article you'll learn how.

Tutorials

How to Use CSS for Search Engine Optimization
Using external CSS files to determine the design attributes creates clean HTML code and will create better search engine rankings. With some knowledge of CSS you can change the code without destroying the visual layout.
How to use CSS for Flickerless Image Replacement
One major use of CSS is the styling of unordered lists used to hold menu links. This week, you'll learn how to remove the unordered list items, replace them with images and using two images per link, have a hover state that is flicker free in Internet Explorer.

Primers

Javascript Basics Part 5
Up until now we have been focusing on the language constructs of JavaScript: if statements, loops, functions, etc. In this primer we are going to take a step back and cover the inner workings of some of the native JavaScript objects: Strings, Numbers and Arrays.
Javascript Basics Part 6
This is the sixth in a series that will introduce you to the JavaScript language. In this article we will be talking about the Document Object Model or DOM for short.