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    Web design and promotion: 5 must-read guidebooks

    Posted February 13, 2010 - 9:48 pm

    Learn the latest techniques for designing modern Web sites -- and making sure visitors can find them.

  • Web developers: There's no excuse for device incompatibility

    Posted February 9, 2010 - 7:24 pm

    Browsershots, Cross Browser Testing, and Perfecto Mobile are indispensible for testing for device compatibility

  • Drupal's Dries Buytaert on Building the Next Drupal

    Posted January 18, 2010 - 12:10 pm

    Drupal's creator discusses new features in the popular content management system and the tradeoffs of innovation.

  • Ruby on Rails on track for major upgrades

    Posted January 12, 2009 - 12:03 pm

    It is looking like a very busy year for the popular Ruby on Rails Web application development framework, with multiple enhancements anticipated in an upgrade due this month, followed by a merger later on with the Merb Web framework.

  • Google tests ActiveX alternative

    Posted December 9, 2008 - 10:29 am

    Google has released new software designed to let Web developers write more powerful programs that can work directly with an operating system, rather than having to be run through a browser.

  • Web Application Security Best Practices

    Posted November 24, 2008 - 12:20 pm

    When building a web application there are common practices which should be followed to enhance security. In addition to the basic security of the server operating system and runtimes, web developers should follow accepted guidelines to write secure applications.

  • Programming with multiple databases

    Posted October 17, 2008 - 12:10 pm

    In the past, data was mostly stored on massive computers like mainframes. Today it's common to have databases spread across many smaller servers. Benefits include cost reductions, redundancy, and scalability. This typically adds some level of complexity to the applications which need to access these multiple databases.

  • Opera to Web developers: Come to MAMA

    Posted October 15, 2008 - 3:29 pm

    Opera Software on Wednesday revealed a search engine that indexes structural information about Web pages so Web developers and standards bodies can see what technologies are being used to build Web sites and how they are being used.

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    Silverlight: Is It the Ultimate Web Site “Stickiness” Solution?

    Posted October 2, 2008 - 8:32 am

    If there’s one thing that’s getting Web developers and designers excited these days, it’s Microsoft's Silverlight, touted to make Web sites "sticky."

  • Developers praise Android at Google I/O

    Posted May 29, 2008 - 9:04 pm

    Developers praised the programming experience and the potential of Google's Android mobile platform at the Google I/O conference as the company emphasized its flexibility and showed cool new features.

  • Old-School Web Design - Fagetaboutit!

    Posted May 30, 2006 - 4:38 pm

    Web design in the early days was full of potential pitfalls. You couldn't make pages too wide, or people would have to figure out how to scroll left and right. You couldn't make pages too long - people would miss information that fell "below the fold". You had to limit the colors you used, or what you thought was blue might show up as red on a user's screen. And creating multimedia was often a waste of effort, because most people had slow web connections.

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