My portfolio has recently undergone a slight redesign. It wasn’t all that complicated given that there were only 3 pages. What was important in the process of the redesign was to understand why I was doing it, and to establish what goals I had. Why was I was doing it? Like most redesigns, the design [...]
Call it a toolkit, call it a library, whatever it is, over the years, I have perfected a PHP Form Creation and Validation Framework. It contains various functions needed to create all form entry elements and easy-to-use functions to validate them correctly. Here’s a list of features: Functions Easily create labels, text fields, checkboxes, radio [...]
What I had on my hands were a bunch of HTML files. Each of these HTML files had pictures, and I’m damn sure a lot of them didn’t have ALT tags, something essential for accessibility (and also helps with SEO). Using Adobe Dreamweaver (and possibly Macromedia versions of Dreamweaver), you can do searches and find [...]
Having seeing the effects of an SQL Injection attack, I thought I’d be able to tackle some tips on preventing SQL Injections in the first place. All it takes is one vulnerability to affect your entire software application. If the vulnerability is general enough, you could be the target of scripts that scour the web [...]
I’ve gone through experiences recently with certain web hosts that reminded me that making assumptions when it comes to host+software compatibility is a big, big mistake. What had happened was that I had read the software requirements before purchasing a custom web applications (think something along the lines of a forum, or newsletter software) and [...]
This is a continuation on the first article I wrote on developing HTML emails and email templates. Let’s jump right into some tips: Use HTML markup to style whenever possible. Use attributes like background=”” whenever possible. CSS backgrounds will incorrectly render in GMail, so whenever applicable, make sure your background will work if applied to [...]
Now you’ve gotten through Part 1 of CSS Layout Basics and you understand the basic principles behind CSS, we can get a little deeper. Not all CSS requires stylesheets. Apart from a stylesheet, there are two ways to incorporate CSS: inline CSS and page CSS. Inline CSS Inline CSS is referred to when CSS is [...]
When developing websites, you’ll often be tasked with launching emails from your web server to a variety of destinations, whether they’re internal or external. These emails can be confirmation emails, newsletters, etc. However, sometimes they get caught in various spam filters, and since many spam filters are different, it’s hard to pinpoint what you need [...]
In the event you’ve figured out that you want to ditch table-based layouts and build CSS-based layouts, but you just don’t know where to start, I’m here to help. I won’t go too indepth, but I’ll cover the basics. You will need to have two files. An HTML file, and a CSS file. Both of [...]
This article is part 3 of our 10 web development tips series. If you’re interested in part 1, click here, or in part 2, click here. These 10 tips will deal more with CSS and developing your HTML base template from the design. 1 – Use ID instead of CLASS wherever possible In the example: [...]
