Posts Tagged 'Blogging'

I’ve been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through to development. The site is a silly idea based on a simple delivery website with the twist of allowing users to deliver their precious package by an animal of their choice, much like we did in the war with carrier pigeons. I started by working …

There are some great JavaScript graph libraries out there and one that’s recently come to my attention is Highcharts.com which is compatible with both the jQuery and Mootools frameworks. To get started point your browser here where you can download all the files you need including examples. Highcharts features include slick tooltips to reference points on your charts, it’s compatible with all standard web browsers, the setup for a graph as demonstrated below is simple and uses the JSON data type, there are also …

“Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework” shows you how to use the powerful Zend Framework to build websites with amazing speed and efficiency. Embracing a teaching strategy of learning by doing, showing you how to build website features you’ll actually want to use within your own websites. Among other topics you’ll learn how to manage data submitted through web forms, send e-mail through your website (both text and HTML), manage the user registration, login, and password recovery processes, and even create a simple social …

If you think you can just build a website and expect it to perform well you can think again. Getting a website to the top of search results is every marketing managers goal. Im going to run through five key points that will put you in good stead to getting the results your site deserves. SEO is often percieved as a dark art. If you start out well and get the basics done the quality of your content should speak for itself. However …

API Knowledge
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more …

Learning a new programming language can be daunting to say the least. I’ve recently cracked it when it comes to jQuery. I wouldn’t say Im a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I can successfully build applications. It wasn’t an easy ride learning a new syntax, I’m going to run over a few tips and techniques that i found useful learning both jQuery and PHP.
Take Time To Learn
In order to get into your new programming language you need time and commitment to perfect …

Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to work on a few personal projects. This allowed me to experiment more with techniques that I wouldn’t have normally used on client sites. During this time I was building a blogging platform, I soon found that it was difficult to present the data and make it look interesting to the user, this is where i discovered web thumbnails to achieve this.
There are a variety of web thumbnail services out there but the best and easiest …

My last blog post was on how to make an autosuggest tool with jQuery, no sooner had i pressed the publish button did i find my complete blog post on guidesigner.net I had spent time and effort writing that tutorial for the people who read my blog and for the love of the internet, there’s certainly no financial gain in blogging for me, I have a few Google ads but i do it purely because i’m passionate about the internet. to find the exact post …

I’ve been away for the last week. My wife and I bought a flat in North London and finally moved in on March 16th. So I’m currently without the internet and won’t have it until the end of March which is frustrating when I want to update my blog but simply can’t so please excuse my infrequent posts over the next few weeks.
Here’s a quick piece of code to simply display your feedburner stats on your blog. I’m yet to post my stats publicly on …

RSS feeds or ‘Rich Site Summary’ are standards when it comes to transporting data and using it on other sites, RSS feeds can be read in a web browser or subscribed to. Feeds are commonly refered to as ‘pulling’ rather than ‘pushing’ technology. ‘Pushing’ technology is publishing content and hoping that someone will pop by your site and read, listen or watch your content. RSS feeds are a pulling technology because visitors subscribe to your message and can retrieve it at any time. ‘Pulling’ technologies …

Over the past ten months there has been a change in blogging trends. The top five noticeable trends are firstly many blogs are starting to have multiple authors and contributors, this increases the amount of content and brings more variety to topics. This also opens the blog up to contain more subjects. A ‘mums blog’ for example is now being updated by the rest of the family and would typically contain more diverse content on the subject of family life. The second trend seems to …