How to choose a web host

There are thousands of companies around the world that sell hosting services. Most of them charge per month, but price should not be your only criteria when choosing a host for your pages. You should keep in mind the followings and then find the service that provides the quality you look for at the most … Continue reading How to choose a web host →

Introduction to XML

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a meta-language built on SGML. XML can be used to describe data (for example database data) and can be also used for creating other markup languages. HTML was rewritten in XML and the result was XHTML. With HTML tags, users can format or style pages. With XML users can only … Continue reading Introduction to XML →

Firefox Campus Edition

Mozilla released recently a new version bundle of firefox browser: Firefox Campus Edition. Campus edition is not a new version of Firefox. It is just the common firefox browser with some add-ons (extensions) for better music management and social networking. The add-ons that come pre-installed with Campus Edition are: Zotero, FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon. Zotero helps … Continue reading Firefox Campus Edition →

Vote for trashing all IE hacks!

Nick La wrote a very interesting post for trashing all IE hacks. Web designers spend a lot time on trying to "hack" their site to appear properly on Internet Explorer 6 (Internet Explorer 7 is messy too, but not as IE 6). CSS rendering in IE 6 is extremely bad and web designers have to … Continue reading Vote for trashing all IE hacks! →

Flock 0.9 Review

Flock is a browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Flock creator call it "the social browser" as it enhanced multiple automations for social networking and web 2.0 services like Flickr, Blogger, Twitter etc. Flock comes with a built-in RSS aggregator for keeping an eye on your favorite feeds and works with almost any of Firefox add-ons. … Continue reading Flock 0.9 Review →

Create a simple PHP script and MySQL database for user authentication.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a simple script using PHP for user authentication. User data are stored in a MySQL database. So, lets create the database first and one authenticated user called "test": create database auth; use auth; create table authorised_users ( name varchar(20), password varchar(40), primary key (name) ); … Continue reading Create a simple PHP script and MySQL database for user authentication. →

We love small icons :-)

As anyone who is in graphics and web design, we love small icons. There are many resources for such icons out there (like FamFamFam which has great collections), but the icons are few and all of them illustrate the sames: arrows, feed icons and in general anything that is needed for making a web site … Continue reading We love small icons 🙂 →

Easter eggs for mint 2

Mint is the famous web-stat program by Shaun Inman. If you use it for tracking your site stats, log in to your mint installation and try the following: Easter Egg 1: After you log in, type ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? b a and look on your bottom right corner in your … Continue reading Easter eggs for mint 2 →

5 tips for a nice-looking favicon

Favicon is the shortcut icon that is shown next to the url of a website or next to site's name in browser tabs. You can see our favicon in the screenshot above. To create a great favicon you should consider these: Select the image you want to use for your favicon and trim part of … Continue reading 5 tips for a nice-looking favicon →

Gradients for shiny web 2.0 logos

Here are five shiny gradients to use for your web 2.0 designs. Note that colors used in these gradient are in RGB mode. The color codes are written in the screenshots. We used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to make the gradients, so if you use a different program, colors may be a little bit different due … Continue reading Gradients for shiny web 2.0 logos →