Latest Blogs In "Development" On DeVSeO
The Complete Guide To Commenting On Any Blog
I read this post this morning and it cannot be closer to the thruth of it. I'll sum it up below but you should really go ahead and check it out and read the whole post for yourself as it's very intuitive. The Complete Guide to Commenting on Web Design Blogs Read the Whole Article :-) If you've posted comments on blog posts before have you always read the whole post before commenting? I will admit that I have not always done so, and generally had good reason....
Posted Wed 7th Jul @ 14:19 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Star Rating Script PHP And MySQL Tutorial
If you have been to this blog before you may know that I have released a script written in JavaScript that allows you to easily add star ratings to anything you require. You can find that blog here.However, in that blog I didn't go through the steps required to actually save the rating. After being contacted asking for help on the matter and wanting to write an nice introduction to PHP and MySQL I felt that this would be a good time to kill two birds with one stone. So, read on to learn how to w...
Posted Fri 18th Jun @ 08:42 by ahallicks | Comments 3
Simple CSS Debugging Methods
Firebug, Firebug, Firebug!If you are a web developer and you haven't heard of Firebug you need to get it now! It is a free Firefox addon that lets you traverse the contents of any web page, view the CSS, view the javascript, debug your scripts and edit them live. Basically, everything you could want from a development tool. And the best part is that it's free!All you need to do to use it is download it/install it (if you are not using Firefox you can download the Lite version (installation instr...
Posted Tue 15th Jun @ 10:37 by ahallicks | Comments 0
How Has Social Media Helped You 'Find The Web'?
Since the introduction of Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms it's safe to say that the interaction on the web has risen by a substantial factor. I cannot think of a single commericial industry that either hasn't had or couldn't have a positive impact from reaching into the social media stream. A brilliant example of this can be found here entitled "How Social Media and the Web Helped Avatar Make $1 Billion". This story is quite amazing and just shows the extent to which social...
Posted Thu 13th May @ 12:16 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Tweetywall - YUI Plug-In To Put Twitter Live On Your Website
Demo Have you ever seen those sites that have Twitter posts sprinkled all over the place? Would you like to have access to this same functionality without having to do anything? Here at DeVSeO we use Twitter for a number of things and in a number of places. I decided to help you guys out by turning one of ours scripts that we use here into a fully customisable release so that you, too, can have Twitter on your own site with absolutely no coding ability whatsoever. It couldn't be easier. All y...
Posted Mon 11th Jan @ 14:20 by ahallicks | Comments 0
IE6Update And Pushup For The Web
Recently I have been conducting a fair bit of research regarding a finite resolution to one of the largest issues faced by web developers and web companies alike. Internet Explorer 6. The biggest question I have asked myself is "How on earth has this browser been around for so long, and why is it still here?".It is now officially the oldest and yet still widely-used browser around, possibly because of the fact that it comes installed as standard on out-of-date Microsoft computers owned by large...
Posted Mon 17th Aug @ 15:29 by ahallicks | Comments 0
YSlow: How To Use Yahoo's Optimisation Tool Part 2 :: Development SEO
In the last installment of this tutorial I went through the first few parts of YSlow that tell you how your site is performing when it comes to page loading. After reducing the number of HTTP requests by reducing the number of files and images that the browser has to call and load from the server there are still a number of optimisation practices you can use to better optimise the front-end performance of your sites.Adding An Expires HeaderAn expires header is basically a header that can be set...
Posted Mon 17th Aug @ 15:25 by ahallicks | Comments 0
YSlow: How To Use Yahoo's Optimisation Tool Part 1
What Is YSlow?>YSlow is Yahoo's answer to showing you exactly why your web page is not performing to the highest possible standard in terms of speed, through optimisation. The add-on for Mozilla Firefox was written by Steve Souders and his team and Yahoo and aims to teach you good web practices in helping visitors get the best of your site.The first point to make is that there are two ways in which you can optimise your web site: on the back end, and on the front end. If you are running a CMS...
Posted Mon 17th Aug @ 15:24 by ahallicks | Comments 0
New Tools Coming To DeVSeO
We have a number of tools that are currently in development and a few that have been completed and will be a available for use by our members for free very shortly! What Tools Will We Have? A few of the tools you will be able to use include: A sitemap generator that will produce downloadable versions of a sitemap for any given domain in XML and HTML format with the ability to download the whole lot as a zip file An SEO Tool that you can use to see how well your site is looking in ter...
Posted Mon 17th Aug @ 15:22 by ahallicks | Comments 0
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