In my previous article, we covered some of HTTP’s basics, such as the URL scheme, status codes and request/response headers. With that as our foundation, we will look at the finer aspects of HTTP, like connection handling, authentication and HTTP caching. These topics are fairly extensive, but we’ll cover the most important bits. HTTP Connections… Continue reading HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know
HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Learning the fundamentals of the World Wide Web is crucial, especially if you are planning to build web apps. And, HTTP is at the heart of any web application you could build. HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It’s a stateless, application-layer protocol for communicating between distributed… Continue reading HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1
A Beginner’s Guide to HTTP and REST
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the web. It’s used every time you transfer a document, or make an AJAX request. But HTTP is surprisingly a relative unknown among some web developers. This introduction will demonstrate how the set of design principles, known as REST, underpin HTTP, and allow you to embrace its… Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to HTTP and REST
The Best Way to Learn Python
Wondering how to learn Python on your own? There are plenty of Python tutorials and resources on Envato Tuts+! What Is Python? Python is more popular than ever, and it’s being used everywhere from back-end web servers to front-end game development and everything in between. Python is a true general-purpose language and is quickly becoming… Continue reading The Best Way to Learn Python
How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS
A few days ago, I received my invite to Google Music. While browsing the app, I noticed a tiny, but neat trick they use to create tabs and diagonal borders with plain-old CSS. I’ll show you how to do the same in your projects today! Prefer a Video Tutorial? Step 1: The Markup We begin… Continue reading How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS
20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Working with HTML forms can be somewhat daunting. They not only use some niche HTML elements, but also blur the line between static content and user interaction. Let’s review some things to remember when creating your next form. Good HTML forms require attention on at least four… Continue reading 20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners
30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} PHP is the most widely used language for server-side programming on the web. Here are 30+ best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals. We have also written posts like these for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. HTML & CSS 30 HTML Best… Continue reading 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners
How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum From Scratch
In this tutorial, we’re going to build a PHP/MySQL powered forum from scratch. This tutorial is perfect for getting used to basic PHP and database usage. Step 1: Creating Database Tables It’s always a good idea to start by creating a good data model when building an application. Let’s see what we are going to… Continue reading How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum From Scratch
Top 20 Most Usable Content Management Systems
There are plenty of options when picking a content management system for a development project. Depending on how advanced you need the CMS to be, what language it’s built in, and who is going to be using it, it can be a nightmare trying to find the “perfect” CMS for a project. However, some CMSs… Continue reading Top 20 Most Usable Content Management Systems
What Needs to Go in It and What Doesn’t
In this tutorial, let’s talk about the header.php file, an essential file for any WordPress theme. I’ll show you a header file example and give tips about what needs to go in it and what doesn’t. Introduction It’s important for you to know what exactly the header.php file should contain in a WordPress theme. We… Continue reading What Needs to Go in It and What Doesn’t
Add a Custom Column in WordPress Posts and Custom Post Types Admin Screen
In this tutorial we will see how to add a new column to the WordPress Posts management screen and in this column we will show the Featured Image of each Post. This new column will also be added in the management screen of any active Custom Post Type. Step 1. Activate Featured Images In this… Continue reading Add a Custom Column in WordPress Posts and Custom Post Types Admin Screen
36 Excellent Free Image Galleries: JavaScript, React, PHP, or CSS
* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} Here are some of our favourite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from JavaScript to PHP to jQuery and more… A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community! JavaScript Galleries jQuery… Continue reading 36 Excellent Free Image Galleries: JavaScript, React, PHP, or CSS
How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template
If you run a multi-author website, you may want to consider adding an author template to your website. Author templates help present more information about writers and make it easier for visitors to find other articles the author have written. In this post we will be breaking the author template down and showing you how… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template
How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template
If you run a multi-author website, you may want to consider adding an author template to your website. Author templates help present more information about writers and make it easier for visitors to find other articles the author have written. In this post we will be breaking the author template down and showing you how… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Author’s Page Template
40+ Blog Web Design Examples
When it comes to blog web design there is no rights and wrongs in regard of style, layout and colors. As blogs are often highly personal the design tends to reflect the persons individual taste, interests and preferences. In the examples I have listed below you can see how different a blog can look depending… Continue reading 40+ Blog Web Design Examples
10 jQuery Lightbox Plugins
jQuery is a powerful tool for web designing. It can transform a web page to an entertaining and high quality. Today we collect some wonderful lightbox plugin with many variations. These lightbox plugins became very popular because it is very easy to implement. Quick & Simple LightBox Plugin For jQuery – Boxer Boxer is a… Continue reading 10 jQuery Lightbox Plugins
Simple Loading Spinners Animated with CSS3
Before CSS3 transition, we see loading spinners in flash website, and then AJAX component with animated GIF. Besides, animated GIF, we have seen VML & Canvas spinners too. Now, we have pure CSS animated loaders/spinners created with just HTML markup and CSS3. Spinkit has a collection of good looking CSS spinners: SpinKit uses… Continue reading Simple Loading Spinners Animated with CSS3
Tutorial: Create A Countdown & Signup Coming Soon Page
Today I wanted to share with you a quick and easy way to building a countdown landing page with a simple email sign up form. To complete this demo I will be using a jQuery plugin called FlipClock.js to power the countdown clock and MailChimp to power the email sign up form. View The Demo… Continue reading Tutorial: Create A Countdown & Signup Coming Soon Page
20 Best Opencart Themes For Online Store 2014
Best opencart themes 2014 which helps you to open online store or ecommerce website in just a few minutes. Thes opencart themes has all required features. OpenCart is considered to be one of the most stable and potential platforms on the market. You just simply need to install it, select your theme add your products… Continue reading 20 Best Opencart Themes For Online Store 2014
It’s a Wild World Series: Stunning Photographs of Animals
Not so very many years ago, we had no idea what a Meerkat was unless we lived in certain areas of South Africa, even then, you had to go into the desert to see them. Nowadays, with the technological progress of both television and photography we are far more informed about animals in the wild.… Continue reading It’s a Wild World Series: Stunning Photographs of Animals
Using WordPress for Web Application Development: Features: Sessions
In this series, we’re taking a look at how it’s possible to build web applications using WordPress. Thus far, we’ve talked about how WordPress is a foundation (rather than a framework), its architecture, how we need to conceptually think of it when approaching it especially coming from other languages, and then we began talking about… Continue reading Using WordPress for Web Application Development: Features: Sessions
Elegance and Refinement of Mobile Interfaces based on Blurred Backgrounds
Being a basic photo effect for a long time, blurred backgrounds only recently have become a quite popular tool among web designers that had noticed its remarkable ability to help elements to stand out. Such approach rather readily, unobtrusively and quite naturally gives due prominence to content, icons and graphics that are placed on a… Continue reading Elegance and Refinement of Mobile Interfaces based on Blurred Backgrounds
10 Online Applications To Help With File Management
Managing file is a necessity of today’s world because we have to deal with the great amount of different types of files on a daily basis – be is documents, images, photos, multimedia, etc. therefore, it is important to have a system where you can manage all of your files without any hassle. Today, the… Continue reading 10 Online Applications To Help With File Management
Icons in the Modern Age
The number of icons we see on daily basis is amazing. They are everywhere around us, both online and offline. We love to use them. They enhance the aesthetic of our sites and can provide a better user experience. Sometimes however, we forget the reason behind using an icon, and that’s when it becomes easy… Continue reading Icons in the Modern Age