One of the most important thing when developing websites is page loading speed, to load as quickly as possible, especially in the case of large websites with lots of CSS code where faster loading means increased usability and user satisfaction. CSS Compression tools improves your load time performance by removing comments from code, placing each [...]

Google is taking site’s loading speed into consideration in determining its ranking. Even though this will not land a big impact, it is still something we (webmasters) should really look into. The reason is pretty simple – majority of visitors are usually in rush and no one is fond of waiting half a century before [...]

Bokeh effect is the blurred or out of focus part of the image. This effect has become very popular recently, and is normally seen in photography mostly around the light sources. Many designers have made use of this effect in web design to bring the object into sharper focus while making the background visually appealing. [...]

Welcome back to part two of our email UI faceoff – I recently wrote about the usability testing process, and set up a test for comparing the usability of Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail. Well, the results are in and we’ve got some pretty interesting feedback from the test – you can get directly to [...]

Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant shopping cart and ecommerce websites. [...]

 
Guest post by Manny Hernandez
Diabetes Hands Foundation

JavaScript is very welcomed by the web developer or designers since many modern techniques relied on the world wide web. They need always follow variouse web techniques and scripts for best user experience. Then following we prepared some basic but helpful JavaScript tutorials maybe you wanted.

Bottom Slide Out Menu with jQuery

In this tutorial it [...]

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In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).