Advanced JavaScript for Web Developers: onClick and onMouseOver JavaScript functions are very useful for web developers who wish to add interactivity to their websites. The OnMouseOver, OnLoad, and OnClick JavaScript functions are explained--with examples--in this tutorial.
Accessible JavaScript 101: Rotating Banners As a web developer, we want everyone to be able to access our pages even when JavaScript isn't available to them. This tutorial will show you how to do just that with a Rotating Banner script.
Featured Goodies
WordPress: A Web Developer's Tutorial At some point in every web developer's career, one sits down, breathes a heavy sigh, and gets the feeling "I've done this all before, and too many times". Wouldn't it be nice instead to let someone else do much of that work and support? Enter the WordPress CMS!
CSS Basics: Color Properties In the last article, we discussed what Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are, and how to apply them to documents. In this part of our CSS Basics series, we will discuss how to apply CSS color properties.
Beyond HTML
JavaScript Tutorial: Build Your Own Image Viewer with Scrollbar In our last article we showed you how to use JavaScript to make a space saving image scrollbar complete with a pseudo animation effect. In this tutorial we are going to extend the image scrollbar into a full image viewer with scrollbar.
Web Development: The Need to Know Basics Many articles, books and websites explain the basics of Web development, but they require a lot of time to read (and re-read) to understand fully. This article is not going be like that--it was written to provide quick answers to the basic development questions that many beginning developers need to know.
HTML and Graphics Tutorials
How To Build a Website: Develop a Project Outline You've been online, looked around at a few web sites, and reached the conclusion that you want a site of your own. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a project outline, use a wireframe and begin to design your website!
How To Build a Website: HTML, CSS and HTML Editors Now that you know how to define the purpose of your site, create a project outline and create a file folder structure, it's time to move on. In this tutorial, you will learn about HTML editors, HTML tags, CSS, and how to create your first web page using the infamous "Hello World" programming example.
Primers
Making a Wizard with JavaScript In this installment we’ll create a wizard for subscribing to some websites. We’ll use JavaScript to manipulate display and styles to make it slick and easy to use without having to post anything to the server until we are finished.
Checking Your Work: Validating Input -- The Cool Stuff In the first part of this series Checking Your Work: Validating Input, we built the basic scripts required to validate some of our example form elements using JavaScript. In this installment we’ll move on to the cool stuff like nested validation and making sure input from the user is the correct type and formatted properly.
Web Development Daily News
Wikipedia To Support Theora Open Source Video Codec
Wikipedia this week announced its plans to support the Theora video codec on its Wikipedia website. Theora is an open source video codec which is to be incorporated into the HTML5 specification via a video tag.
Google's 64-bit Native Client Enables Screaming Fast Web Applications
With the announcement today by Google that its Native Client now supports 64-bit processors, web applications may soon be as fast as software which runs on the operating system itself. The Native Client open source project enables code that is downloaded over the web to run fast and natively.
Flash and Applications to Appear On Google TV
Google, along with partners Sony and Intel, will soon be bringing web browsing and web applications to a TV near you. And with the Google Chrome web browser, which will be included in the package, comes Flash--and Hulu, YouTube and Netflix.
Will the iPhone and iPad Soon Have Gelocation Apps?
Recently Google and Facebook both announced support for geolocation services, and developers have began to openly speculate whether Apple will follow suit. Today Apple may be answering that question with a patent filing for iGroups, a social networking service which uses geolocation data.
The Time is Now for Mobile Web Development
WebKit, a layout engine used by many mobile devices and web browsers, allows web developers to create mobile websites with CMS functionality. With a mobile CMS available, developers can create, edit and delete web content--while on the go.
Analysts Report Mobile App Market to Explode
The mobile application market is going to explode, with mobile app sales overtaking those of CDs, according to a report issued by mobile apps merchant Getjar. According to their report, mobile apps will show a 90% growth in the next year.
Securing Web Apps Through The Software Delivery Lifecycle
If you are developing web apps, you need to build security into those applications from the beginning. This whitepaper from the Redmond Developer Network shows you how to do that during each step of the software delivery lifecycle.
When to Use a Multi-Site Architecture
If you're contemplating the creation of multiple websites for your business, you owe it to yourself to learn about the significant savings that multi-site can deliver. This whitepaper discusses the benefits of multi-site, which include cutting your development and maintenance costs drastically.
RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and the Emergence of Contextual Applications
Adobe recently released a whitepaper which discusses the future of software development and contextual applications. High user expectations have led to the creation of interactive and engaging web experiences through the use of rich internet application (RIA) development.
Are Resource Libraries an Asset to Your Website?
Many websites have resource libraries with articles covering topics relevant to their focus. Resource libraries provide more than information, however. They can also assist your site's search engine rankings, and increase the traffic to your site, which helps your site sell more products and/or services.
