Arpan Dhandhania

Introduction CAPTCHA is a computer program that blocks other computer programs from tricking it. It is supposed to only let human beings through. The problem with most CAPTCHA implementations is that they are so annoying that they often drive humans away and still leave computer programs trying to find a way to break in. It […]

Introduction In today’s internet age, everything and everyone is interconnected, and mostly without actual wires. Websites are interconnected, people are linked to each other on social networking sites and are linked to pages and sites on internet by means of either being owners of the pages or having liked it. Until a few years ago, […]

Introduction In this day and age, whether you are building a website, a web application or anything that you want to make popular, you have to take into consideration how it is going to integrate with the social networking sites. The first such site that comes to everyone’s mind today is Facebook. In the last […]

There are several ways of doing something and all of them are right in their own way. However, there are some methods that are better than others. With experience, we develop certain procedures that we follow and as we reuse them on new projects, the methods and techniques improve from project to project and we […]

Introduction Border images are one of the trickier CSS3 techniques, but after you figure out how they work, you can achieve quite remarkable results. It’s the best way to box content that is wrapped in a div. If your thing is drop shadows, or bevelled edges, with CSS3 you can now achieve this with just […]

Introduction In the last 10 years, I have seen websites evolve from ugly looking text-based websites to fancy (but extremely heavy) Flash-based websites to CSS3-enabled lightweight yet attractive websites. In the last few years a new genre of websites have sprung up called Web apps. In the coming 12 months, we will see the line […]

Introduction CSS3 has introduced some very interesting features for 2D and 3D transformations. In this article, we will see some of the useful 2D features called transformation. CSS transform properties allow the developer to skew, scale, rotate and translate DOM elements using CSS. Earlier, we had to use images to achieve the same result. Personally […]

Introduction Although CSS3 has only been partially implemented in modern-day browsers, web developers have started using its features on the Internet. One of the issues that developers are faced with is that different browsers have chosen to implement a different set of features. This leaves the developers at bay as to which features they should […]

CSS for Print Layouts: An Introduction Print is out of vogue in today’s world. Newspapers, magazines and even billboard ads are turning digital these days. Purists, who believe that written journalism should be read only in print form, blame technology for attracting its audience with flashy and jazzy displays. I don’t entirely disagree with them, […]

When we talk about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we associate it with styling an HTML page in a browser. But CSS is capable of handling more that just that. Since CSS2 was introduced, we could specify stylesheets for specific media types such as screen or print. Now with ‘media queries’ in CSS3, we are able […]

HTML and CSS have come a long way from where they started. In the 90’s, before CSS was formally introduced, the focus was purely on the functionality of web pages. They looked ugly, but no one really complained since they were not aware of what promises CSS would bring. The only way to make the […]

Like everything, from baking a cake to writing a tutorial, there isn’t a single best way to build a website. You try a few methods and over time, you either find the formula that works for you or you improvise and come up with an altogether new one. Over the past 4 years, I have […]