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Last week Facebook announced its upcoming Location services, which excited many developers. This week the social networking giant announced that it will soon be adding a button to its API that will enable web developers to add a “Like” button to any piece of content on their website. The Like button is part of Facebook’s […]

Content on the web, which used to be mostly static, has become dynamic and socially integrated. Now web sites have to be interactive and engaging–content-driven Web sites get 73% more traffic than static sites. While the technology that runs the web hasn’t changed much over the last 10 years, the way that users interact with […]

As a Web developer, I rely on certain web and HTML utilities to assist me with my daily chores. The following tools are the best of the lot, and if you’re a developer, you may find them quite useful as well. HTML Color Picker – If you’re trying to find the right color for web […]

Many small business owners don’t realize that they will often take on the role of web developer during the course of business. Here are seven design concepts to help you design your website’s layout. Provide a way for your visitors to contact you Create a list of all sections and sub-sections you envision for your […]

Microsoft this week announced the availability of Silverlight for Symbian Developer Tools Beta. With this release, web developers have a wide variety of Microsoft resources available to enable them to begin working with Silverlight on the Symbian platform. Mobile developers using Nokia S60 5th Edition devices such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and […]

sohguanh: Recently, due to the need to learn AJAX coding, I discovered that JavaScript has changed a lot in the last few years–and the different kinds of syntax used to create objects in JavaScript can be mind-boggling! I come from a C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Perl and PHP background, and have recently moved on […]

Developers are always happy to use the APIs that social networks provide, however when those services go down, so do those developer’s applications. For Facebook, continued problems with the reliability of the platform have become a reason to worry. The website All Facebook reported today that the API for Facebook’s social network has been having […]

While there are many URL shortening services available, Microsoft is hoping that web developers will be more interested in using its URL Rewriter 2.0. It enables developers to provide the service for their own sites through an extension of its IIS 7.0 web server. Everyone, including the search engines, appreciates a readable URL, but many […]

Many times, web developers are responsible for creating new sites, and more often, upgrading current sites with new features and functionality using a new CMS. Follow the Illinois Humanities Council as they migrate from an existing CMS to the Drupal Open Source CMS. The Council wanted to integrate their current client’s relationship management and expand […]

Almost all mobile smartphone users in the United States use their mobile devices to view their favorite websites. As more users gain access to those websites through search engines, Search Engine Optimization for mobile sites is becoming increasingly important. Just as the experience of viewing a website through a mobile device is much different than […]

The web is going to look a whole lot different as more and more developers begin to use the features of HTML 5. This is already happening even though the HTML 5 standard still has a long time before it ever becomes a formal specification through the W3C. The HyperText Markup Language, known as HTML, […]

The man known as the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, along with researcher Nigel Shadbolt, got a grant for $45 million from the British government to build a Semantic Web. The two worked together to build data.gov.uk and will continue with that project. Berners-Lee has mentioned in the past that the pieces were in […]