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Microsoft yanked a recent ad which encourage developers to “Forget Drupal”, the open source website content management system, and apolgozed to the community for the negative ad. A recent blog post by Microsoft’s Mark Brown, which ironically featured “Download Drupal on Windows” ads, showed that they were clearly embarrassed about another Microsoft department’s marketing campaign. […]

Let’s face it, web developers, web content management systems (CMS) are here to stay. Not to worry, there remains room for designers and coders in the world of CMS. For the sake of brevity, this article will focus on the free (i.e., open source, GPL, GNU licenses) software — Drupal, Joomla, WordPress are three of […]

In previous articles, “Must-Have: Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar” and “Firefox Web Developer Extension is Pederrifick”, I introduced readers to a couple browser add-ons for web design. In this article, I will herald another Firefox extension, Firebug. Geared more for getting at the code (HTML, CSS, DOM, Javascript), Firebug is a no-nonsense tool that does […]

Web hosting is a highly competitive field and this drives the many players to offer feature rich hosting plans at an affordable rate.It also compels the various providers to try to outshine each other. Almost all of the top companies are offering highly efficient technical support. Extra features, such as free domain names, site builder […]

I remember back in the day when cross-browser compatibility was mostly wishful thinking. Spending hours and hours trying to debug a Web page for Netscape, only to learn that the culprit was something simple like CSS padding. Back then, we didn’t have tools like the Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar or the Chris Pederick Web […]

Pucker up, Web developers. You will want to kiss Bill Gates on the lips for this one. I recently stumbled upon the Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar, which bears a release date of 5/9/2007, and we’ve been happy together ever since. It is the kind of tool that likely was birthed from a Web developer’s […]

[This is an escerpt from the book, Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained, by Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea. Published by Packt Publishing Ltd., 2007 In this chapter, you’ll learn about OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) and how it relates to JavaScript. As an ASP.NET developer, you probably have some experience working with objects, and […]

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language that permits Web designers to attach styles such as spacing, color, font, etc. to HTML documents. Cascading style sheets are similar to a template, permitting Web developers to label styles for an HTML element and then apply it to the number of Web pages required. Thus, Cascading Style […]

Using More Than One Parameter This article is excerpted from Chapter 6 of The Book of JavaScript with permission from No Starch Press Sometimes you want to change more than one thing each time you call a function. The built-in JavaScript function prompt(), for example, can change two sets of words: the words that appear […]

Writing Your Own JavaScript Functions This article is excerpted from Chapter 6 of The Book of JavaScript with permission from No Starch Press In this chapter we’re going to focus on a programming concept–writing your own functions. Knowing how to write your own functions will improve almost any JavaScript you create. In fact, you’ll see […]

Excerpted from Chapter 2, JavaScript 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide To Interactive Web Pages from No Starch Press This script is short, making it easy to see the mistake. However, in longer scripts it’s sometimes hard to figure out what’s wrong. I’ve added Y, Z, and [ in this example to help diagnose the problem. […]

Excerpted from Chapter 2, JavaScript 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide To Interactive Web Pages from No Starch Press Strings Any series of characters between quotes is called a string. (You’ll be seeing lots of strings throughout this book.) Strings are a basic type of information, like numbers–and like numbers, you can assign them to variables. […]