Computers
Background Generators
Balkhis - We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. Web Designers sometimes spend a lot of time in making pattern or stripe backgrounds. Well below are some of the online generators that can save you some time while providing great results.
1. Pattern Cooler
2. Stripe Mania
3. Dotted Background Generator
4. Tartan Maker
5. Striped Backgrounds
RIM’s BlackBerry is considered the best phone for business users. Can the iPhone, a most loved personal phone, beat BlackBerry anytime soon?
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The power of the sun is phenomenal, so much so that our very existence depends upon it. Plants and trees trap the solar energy to recharge their cells…meaning create food for sustenance. Similarly this unique PhotonSynthesis Tree by Vivien Muller traps the sun’s energy to recharge your gadgets via USB. This is beautiful example of replicating nature’s theory in practical life that not only is eco-friendly but also sensible. Keeping up with the decorative theme of this hub, all the wires are plugged and concealed under the electronic bonsai tray. Fifty-four tiny photovoltaic panels juice up the device and modules are all fitted together via 3.5 jack connectors.
Always wondered how they made those panorama pictures that look like small planets? Well, here’s a simple tutorial on how to make such pictures!
A lightweight (14-18 kb) FLV player component that comes in five flavors, provides a mechanism to play back YouTube videos, and can also display preview images.
is robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. In the back end, you will use a full featured back end to manage your inventory, orders, shipping, and customers in real time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commercial bank account using the latest security technology. You can even add your own modules to the shopping cart.
is an open source PHP based online shopping cart system. OpenCart is easy to use and is SEO optimized with a very nice interface. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can write their own reviews of the products.
1. Use A Reset Stylesheet
Stupid, but true: No two browsers use the same presentation defaults. Differences in padding, margins, headings, and indentations are rampant. If you want your page layout to be more consistent across browsers, it pays to start with a CSS Reset stylesheet.
Two I recommend:
Yahoo’s CSS Reset Stylesheet
Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset Stylesheet
Specifications
- HTML 4.01 Specifications
- ISO-HTML Specification
- XHTML 1.0 Specifications
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines1.0
- Cascading Style Sheets - level 1 (CSS1)
- Cascading Style Sheets - level 2 (CSS2)
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Specification
- W3C Technical Reports and Publications
Webmasters Reference
- A List Apart
- The Web Standards Project
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- Web Developer’s Virtual Library
- The Webmaster’s Reference Library
- Web Developer
- Webmaster Base
- WebSite Tips
- Web Developer’s Journal
- Webmonkey: The Web Developers Resource
- SitePoint: Helping Business Grow Online!
- BrainJar.com: Experiments in Web Programming
- Dev Web Pro - Articles for Web Developers
- DevShed - The Open Source Web Development Site
Thanks to the author at http://reinholdweber.
- If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4.
- echo is faster than print.
- Use echo’s multiple parameters instead of string concatenation.
- Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop.
- Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays.
- Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload
