Category Archives: Tips

Ever since the dawn of the internet, there have been countless additions and developments over the decades that have amazingly improved a number of our technologies. One of the technologies spoken of regards the creation and development of website designing tools and platforms. Many such website creators/developers have opted to utilize PHP in their website design efforts, and the reason behind this is due to the open-source server-side scripting language, which allows the user to opt for a range of different features at their disposal.

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Did you know that you can add a contenteditable attribute to almost any HTML5 tag? The attribute has two possible values – true or false. If you set the attribute to true then your users would be able to edit the content inside various different elements. You can then hook event listeners to save what they have edited and so on. You can add the attribute to almost any HTML5 tag.

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There are many available text editors and IDEs out there. Some are commercial and require a payment for their license such as Sublime Text or JetBrains products such as PhpStorm and WebStorm. Instead, I want to show you how to set up a productive environment for your coding habits in Brackets. Brackets is a free, open-source text editor designed for the Web. To do this, we will install various different useful extensions developed by programmers worldwide.

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Before the introduction of Web fonts, we did not have much control over the font that our text would be served in. We had to provide multiple fonts as fallbacks in the case the system of the user does not support our desired font and even specify a font family like serif or sans-serif if none of our desired fonts were available to the user. It was best to rely on several web-safe fonts such as Georgia, Times New Roman or Arial (to see the web-safe fonts, visit http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.aspp) . HTML5 allows us to add any font to our website and if the user supports Web fonts the font would be downloaded by the user automatically. This happens with the help of the @font-face rule.

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Sketch has gained much popularity as a designing app among the web developers. The app has completely replaced the old Photoshop technique as it is much easier to use and equipped with user-centric web features. Getting familiar with Sketch would require you to know the different aspects of this MAC compatible designing application. Here is a quick guide to explain you the various aspects of Sketch.

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If you have a website, you know how to make it successful. There are two large factors (apart from content) that can make or break your site’s popularity: user-friendliness and performance. In this article, we will discuss how to make your website more accessible and friendly to netizens who are undeterred by physical disabilities and use assistive technologies to surf the net.

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Using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is one of the fastest and the easiest ways to remove performance bottlenecks for most websites. Performance bottlenecks appear primarily due to these reasons:

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