- Visual Studio 2005 Gets Its Own Toolkit for InfoPath Forms
- Jul 29, 2005
- Visual Studio 2005 includes a toolkit for building XML-based InfoPath form templates. Learn what it's all about, and what it might help you achieve.
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- Site Mapping: Home Is Where the Hub Is
- Jul 22, 2005
- Traditional web site organization conventions such as hierarchical site maps and top-down navigation schemes might not be the best way to address a user's findability needs. Keith Robinson discusses this issue, offering some alternative ways to get users to the content they need.
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- The Amazing Em Unit and Other CSS Best Practices
- Jul 22, 2005
- This chapter is about writing style sheets with style. By showing you case studies and how they are constructed, we give you a sense of how CSS can encode the visual presentation you want to achieve. More importantly, if you follow the guidelines in this chapter, your documents will behave well on a wide range of Web devices.
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- XML at JavaOne: Ten Years After
- Jul 22, 2005
- A decade ago, at the first JavaOne, XML was a non-entity. This year, XML was everywhere. Frank Coyle looks at the evolution of XML and Java, including the latest developments and announcements.
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- A-Z Web Site Indexes Explained
- Jul 15, 2005
- A-Z indexes are far more accurate than search engines for searching the content of a web site or intranet. For the value it can bring to your site, an A-Z index may be worth the additional cost. Heather Hedden covers the details.
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- RSS Clustering: A Unique Approach for Managing Your RSS Feeds
- Jul 8, 2005
- Content syndicated via RDF site summary (RSS) feeds is a great feature of the Net, with one big drawback: WTMI (way too much information). Jose Nazario discusses a custom RSS aggregation approach that allows the user to handle large volumes of RSS data, as well as find interesting trends within the flood.
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- Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework: Transaction Services
- Jun 24, 2005
- Transaction services are usually the main reason why Enterprise Services is used. This chapter opens with an overview of transactions, examines how you can task transactions programmatically, and finally turns to how you can use Enterprise Services transactions, and how you can access the new features offered with Windows Server 2003.
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- The Latest Salvo in the Spam Wars Appears in the Blogosphere: nofollow
- Jun 24, 2005
- There's a new HTML attribute in town called "nofollow" that's supposed to prevent weblog spam. In this article you'll learn about weblog spam, what the "nofollow" tag is, and how it might or might not help the situation.
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- Planning Your Website's Design & Content
- Jun 17, 2005
- In this chapter, you’ll learn how to decide what content you want to present, and after you’ve decided that, you’ll learn how to make a site map and build navigation so that your content will be presented as clearly as possible.
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- XML Data to SQL Data: There and Back Again
- Jun 17, 2005
- Jesse Smith shows you how to use SQL Server 2000 to convert relational data to XML and vice versa, giving your applications easy XML support and compatibility.
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- The Meaning of Semantics Take II: Naming Conventions for Class and ID in CSS
- May 27, 2005
- Molly Holzschlag tells you how to write more effective ID and class names and gain insight into the changes in Web design methodology.
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- RSS 101
- May 20, 2005
- Have you ever wondered what those XML and RSS icons on a web page mean? Have you ever been asked to aggregate somebody? Do you have too many blogs to read and no way to organize them? If you've answered yes to at least one of these questions, take a look at Bob Reselman's article on the fundamentals of RSS for the answers.
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- The Most Common Questions About Eclipse: Answered!
- May 12, 2005
- Find out the answers to the most commonly asked questions regarding Eclipse in this sample chapter from Chris Laffra and John Arthorne.
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- XDoclet: Entity Bean Relationships
- Apr 8, 2005
- Entity bean relationships are some of the most difficult parts of developing an EJB application, but help is on the way. Marcus Zarra tells you how the popular XDoclet tool can help define different relationship possibilities.
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- Web Services: A Realization of SOA
- Apr 1, 2005
- This chapter provides a high-level overview and understanding of the structure and composition of a Web services platform. This platform represents the basic core of a new Web-based distributed computing platform that overcomes some of the problems of earlier distributed computing technologies.
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- XML Performance and Size
- Mar 25, 2005
- XML has a reputation for being big and unwieldy, but the reputation isn't entirely deserved. Many of the size and processing requirements for XML files are the result of inefficient development tools. This chapter provides an explanation of the issues involved in file size and execution requirements, and how to streamline those to bring XML in line with other file formats.
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- Saving Money with Legacy Data
- Mar 11, 2005
- Migrating legacy source code is a time-consuming and complicated business. The same is often true for the migration of legacy data, but there are some useful techniques that can reduce the cost. In this article, network management software specialist Stephen Morris discusses the migration (or upgrading) of legacy data into XML format. This process proves to be surprisingly straightforward and low in cost.
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- Configuring an Eclipse Java Project
- Mar 4, 2005
- Eclipse includes a wide assortment of configuration options that control project compilation or enhance productivity. This sample book chapter will keep you from getting overwhelmed by the number of choices.
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- UML Interaction Diagrams
- Mar 4, 2005
- This chapter introduces the notation used in the UML for two common types of interaction diagrams (sequence and communication interaction diagrams). This chapter is an overview
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- Writing a Story in PHP-Nuke
- Feb 18, 2005
- At its base, a website's function is to provide information to users, and the most simple way of doing this is a news story. This chapter explains how to format and build a news story on PHP-Nuke.
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