- Marcel's Linux Walkabout: RSS Newsfeeds, the Linux Way
- Jul 29, 2005
- Want to stay updated on your favorite sites with minimal effort? You need a Linux news aggregator program that collects newsfeeds for you. Read all about it here and then check out Firefox and Akgregator.
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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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- How to Add Images, Media, and Scripts to Your Web Site
- Jul 15, 2005
- Images, media, and scripts can really add spice to your Web site and give it a functionality otherwise missing. Find out how and when to add these elements to your Web site to provide that extra flair.
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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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- Create a "Now Playing" List on Your Website with Winamp and Java Servlets
- Jun 24, 2005
- So you've got your Winamp-powered Internet radio station up and running, and you want to let your website visitors know what song you are currently playing. With the free Now Playing Winamp plug-in and this article, it's easy to do just that.
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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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- Controlling Program Flow in Perl
- Jun 17, 2005
- In this chapter, you will learn about Perl’s many flow control constructs. Some constructs, such as
if and the logical operators, are used to control whether portions of the program run, depending on true or false values.
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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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- Publish and Subscribe Using C++ and the Observer Pattern
- May 27, 2005
- Separation of concerns is increasingly on the programmer's radar. Given the growing range of data access products and platforms, it is now essential to separate data producers from data consumers. The observer pattern provides a simple but powerful model for achieving this crucial design goal.
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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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- PHP's Flow Control
- Apr 29, 2005
- In this chapter, you will learn how to vary the flow of your PHP script by using conditional statements and loops.
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- Real World Object-Oriented Development with ASP.NET: A Custom Data Class
- Apr 22, 2005
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- Creating Multicolumn Layouts with CSS
- Apr 1, 2005
- In this lesson, you'll learn how to present a multi-column format using CSS.
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- Installing New Zope Packages
- Apr 1, 2005
- After having installed Zope 3, there is only so much you can do with it. However, there are a bunch of interesting third-party add-on packages, such as relational database adapters and a Wiki implementation. This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for installing third party programs in Zope 3.
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- Interview with Stephan Richter, Open Source Zope Luminary, Developer, and Authority
- Mar 25, 2005
- Stephen Ibaraki interviews Zope guru Stephan Richter about his passion for physics, the evolution of Zope, and why Zope is superior to other systems.
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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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- Using Layers in Dreamweaver
- Jan 7, 2005
- Layers offer a great way to design pages, especially with the inclusion of the CSS standards. Find out how in this sample chapter.
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- The Basics of Cascading Style Sheets
- Dec 30, 2004
- CSS, if used correctly, can greatly extend your ability to create attractive Web designs. Learn how you can use styles to enhance your Dreamweaver MX 2004 web page.
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