If you are running a website, be it as a hobby, semi-professional or professional you need to know some tools of the trade. Webmaster tools can help the webmaster in many different areas like verifying that the website will display fine in all modern web browsers or ensuring that the search engines do not encounter [...]
Web Development: Widerbug For Firefox
Firebug is a very popular extension for the Firefox web browser that allows web developers to access loads of information about any website that they work on. Among the information are the objects that get transferred, detailed CSS and HTML information, JavaScript debugging and more. The Firebug extension divides the screen in an upper and [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 9th, 2009
- Comments: 9
How to show 5 top categories in Wordpress
Wordpress is a great piece of software, and allows more than you’d think to be done with simple coding. I bet that a lot of people out there would look for a plugin to do this, but your top five categories can very easily be shown using a Wordpress template tag, just a half a [...]
Wordpress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages
A Wordpress blog post consists of a handful of elements like the title and body but also tags, categories and comments. Tag pages usually display excerpts of all posts that use the same tag. One example: If you search for Windows 7 Download on Google you find that a tag page for my website Windows [...]
Software Programming Helper: File Substring Replacement Utility
Software programmers will eventually run into situations where they have to replace strings in their code. If it is a large project this can mean to edit code in dozens of files located in multiple directories. Chances are good that files are overlooked which would turn into additional debugging hours until the error is found. [...]
MIX09 Session Recordings
The MIX09 technology conference which concentrates on web design and development took place in Las Vegas from March 18 – 20, 2009. All of the sessions of the event have been recorded and made available online. A total of 122 sessions are freely accessible online and even available as downloads in various formats including Windows [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 16th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Web development roundup
Last week was a bit less active in web development terms, but here’s a roundup of what you can find on Scriptastique if you haven’t been taking a look recently.
We had a look at how a mysql query basically works, which will come in handy if you’re just learning about MySQL and PHP. The [...]
