Development

Software and web development is essential for the improvement of apps and features. To keep you up to date with new releases and updates, we’ll share articles so you can see what’s happening in this exciting industry, such as new plugins and tasks.

Using a Web Hosting Directory can Aid your Search for a Host

If you are creating a website for yourself or your business and you are trying to determine which web hosting provider to choose to host your site, you may wish that you […]

What you Really Need to Know about Choosing a Web Host

Even for offline businesses, having a website is a huge plus. For those starting new businesses, whether they are Internet based or brick and mortar, designing a website is a necessity. Fortunately, […]

Web Development: Is Free Web Hosting Good Enough?

If you have never set up a website, you probably have plenty of questions about how to do it. One question you might ask yourself is, “Why should I pay for web […]

Web Development: Realtime Fonts Changer

Font Friend is a bookmarklet that runs in any modern browser that enables you to change a site's font and font styles on the fly. Selecting the right font and font characteristics […]

Google Ad Planner

It has been a long time since I have last written about advertising opportunities. Mainly because of the lack of changes in the advertising setup here at Ghacks. Some things have changed […]

How To Display Valid Markup Code In Websites

There are two issues or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet. The first problem that can be encountered is […]

Display Cached RSS Feed In Your Website

You may remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way on its website and as an RSS fee (Note: Appnews has […]

Using your own Wiki for coding

The biggest time saver you can implement in your coding practices is some sort of searchable database of all the data you need when you're working on a project. I mean code […]

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Indispensable Webmaster Tools And Resources

If you run a website, be it as a hobby, semi-professional or professional you need to know some tools of the trade. Webmaster tools can help webmasters in many different area. They […]

Set up MySQL database replication

If you use databases then you know how important it is to back them up. But backing up a database and being able to use that backup depends upon the back up […]

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 […]

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WordPress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages

A WordPress blog post is made up of a handful of elements like the title and content, but also tags, categories and comments. Tag pages usually display excerpts of all posts that […]

Load your advertisements after your content

I didn't have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but […]

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WordPress template tags you should know

If you run a WordPress blog, you will eventually want to make some modifications to your theme. Perhaps you want to show your tags, not just categories, perhaps you want the date […]

Run Your Own Home Web Server

Running a home web server can be advantageous, or even the only solution depending on what you want to use it for. All those dedicated web server providers do not help much […]

Using Content Copying Websites To Your Advantage

Update: It is no longer recommended to use the method described in the article. The best approach as it stands is to sent DMCA takedown notices to operators and web hosts. Every […]

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How to style your page using CSS

Beginner article coming up, it's time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is the standard method of styling a webpage. In fact, you should […]

Webmaster Contact Software

Have you ever come across a website with no means of contacting the webmaster? This poses a problem if you want to or need to contact the webmaster. Maybe you want to […]

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Creating a simple multi-lingual website

If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in […]

Document Presentation For Websites

There is not really a standard out there for document presentation on websites. Many webmasters rely on widgets and scripts to display documents on their websites. This makes it sometimes confusing for […]

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The difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com

This might be very obvious to some, but about 70% of the clients I work with do not know the difference and spend money on something they could be getting for free! […]

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Identifying each page using body tags and CSS

If you are building a large website, chances are you have a great little CSS stylesheet linked to every document which governs all the pages. But what do you do if you […]

Passing variables using in the URL

If you've seen some WordPress blogs or online stores you've probably seen url-s in the form of http://somepage.com/product.php?id=4. These sites pass variables to scripts using the url. The script will scan the […]

Adsense ads available for parked domains

Google is introducing a lot of developments for Adsense, with font selection implemented not long ago, now comes a new, much anticipated feature, Adsense for parked domains. Many people own lots of […]

How echo works in PHP

The most basic command, and probably the first you'll learn when taking a look at PHP is "echo". The first example in many books and online tutorials is the following. Create a […]

Google Adsense Enables Font Selection

Normal Google Adsense users - those that do not have the status of a premium publisher - have always been at a severe disadvantage when customizing Adsense units. One of the major […]

PHP - what it does and what it doesn't

PHP is a Server side scripting language. Its primary competitors are ASP (Microsoft), JSP (Sun), CFM (Adobe), and Perl (often called cgi by hosting companies, although it is not the only cgi […]

Ghacks Web Development PDF Article Compilation January 09

The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09. The articles are provided in PDF format to make them readable on most operating systems and devices. […]

Web Development: PHP - what role does it fill

Before we try to work with PHP we need understand the role it fills – what problem does it address. The World Wide Web is built on a client-server model. A client […]

Web Development: HTML Playground

The first language that you need to learn if you want to start with web development is HTML. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, a set of tags and attributes that can […]

Using javascript to hide and unhide elements dynamically

My favorite aspect of javascript is that it enables you to add great features to your site like showing/hiding parts of it when a user clicks a link without reloading, get some […]

Backup MySQL Databases In Linux Regularly

The post Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks by Jack got me thinking that some users might be interested in a practical example. The following tutorial will explain how to setup a […]

Basics of looping in PHP

Loops are an integral part of PHP, and many other programming languages for that matter, the basics covered here would apply to JavaScript as well, even the code is very similar. A […]

Web Development: How does PHP work?

When someone starts learning web development they usually start with HTML and CSS, and many people get stuck there without ever experiencing the wonderful work of server side scripting like PHP or […]

Web Development: A brief history of time()

Part of the beauty of PHP to me is the number of really useful variables that are built in. Some of these might seem very odd at first, but once you start […]

Web Development: Standardizing variables to code faster

Welcome to a new exploratory post here on gHacks! I actually work as a web designer specializing in standalone PHP and MySQL based sites, and I've always wanted to write a bit […]

KompoZer, a free, open-source and half-decent WYSIWYG web editor

Dreamweaver and Frontpage are no doubt the most popular WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) HTML editors but carry a pretty large price tag, with Dreamweaver costing about £500! Naturally, neither work under Linux either! KompoZer […]

Install phpmyadmin for easy MySQL administration

I have been working with LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL, PHP) servers for a long time. But not matter how much experience I have with them one of the first things I, do […]

Is WordPress 2.7 better?

I've only been using WordPress 2.7 for a bit since I'm building sites more than I'm blogging nowadays, but I have to say I love it. It looks much, much better, navigation […]

404 Error Pages Best Of

Clicking on a web link or entering an url manually can have two results in the web browser. A website is loaded or an error message is shown. One of the most […]


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