Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

Save Time by Having a Kick Start Website Framework

Categorized in Web Development on March 3rd, 2010

If your like me and end up making loads of websites and website themes it is essential to have a starter framework in place to save you time and give you a head start when making new websites. The benefits of having a website framework are obvious and all good web developers will have one.

So I’ve decided to share mine with you. Please feel free to use this as a template for your own framework and let me know about anything you would add or remove.

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Uptime – Website Uptime Monitoring

Categorized in My Projects, Web Development on February 11th, 2010

The guys over at CodeCanyon have a competition on just now where you can win up $6000+ worth of stuff. So I thought I would have a pop and today my entry was approved. Uptime is a website uptime monitoring tool that can be used to monitor any number of sites or individual pages. If one of your sites goes down you can check it manually on the Uptime site or get alerted by email so you can check your “downed” site out.

So head on over and check out the demo. It only costs $5.

URL: http://codecanyon.net/item/uptime-website-uptime-monitoring/86651

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A Pratical Guide to Using AJAX in Web Apps

Categorized in Web Development, jQuery on February 1st, 2010

I have been doing a lot of work recently on MakeSomeTime and my final year Uni project (which is a web app) and both use a substancial amount of AJAX to power them. So what I want to do here is build on a previous article and outline a practical solution to using AJAX in your web apps using, in this case, jQuery and PHP.

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HTML Forms to AJAX Forms The Easy Way

Categorized in Tutorials, Web Development, jQuery on January 12th, 2010

For a while now I’ve wondered if there is an easy way to “AJAXify” forms without taking away from the semantics and functionality of a normal HTML form. So I came up with a simple solution powered by jQuery. The main aim here is to be able to just drop the javascript on top of the HMTL form in a progressive enhancement style so that the underlying HTML form would work even if the javascript is turned off.

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Simple Database Backup Script for Mediatemple (gs) Servers

Categorized in Programming, Tutorials, Web Development on November 17th, 2009

Simple Database Backup Script

When you run websites one thing you always need to keep in mind is not just backing up your files but also backing up your database. Recently I went through this process with my website host MediaTemple.net who are a great hosting provider. I use their (gs) shared hosting and I came across this great script for backing up your database.