2.0 Web TutorialsSeptember, 2011
Display your latest Google+ update on WordPress
Google+ (pronounced “Google plus”) is the newest project from Google Inc. It is a social network somewhat similar to Facebook and Twenty. Google has finally released Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of the search engine into one giant social network. If you’re using it, you may want to know how [...]
Prefetching images and links with HTML5
Among other great features, HTML5 web introduces prefetching, the art of loading pages before the user requested them. In this article, I’m going to discuss this new technique as well as showing you some ready to use examples to drastically improve your website loading time. What is prefetching, and why it is useful rel=prefetch indicates [...]
CSS3 @font-face solucions. Typekit vs Google Web Fonts
Not exactly new to CSS3, @font-face was first proposed for CSS2 and has been implemented in Internet Explorer 5! However, their implementation relied on the proprietary Embedded Open Type (.eot) format, and no other browsers decided to use this format. With the release of Safari 3.1, however, website makers can use any licensed TrueType (.ttf) [...]
What is SSL certificate? Secure your data
The need for a secure system to send and receive data is primordial for any business. To this end, the SSL or Secure Socket Layer protocol was developed. This protocol allows any information sent to or from a browser to be encrypted, and SSL certificates were created to ensure that the company providing the transaction [...]
POP vs IMAP vs SMTP vs Forwarding emails
POP vs IMAP, the eternal fight. What is POP and what is IMAP, and what in the hell is SMTP, this one is new, not to mention email forwarding. Here is the answerer to all that: What is POP Protocol Post office protocol (also called POP) downloads email directly to your computer. When this happens, [...]
Pure CSS3 and HTML web form design
This a CSS3 based web form design. It was used only CSS and HTML to rich the result. Thanks to advanced CSS properties, such as gradients and shadows, it’s now quite easy to turn a basic web form into something beautiful. You work it further and add some more features. For example implement some font [...]
HTTP vs HTTPS, What’s the difference
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) is a secured communication protocol between web browser and web server. You can say it is secured HTTP (think of ‘S’ in HTTPS as secured) protocol. It encrypts any communication that a user sends to a web server and decrypts at server side. Similarly, it encrypts any [...]
Google documents adds Comment-only access and colaboration
What if you want somebody’s thoughts on a cloud document, but don’t want to let them have full editing access? As of today, Google Docs is rolling out the ability to let you add collaborators with comment-only access, meaning they can leave their thoughts without changing the document. When you add a collaborator to a [...]
What is Google Adsence Premium Publisher
Google has a Premium Publisher Adsense service exclusively for websites who receive more than 5 million search queries, or 20 million content page views per month. Now that may well be out of reach for most of us but you can see the Adsense Premium Publisher in action on sites likes LinkedIn, CNN, About.com, AOL [...]
Differences between VPS and Dedicated Server
Think of a Virtual Private Server as a go-between a virtual hosting/shared account and a dedicated server. ‘Virtual’ means that it is not real. Basically, it is still a shared hosting account but unlike a normal shared hosting account, each VPS has its own dedicated slice of the CPU, RAM and disk space. So basically, [...]
.htaccess password protection
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If you ever wanted a specific directory in your website to be protected with a password, htaccess is the correct solution! There are various methods to password protecting directories and files of your website, some server language based such as ASP, PHP, PERL and client side based, such as JavaScript. JavaScript is not as secure [...]
Use Google Font API to import fancy fonts
Google’s introduction of their new Font API and Font Directory is a godsend to developers and designers everywhere.Want to use something a little nicer than Arial, but without the overhead of Cufon, Sifr, or worse? To enjoy the visual richness of diverse fonts, webmasters have resorted to workarounds such as baking text into images. Natural [...]
URL vs. URI vs. URN, What’s the difference
URI A URI identifies a resource either by location, or a name, or both. More often than not, most of us use URIs that defines a location to a resource. The fact that a URI can identify a resources by both name and location has lead to a lot of the confusion in my opionion. [...]
Google Tasks Porter, an elegant way to import Google Tasks
The Data Liberation Front is a team within Google dedicated to making sure users can get their information in and out of Google products. As part of that effort, we are happy to announce a new open source product called Google Tasks Porter. Google Tasks Porter is an application that allows you to import and [...]
What is Google Task API and how to make an app
Google Tasks helps many of us to remember all those things that keep us busy. Using the Google Tasks API, developers can, for the very first time, create rich applications which integrate directly with Google Tasks. Google Tasks is built on two basic concepts: Task List A list containing tasks. Users can have more than [...]