Rich-Text Editors for 2010 and Beyond
Rich-Text Editors, inline content editors, WYSIWYG editors – or whatever you want to call them – are web applications that enable users to enter, edit and manipulate alphanumeric characters while visiting your website. Wherever you have a <textarea> form input on your site, chances are good that its usability could be improved with a Rich-Text Editor.
For example, your comment form is a great place to provide users with the ability to customize their responses with a few clicks of the mouse. RTEs help your visitors format and edit their web-based content by transforming an ordinary input field into a fully functional HTML editor.
7 Tools You Should Be Using For Better Web Designs
We’ve all come across websites with amazing designs only to be frustrated because it was hard to find things or confusing to use. As a web designer or developer, how do you know if this is happening to your website?
Statistical applications such as Google Analytics can help, but that’s not enough. To gain greater insight, you should take the time to engage, interact and understand your audience.
Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem? (Part 2)
Basic Ways To Increase Web Security
Now that you know a bit about what can be done to your website by the bad guys, here are some ways to fight them off.
Keep Code Up to Date
There is no better protection than keeping your code up to date. Outdated versions of WordPress, old installs of PHP and MySQL, even old browsers, all of these are security issues because most updates to software these days are security patches. It is a rat race between those who want the Web to work and those who want to abuse it to make a quick buck or to steal your identity. So please help the good guys by upgrading whenever a new version is out.
Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem? (Part 1)
Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.
The problem with Web security is that, as important as it is, it is also very complex. I am quite sure that some of you reading this are already part of an network of attack computers and that your servers are sending out spam messages without you even knowing it. Your emails and passwords have been harvested and resold to people who think you need either a new watch, a male enhancement product or a cheap mortgage. Fact is, you are part of the problem and don’t know what you did to cause it.
How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery (Part 2)
Step 6 – Adding a Product to the Cart
We want to add products to the cart using jQuery, but we also want it to work for users who don’t have JavaScript enabled. Let’s dive into our JavaScript file, assets/js/core.js, and start with the jQuery opening tags:
- $(document).ready(function() {
- /*place jQuery actions here*/
- });
$(document).ready(function() {
/*place jQuery actions here*/
});
Because CodeIgniter uses a mod_rewrite kind of url “index.php/cart”, we are going to define a var with the url to our application:
How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery (Part 1)
CodeIgniter is an open source PHP web application framework with a lot of features. Recently, thanks to the latest update, a new feature was added to this framework, called the Cart Class. In this tutorial, we’re going to take advantage of this new class, and write a shopping cart system, with a touch of jQuery added in.
How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit
QUnit, developed by the jQuery team, is a great framework for unit testing your JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce what QUnit specifically is, and why you should care about rigorously testing your code.
Tutorial Details
- Language: JavaScript
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes
- Required File: QUnit JS
A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs
If there’s anything web designers learned from the past year, it’s that mobile web usage will continue to soar.
Thanks to smartphones and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook that promote on-the-go interaction with web applications, the amount of people using mobile devices to access the web has grown exponentially.
20 jQuery Utilities For A Smashing Website
Webdesigners create and design a whole lot of widgets and utilities to make a website more appealing. Here, I have collected the best jQuery Utilities that will help every web designer and web master to build a beautiful yet fully loaded smashing website.
1. Real Person jQuery Plugin
This plugin is designed to help overcome automated form submission by requiring a real person to identify text made up of dots. The entered value is compared on the server with the generated value to determine whether processing should continue.
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Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code
How much time do you spend writing HTML code: all of those tags, attributes, quotes, braces, etc. You have it easier if your editor of choice has code-completion capabilities, but you still do a lot of typing.
We had the same problem in JavaScript world when we wanted to access a specific element on a Web page. We had to write a lot of code, which became really hard to support and reuse. And then JavaScript frameworks came along, which introduced CSS selector engines. Now, you can use simple CSS expressions to access DOM elements, which is pretty cool.
But what if you could use CSS selectors not just to style and access elements, but to generate code? For example, what if you could write this…
