web development

Learn and implement vital tips on increasing your website s performance. Find out how to make general improvements, how to optimize images, tweak HTML source code, get better r...

PHP is simultaneously the most infuriating and joyful languages you’ve probably ever worked with. “infuriating” primarily because the function names are so inconsistant. Here’s...

Yogi Berra once said "it's deja vu all over again", and he was right. For each HTML/CSS template I build I find myself dealing with the same issues. How do I clear ev...

David Meyer recently published a .NET class library that enables duck typing (also sometimes incorrectly described as Latent Typing as Ian Griffiths explains in hi...

In my last post , I wrote about how most email validation routines are too strict when compared against what is allowed by the RFC. Initially I dismissed this phenomena as the...

Raise your hand if you know how to validate an email address. For those of you with your hand in the air, put it down quickly before someone sees you. It’s an odd site to...

I was thinking about alternative ways to block comment spam the other day and it occurred to me that there’s potentially a simpler solution than the Invisible Captcha a...

As a webmaster, you want to keep your visitors content so they ll come back again. Here you will find ten common mistakes made by webmasters that may deter people from returning.