Microsoft Details Bold Aspirations for IE9 Microsoft showed off the new HTML5-accelerated IE9 browser and released a platform preview for developers who want to get their feet wet.
CSS Basics for Web Developers: The Box Model The box model refers to the square or rectangular boxes that are generated by HTML elements on the page. This tutorial for web developers shows you how to use CSS to create the Box Model.
Featured Goodies
JavaScript Tutorial: Build Your Own Image Viewer with Scrollbar In our last article we showed you how to use JavaScript to make a space saving image scrollbar complete with a pseudo animation effect. In this tutorial we are going to extend the image scrollbar into a full image viewer with scrollbar.
Web Development: The Need to Know Basics Many articles, books and websites explain the basics of Web development, but they require a lot of time to read (and re-read) to understand fully. This article is not going be like that--it was written to provide quick answers to the basic development questions that many beginning developers need to know.
Beyond HTML
ActionScript 3 Tutorial, Using Shared Objects to Show a Visitor's Browsing Time Flash developer Paul Flashdaweb from the FlashKit Forums wrote this ActionScript 3 tutorial which will show you how a SharedObject can be used to show the time a user has been visiting a page on your site--even after they have closed the page.
Web Developer Tutorial: Build Your Own Image Scrollbar If you have been surfing the web for more than a day you’ve certainly come across an image scrollbar. In this article we’ll walk through the JavaScript functions and HTML necessary to create an image scrollbar.
HTML and Graphics Tutorials
How To Build a Website: Develop a Project Outline You've been online, looked around at a few web sites, and reached the conclusion that you want a site of your own. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a project outline, use a wireframe and begin to design your website!
How To Build a Website: HTML, CSS and HTML Editors Now that you know how to define the purpose of your site, create a project outline and create a file folder structure, it's time to move on. In this tutorial, you will learn about HTML editors, HTML tags, CSS, and how to create your first web page using the infamous "Hello World" programming example.
Primers
Making a Wizard with JavaScript In this installment we’ll create a wizard for subscribing to some websites. We’ll use JavaScript to manipulate display and styles to make it slick and easy to use without having to post anything to the server until we are finished.
Checking Your Work: Validating Input -- The Cool Stuff In the first part of this series Checking Your Work: Validating Input, we built the basic scripts required to validate some of our example form elements using JavaScript. In this installment we’ll move on to the cool stuff like nested validation and making sure input from the user is the correct type and formatted properly.
Web Development Daily News
The Time is Now for Mobile Web Development
WebKit, a layout engine used by many mobile devices and web browsers, allows web developers to create mobile websites with CMS functionality. With a mobile CMS available, developers can create, edit and delete web content--while on the go.
New Support for HTML5, CSS3, Video Tags in Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft this week at the MIX10 conference previewed its Internet Explorer 9 web browser. The preview release, which is available for download, provides support for new elements in HTML5, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), CSS3, XHTML parsing and additional video tags.
Upcoming: Google Latitude API for Web Application Developers
Google will soon be releasing the Application Programming Interface (API) for its Google Latitude service. The service enables users to see their friends' locations on a map that is displayed on a web page.
Microsoft Showcases Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4
This week Microsoft showed off its Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4 capabilities at the Mix10 conference. Windows Phone 7 utilizes Silverlight technology along with the XNA gaming platform for application development.
Analysts Report Mobile App Market to Explode
The mobile application market is going to explode, with mobile app sales overtaking those of CDs, according to a report issued by mobile apps merchant Getjar. According to their report, mobile apps will show a 90% growth in the next year.
Securing Web Apps Through The Software Delivery Lifecycle
If you are developing web apps, you need to build security into those applications from the beginning. This whitepaper from the Redmond Developer Network shows you how to do that during each step of the software delivery lifecycle.
When to Use a Multi-Site Architecture
If you're contemplating the creation of multiple websites for your business, you owe it to yourself to learn about the significant savings that multi-site can deliver. This whitepaper discusses the benefits of multi-site, which include cutting your development and maintenance costs drastically.
RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and the Emergence of Contextual Applications
Adobe recently released a whitepaper which discusses the future of software development and contextual applications. High user expectations have led to the creation of interactive and engaging web experiences through the use of rich internet application (RIA) development.
Are Resource Libraries an Asset to Your Website?
Many websites have resource libraries with articles covering topics relevant to their focus. Resource libraries provide more than information, however. They can also assist your site's search engine rankings, and increase the traffic to your site, which helps your site sell more products and/or services.
