In one of my previous article about
Change Form Textbox Style on Focus, we discussed about Usability and HCI issues. Slight change in web pages/input forms can increase user experience.Nowadays, it has became a common practice to give user labels on fields that they are editing. For example, if you see Google's custom search textbox ...
Database Connection Pooling is a great technique used by lot of application servers to optimize the performance. Database Connection creation is a costly task thus it impacts the performance of application. Hence lot of application server creates a database connection pool which are pre initiated db connections that can be leverage to increase performance.Apache Tomcat ...
Let us create a simple Accordion Menu using jQuery. Accordion Menu are the menu with some animation effect. It has few top line menu items which when clicked toggles to open sub menu options. When another top level menu is selected, other open menu will automatically collapse and save useful screen area. We will use
jQuery effects to animate the accordion menu. jQuery provides ...
User experience has always been a factor to be consider while you design a website. Lot of fields such as Human Computer Interface (HCI) and Usability etc have been studied upon. While designing a user interface, special care should always been taken while placing the text fields and selecting fonts. While lot of web designers prefer ...
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it ...
Working with Internet Explorer and creating web pages that behaves same in IE has always been frustrating for many web developers. One way of tackling IE problem is to create
IE-Specific Stylesheet and thus it helps in avoiding breaking of design in IE.While working on one of the requirement I had to set height of selectboxes on the webpage. Normally for setting up height ...
If you are a web developer you know how painful is to write a webpage that behaves same in all the web browsers. Generally the webpage created for Firefox behaves pretty much the same in Chrome, but Internet Explorer has its own problems. Whether it be problem with
Multiple Selection in IE or the
AJAX ...
WAMP, or Windows Apache MySQL PHP has been a very server for lots of PHP developers who uses Windows environment. These are mainly the freelancers who mostly uses laptops as their local development machines. Whatever may be the reason, but when you use WAMP, it becomes difficult to manage multiple application installed in same root.For example ...
Recently we updated
viralpatel.net and moved to Wordpress 2.8.4. The process of upgrading the wordpress went smooth. The wordpress installation you are running your website on must be updated regularly to avoid any kind of
security threats in older versions of wordpress.But while you play with your stable website code, it is always advisable to take backup of your website. ...
Google has received a
design patent for its Google Search's Homepage. Google had applied for the patent five years ago and finally yesterday US Patent Office approved this patent (D599,372) for the design of a "graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal".Google also owned ...
