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Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography. Browse typographic styles, download the CSS, and compare Windows (ClearType) rendering with Apple font rendering. Each style corresponds with a "style ID", which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the CSS while coding.
Very cool: http://www.typechart.com
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HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use interface for Web developers using the popular MySQL-Database. Open source and completely free to use, HeidiSQL allows you to manage and browse your databases and tables from an intuitive Windows® interface.Got Google juice?
Railo is a free, open-source alternative for ColdFusion application development. Started in 2002 as a student project, and continuously developed over the years until its first launch in late 2005, Railo obeys the CFML markup definition, is very similar to HTML and therefore very easy to learn.Visit www.getrailo.org for more info, and to download the latest release.
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quick, clear and concise WordPress recipes
Want to be able to show some content only to registered users in your Wordpress blog posts? If so, Jean-Baptiste Jung (pronounced: Young), a 27 year-old-blogger, web developer and web designer from the French-speaking part of Belgium has the shortcode recipe for you on his WpReceipes.com blog.
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Bringing it all together
Google Wave: it's a game changer, folks. Social media meets email meets wiki meets Flickr meets blog. From first view, it looks like you will be able to use Google Wave to manage many of your communication tools: Facebook, Twitter, project management, blog, email, and more. Slick, smart navigation. Watch the video. (Warning: it runs about an hour and twenty minutes.) Check out how you can "playback" the content of a "wave", allowing you to see how the "conversation" has progressed. Google Wave is projected to be released by the end of 2009.
For you Web dev geeks out there, time to start learning HTML 5 if you haven't done so already. Wave makes big use of HTML 5, as it improves interoperability by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements.
Some of the new features in HTML 5 are functions for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents. HTML 5 also contains new elements like <nav>, <header>, <footer>, and <figure>.
The HTML 5 working group includes AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and hundreds of other vendors.
See w3schools.com HTML 5 reference and tutorial materials: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5.asp
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In a previous post, we geeks discussed how to run PHP, MySQL & PERL on Windows, thanks to ApacheFriends. Seems there is a snag if you run XAMPP on a Windows machine that is also running IIS. You get a message when you try to run the XAMPP Apache server that there is a conflict with Port 80.
Solution: The conflict with port 80 is most likely due to IIS running at the same time. If you shut down the Default Web Site in IIS, that should free up Apache to run on port 80.
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Discover, create and share Web user flows
There's a new site out there in the Wild Wild West of the Web called Product Planner that can help Web developers, designers and marketers get in a successful flow. The site was "born out of the need to help people understand and create user flows for their web products," so say the folks at KISSmetrics, Product Planner's creators. You can view over 100 "flows" that work, including Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and more. Great ideas when you are designing the signup sections of your client sites. You can also design and share your own user flows via the site's interface. Go there now: http://productplanner.com
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Heredoc is a string creation method used in PHP that does not use quotations.
There are a few important and necessary steps to remember when in using heredoc.
1) <<< must appear at the beginning of the string capture, followed by an identifying word, like START or TEST. You can use any word you like.
2) At the end of your string, repeat the identifier followed by a ;.
3) The final identifier must be on a separate line and not indented.
Sample Code 1:
Sample Code 1 Output:
Let's say you want to add a line break in the output. Simply add a break tag to the heredoc code.
Sample Code 2:
Sample Code 2 Output:
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Preparing and Publishing Books for Amazon's Kindle
Publishers and independent authors everywhere are excited-and somewhat anxious-about this move toward digital publishing. eBooks are revolutionizing the publishing world, and eBook reading devices like the Kindle 2 are on the forefront of this revolution. However, the text formatting the Kindle requires can be hard to decipher and even harder to implement, requiring solid XHTML, CSS and other Web development skills. This two-day class will teach you how to prepare and publish your organization's books, newsletter or blog subscriptions, articles, and more for the popular Kindle device.
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This class allows the student to understand the language that is the basis for all web pages. Topics: HTML code structure; backgrounds; formatting text; links; creating simple tables as an organized way of presenting information and as layout for pages; online forms; meta information; embedding media files and File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
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Acrobat 9
Adobe Acrobat and its PDF (Portable Document Format) technology is the established standard in the world of electronic documents. In this class, you will learn to unleash the power of Acrobat to create and enhance PDF files that are job/target audience appropriate and interactive. Bookmarking, linking & action programming are among the techniques you will learn to bring your PDF files to the next level.
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "organic" search results. This course will teach you how to increase traffic to your site, with special emphasis on Google's "blended" universal search requirements, Web design SEO rules, and how to use video for increased SEO.
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Using Social Media for Online Marketing
Facebook, podcasts, widgets, YouTube videos, wikis, del.icio.us, Twitter, StumbleUpon, social bookmarking, blogging. Words that make a marketer's head spin. Online marketing is changing so quickly. When it comes to social media, how can a marketer know what works and what doesn't? Discover the social media trends you should consider when planning your future online marketing strategies.
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