A simple feature any website can add to their downloadable content is to force a “File Save As” prompt when the user clicks the link. There are a number of ways you can implement this. Some people may do it a convoluted way through PHP or another language but the easiest thing I’ve found is [...]
I’ve been trying to find a simple, easy to use MooTools 1.2 slideshow class that can be applied to things other than images. This is my solution. I primarily wrote it to deal with images but later I modified it so work with any HTML content. I hope to add more features in the future [...]
Getting traffic to your pages should be the underlying goal of any website you create. Maybe not at first, maybe your first goal is to get your site up and running, but eventually increasing traffic and keeping visitors coming back is what drives a website and is the reason why you keep adding/editing the site. In my experience, everything you do to fix a site somehow is involved in getting more traffic and if it doesn’t then you should be asking yourself “Why am I trying this?”
So you’re a web programmer/designer and you think you know about caching. You make sure to disable caching using your Firefox web developer, or you delete your cache in Internet Explorer before reloading your page. Is that all? What about your end-user? You know, the guy/gal that is looking at your recently [...]