Quickly & Easily Manipulate HTML5's Canvas Element With jCanvas
The web as we know it is evolving faster than ever before. As of late, HTML5 is coming into the scene, providing the capability of developing highly interactive web apps without the need for the proprietary Flash. Instead, all a user needs is a supported, modern web browser, and they'll be able to enjoy the best of what the web has to offer.
5 Tools to Compare Typefaces and Choose the Right Font for Your Work
Fonts and typefaces are all around us. If you are a web designer you have to carefully select them. When we attempt to select a font, we do quite a lot of comparing between the different fonts available to us. Here are seven tools which might help you to pick the right font for your work.
Build Loyal Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With The Help Of PunchTab
No blog will have a meaningful life without any visitors, so getting people to come and read your web writing is essential for your blog to survive. While getting many people to visit your blog is fairly achievable, turning them into loyal visitors is a bit more tricky. Producing great content is one way to achieve that. But you need more than quality content to keep your readers coming back for more.
How To Add A Print Button To Your Web Page
You know, something like adding a print button to a webpage sounds pretty simple, right? In this article I'm going to provide four ways that you can integrate a printing button or link into your website - from the very simple HTML and Javascript approach, to the more customizable CSS approach.
How To Regularly Back Up Your Large MySQL Database with MySQLDumper
As I watch my own Wordpress blog grow in both posts and user comments, I'm starting to eye my growing database with a wary eye. What happens if the server goes down, gets hacked or worse? Shouldn't I be prepared for such a situation with a constant, ready backup of all posts and comments? I finally came across a brilliant free MySQL backup utility called MySQLDumper.
Easily Create an Informative Website Tour in Minutes With Amberjack
Wouldn't it be cool if you could go to a brand new website that you've never visited before, and just click a button to get a brief tour of the site? Well, now you can offer that service to your own website visitors. A very cool, free service called Amberjack lets you create a quick and easy tour that will highlight all of the best areas and features of your website.
Protect & Speed Up Your Website For Free with CloudFlare
CloudFlare is an intriguing start-up from the creators of Project Honey Pot that claims to protect your website from spammers, bots and other evil web monsters - as well as speed up your site somewhat by caching certain page requests. It's free, setup is relatively painless, and who can say no to free security protection?
10 Free Online Tools to Test Your Website Loading Speeds & Create Faster Webpages
Creating faster webpages is one of the commandments of great web design. The first step you can take to optimize your website is to put it through a speed test. These ten tools are few of the many which can help test loading speeds and give cues to create faster webpages.
How To Configure The Various W3 Total Cache Plugin Settings For Your Wordpress Blog
A while ago I talked about the benefits of installing the W3TC plugin on your Wordpress blog in order to speed it up with various caching, but some readers were understandably a little wary about the plugin without some sort of tutorial to help them. Luckily, the defaults will work well for 90% of us. Follow the guide, and even with some basic settings you're going to see some form of speed improvement.