Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has compiled a list of 34 best practices to have faster web pages. In this post I’ll show you 8 tips which helped me to get a B grade in YSlow! for web pages that I develop. Currently YSlow’s web page analysis is based on 13 identified basic rules that affect web page performance. In decreasing […]
10 code snippets for PHP developers
I’ve compiled a small list of some useful code snippets which might help you when writing your PHP scripts… Note: If you are using bluehost coupons guide, you can edit php.ini to reflect the changes below. Email address check Checks for a valid email address using the php-email-address-validationclass. Source and docs: http://code.google.com/p/php-email-address-validation/ include(‘EmailAddressValidator.php’); $validator = new EmailAddressValidator; […]
Pixidou – an Open Source AJAX Image Editor (PHP and YUI based)
Pixidou is a new open source AJAX image editor which will allow you to : adjust brightness adjust contrast cropping flipping negative resizing rotating tint images. What you need to get running PHP5.2+ installed on your webserver GD2 a web browser Demo Installation Unzip/untar the software in your web directory and that’s all 😉 Also ensure […]
AJAX image cropper with YUI and PHP
This post will show you how to build an AJAX crop image tool using the image cropper control from YUI library and PHP. If you are unsure of what PHP is, we touch upon it quickly in our Bluehost guide, click here to read more. The ImageCropper Control from the YUI library gives you an interactive interface for getting the […]
Show/hide containers by only adding CSS classes without writing javascript code (YUI-based)
This post will show you how to add the collapse/expand functionality in your HTML pages, perfect for FAQs by only adding two class names to your existing page and including the scripts below. Of course it’s all YUI-based and also a demo of the fantastic YUI selector utility. What does the script do ? OK, suppose […]
nouzil.com – a new Mauritian portal on the web (YUI-based)
I came to know the existing of a new Mauritian portal via Avinash called nouzil (which means our island in creole) and I must say at first look it reminds me of Netvibes a lot. I think the nouzil.com team picked up some bits and pieces from Netvibes.com. Anyway, looking behind the scenes I notice that the new portal uses YUIa lot, in fact it’s all YUI-based. […]