Dynamic URLs: Websites that utilize databases which can insert content into a webpage by way of a dynamic script like PHP or JavaScript are increasingly popular. This type of site is considered dynamic. A dynamic URL is a page address that results from the search of a database-driven web site or the URL of a web site that runs a script. e.g.  http://www.example.com/result.php?id=12345 Static URLs URLs, in which the contents of the web page stay the same unless the changes are hard-coded into the HTML, dynamic URLs are generated...

A day back i just had a very interesting query from one of my friend who has asked me over “What if i want to download a file but also keep track of no of downloads” but with a special case that the download link should be hidden from the user. It means that download link shouldn’t be viewable to the user. Like : <a href=”http://www.example.com/filename.doc”>Download Document</a> It should be something hidden. In order to resolve this case, I came up with the following suggestions: Instead of passing the...

Web Designers do need to face a lot of issues, amongst them the few common ones includes: 1. Clearing out your cache.This is something that you need to remember when making updates as well as reminding the client so they can view the fresh content. So normally when showing a site to the customer, the customer complaints about that they are seeing the same site. So the best way to avoid this issue is to use the version folder before final deployment. If in-case the deployment is already done...

What are Cookies ?Cookies are little files that are stored on a user’s computer by the server. They are usually used to identify a user. When you browse to a site that has stored a cookie again, your web browser also sends the cookie. They don’t have any essential part of a website but can provide some of the “little things” that can set your website apart from the rest. Cookies are small tidbits of information that you save on the client’s computer so that you can access them...

The aim really is to develop a smooth notification bar. For this we will be using a little of Jquery and CSS help. The notification bar would be very similar to the one you have seen in twitter.

My Ideology of developing a good product: 1. Simple Ideas : Iteratively work over it. (Iterative Model for Product Development) 2. Focus over on what matters : The fewer the better 3. Get Feedback : Improve and Get Feedback In-short : Make it a Simple Idea, Work on it, Develop it and share it with world and get feedback & Keep Iterating until you get the best product.

While I was learning over on how to develop Facebook fan-pages, I came across a very important presentation over on how to improve your Facebook product pages. I recommend this to all the new Facebook product developers who are engaged in daily developing the Facebook applications.

Step 1 : Login to Facebook to Create a Facebook Application First login to Facebook and goto the url http://www.facebook.com/developers/ then Click on “+ Set Up New Application” button to start creating the application as shown below. Provide the application name, click agree for facebook terms and click on “Create Application” button. Once the Application is created. Just copy the Application API Key, Application Secret and Application ID details which will be used to write the application code. Provide the Name and Description of your application in About Section....

It has always been an issue on how to handle the ID’s. How to generate them and how to keep them unique. To sort out this issue here is the function from php which can help allow do this. // generate unique string echo md5(time() . mt_rand(1,1000000)); There is actually a PHP function named uniqid() that is meant to be used for this. Since the function is dependent upon the time, the initial few characters could be similar. Because of which one may think there could be a chance of duplicating the Ids. In order to resolve...

While going through today’s update at my technology blog list, I came across a very handy tool, known as “Stylebot”.  Stylebot allows you to quickly create and save persistent custom CSS for sites. It provides an easy to use interface to change the appearance of any page. It aims to make the web more accessible and adaptable. Main features: Easy to use: No need to write CSS Simple & Quick: Changes are saved instantly Styles are saved persistently, so the next time you visit the same page, they’re already...