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Enhanced Firefox For Web Development and Web Application Development

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:00:10 +0000

As we all know, Mozilla Firefox incorporates excellent feature can be extended with plugins. This makes the browser can be customized and tailored to the needs of different users. In this case I want to make some additions to make the fire fox is an excellent tool for web development and web application development.

1 – Firebug

Indispensable tool for any web developer who is working on the client side. This fantastic tool allows us to modify the source code of the rendered page, modifying structure, styles and behaviors in the same (obviously these changes are not permanent). In addition, we can select the various elements of the DOM and so see why CSS rules are affected.
An excellent feature that Firebug also gives us the ability to measure the load time of a web page and to analyze the load times of different elements, including HTML, style sheets, images and scripts. A utility really necessary if we optimize our site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/firebug/

2 – FirePHP

A supplement that works with Firebug (you need this installed) that allows us to make debugging of web applications built with PHP as server-side language. By simply adding a class to our schedule and making a call to a method we can use this comprehensive tool to analyze tag values and all those things that make the debugging. This addition is very useful when you do not have a treatment system as the other provided by Netbeans.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/firephp/

3 – Web Developer

Essential tool that allows us to modify and analyze our site. This tool allows validation of pages against the W3C standards, see the site in different resolutions, see the site with or without CSS or JavaScript, etc. The utility allows us to analyze behavior under different situations. Tool can not miss.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/

4 – Measure It

A simple utility that lets you measure the pixel size of any element of a website. It is a simple tool that generates a layer on the site you’re visiting and based on this we can establish a box on an item then tell us the dimensions of this. It is not essential but very comfortable.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/measureit/

5 – Google Analytics?
If we work with the popular Google Web metrics, this tool can be very useful. We simply indicated by an icon in the status bar if the page you are visiting has the Google Analytics Tracking Code installed. Ideal for a correct implementation of the statistics.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5631/

6 – Do not Follow

This small utility allows us to know if the links of a page containing or not the nofollow attribute. A good idea if we link it to sites whose content can not control or can not be responsible. It is also useful if we want to prevent the escape of pagerank.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nodofollow/

Conclusion

With these tools you can make your favorite web browser to become a true center of debugging, optimization and analysis of our site or Web application. These are the things that make Firefox the monster he is today.

Web Development – The Key Is Usability

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:11:54 +0000

One important objective of every online business is to get a good return on investment from its web development. The more you do to make your customers happy, the closer you reach to achieve this objective. Websites that render a positive user experience create a good first impression and make a positive impact of your business on whoever visits it. Having fully realized this fact, businesses have now started to demand web developers to build their websites for a high usability value.

Difference Between Software Development And Web Development

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:19:29 +0000

Every entrepreneur has to do two tasks at a time – one, to learn more efficient ways to progress fast in the business and second, to promote his business well for winning the attention of prospective customers and preventing them to turn to others. For the best business experience in terms of these two, he has to gauge what exactly he requires for the different needs that arise per se: a strong web presence, a responsive web application, a desktop application, and whatever. At such junctures, many business doers realize that website development and software application development may not be the same. Knowledge will only do good to you, better than getting a software made to work on your business infrastructure when you actually needed a web service. Let me differentiate the two for you: the software development and the web development.

Software development can be a part of web development, but web development is not always so. When you need a website or a web segment to run on it, you are looking for web development services. But, if you want a program that runs only on your PC or all the interconnected computers in your organization, you might be on your way to a desktop application or software. So, while a desktop software runs off the web, a web-based software application is intended to run in the web environment.

Most application development companies work on both the types of technologies. Here, you should know that technologies used in web-based activities often get replaced by something superior and more effective than the earlier one. Hence, you couldn’t always stick to one that had been done once. As such, the role of a professional application and web developer could come in real handy for you. With his domain expertise, he could give you all the necessary support-based services for all types of your projects.

On the other hand, many business applications are better suited to be run on individual desktops, as they are clearly technologically defined and programmed to a specific purpose and also security concerns and legacy issue come to resolution. This kind of software development is without a subscription fee over the life of the software use. It’s made once and purchased outright. Coming to the use of software in a web-based environment, there are a few common procedures like monitoring of online lead generation, customer conversion rates etc. for which a business would require web-based software programs.

Whether applications running on the web or offline and backend apps, both are handled by the professional software application development firms. They would always try to understand the business nature of the concerned firm before they work on any type of development strategy for it. You need not get worried about the quality of work produced by them. Just be clear on your needs and in telling them about the same.

Best web development blogs developers should read regularly

admin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:54:30 +0000

For Web Developers, it’s very essential to keep updating yourself with what’s happening in the Website Development industry. All of us very well know that, Blog is the best way to keep updating yourself regularly. At present, there are number of blogs available who provide web development related updates and information so it could be more difficult to find the best web development blogs for web developers / Web Development Company.

Here we’ve listed out the best web development blogs which web developers should read regularly.

A Fresh Cup
A List Apart
Ajaxian
Cats Who Code
Cool
DailyJS
EdgeRails
HTMLCenter
Inspect Element
Nettuts+
Oneextrapixel (OXP)
Position Absolute
RailsTips
Robby on Rails
Script & Style
Sitepoint
Smashing Magazine
Viget Extend
Web Developer Plus
Web Development Blog
WebAppers
Webitect
Woork Up
wtfjs
XHTML-CSS-CODE.com

LAMP Web Development: Accessible, Adaptable, And Affordable

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:48:43 +0000

LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python, Perl). It is a stack or bundle of software used to run servers or websites. This technology allows the users to execute a program on a web server and acquire static as well as dynamic web content by virtue of that.

Let’s check out its components one by one:

Linux: It refers to the operating system. The whole LAMP development revolves around this system, so it’s the most important constituent of LAMP. It is similar to UNIX.

Apache: It is a free open source web server that’s much prevalent on the web because of its easy modifiability and high configurability.

MySQL: It refers to the database server. This revolutionary open source tool is one great resource behind the creation of dynamic websites.

PHP: This is the programming language to be credited for designing dynamic web pages.

LAMP is a powerful combination of these tools, making open source web development flexible and highly capable to accomplish a variety of tasks. Another attraction of LAMP is that it’s fairly inexpensive. This all makes web developers harness the power of LAMP to create rich websites on the web.