Posts Tagged ‘Code’
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Opinion ColumnThe Road To Reusable HTML Components
- October 23rd, 2012
- 48 Comments
A few weeks ago, I dug up an old article that I wrote for Smashing Magazine, “When One Word Is More Meaningful Than a Thousand.” While I stand firmly behind all of the HTML development principles I listed back then, the article lacked one important thing: hands-on examples. Sure enough, the ...
Read more...Designing Better JavaScript APIs
- October 9th, 2012
- 27 Comments
At some point or another, you will find yourself writing JavaScript code that exceeds the couple of lines from a jQuery plugin. Your code will do a whole lot of things; it will (ideally) be used by many people who will approach your code differently. They have different needs, knowledge ...
Read more...Back To BasicsJavaScript Events And Responding To The User
- August 17th, 2012
- 29 Comments
Whenever people ask me about the most powerful things in JavaScript and the DOM, I quickly arrive at events. The reason is that events in browsers are incredibly useful. Furthermore, decoupling functionality from events is a powerful idea, which is why Node.js became such a hot topic. Today, let’s get back ...
Read more...10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming
- November 18th, 2008
- 193 Comments
PHP programming has climbed rapidly since its humble beginnings in 1995. Since then, PHP has become the most popular programming language for Web applications. Many popular websites are powered by PHP, and an overwhelming majority of scripts and Web projects are built with the popular language. Because of PHP’s huge popularity, ...
Read more...12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
- November 12th, 2008
- 235 Comments
Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, ...
Read more...7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code
- August 18th, 2008
- 117 Comments
Some of you may remember the days when 30KB was the recommended maximum size of a web page, a value which included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images. I find with every new project with even the slightest bit of complexity, it’s not long before that 30 KB ideal ...
Read more...Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
- May 2nd, 2008
- 80 Comments
Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years after you’ve written it you need to make use of sensible code structuring. The latter can dramatically ...
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