Google have produced a whole range of amazing tools for various uses in business and for personal use. In fact, their tools excel in diversity due to the number of applicable uses covered. For programmers whom struggle with cutting development time when coding in AJAX, Google offers a free tool that solves this problem.
The tool is a called Google Web Toolkit. It’s built on an open source framework which is the leading development choice nowadays for programmer tools. Open source invites coders to wield their digital magic and write extras to enhance tools.
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A little while back we covered some professional Wordpress looking themes. Here are five Wordpress themes that are based on newspapers or magazine layouts.
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Using buttons that allow users to click through to another web page has been the norm since day one of the web. Designers are always looking for better ways to show the various types of menu navigation on web pages and CSS provides unlimited potential.

The navigation of your site is the most important part of the content architecture stage. Writing accessible pages with a menu system that is easy to use is crucial to retaining visitors. So, what is the best method for the menu links – graphics or just text buttons? I can tell you now that plain text is always the best way and using CSS to craft the buttons means you are not stuck with a dull and boring layout.
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It was no surprise that the new version was greeted with much aplomb and also a heavy degree of skepticism. I am referring to Microsoft’s latest IE upgrade and new browser – Internet Explorer 8. The update has been downloaded by web users whom prefer to use IE. Firefox users are just plain anti-Bill Gates, being official Mozilla users and need much more convincing. Safari is a very non-competitive choice against these browsers; Opera and Chrome seem to be following IE closely.

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When you ask someone about Web 2.0, you may get the response that it is just an idea. Some people will tell you that it is the use of AJAX. Well here are eight useful AJAX scripts, which enhance your site with a Web 2.0 feel.

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Wordpress has evolved from it’s roots as just a blogging software to more of a CMS role. Along with this transition it has started to show up as one of the more popular CMS used to run professional sites. One of the reasons why is because how robust the software is and how easy it can be to design a professional looking site with very little time. Here are eight professional Wordpress themes, and the great thing is that they are all free.

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Internet Explorer 8 was released as a beta around February of 2008. About the time of the beta release Microsoft announced that the IE 8 had passed the Acid2 test. Everyone was shocked that Microsoft actually was able to get a version of IE to even past the test, since everyone’s view is that Microsoft has turned their back on industry standards. On March 19th, Microsoft finally released the final version of IE 8, which many people may have missed since there was not a big celebration like when FireFox 3 was released.
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One of the issues that most people have with Wordpress, or any blogging or content manager, is the lack of SEO support. If you don’t know what SEO is, then you may be a little lost. SEO stands for search engine optimization. To put it in laymen terms, it is basically ways to get your website higher results on search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. The idea is that the higher your web page is on a website, the more traffic you get, and the more traffic the more revenue. Here are two plugins that are essential for making for sure your Wordpress powered site is SEO ready.
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With a sql query, you want to make for sure the user can’t add an extra single or double quote and compromise the site’s database. Since the beginnings of PHP developers have tried to create simple and effective secure built in functions to tackle this task and not drive the developer insane. This has created a lot of commands, which some are being phased out in newer versions of PHP, and can cause a lot of confusion to PHP programmers, especially those who are just learning PHP. We will look into some of the functions and try to explain when to use each.

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