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Web Design Blog - April 2010

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PHP output streams - processing large amounts of data

Have you ever needed to process a large amount of data or use a function that explicitly writes to a file pointer such as fputcsv ? You can go about creating a temporary file that you then need to remove later or you can let php handle this for you. There is a special stream you can open by the name of php://temp that will allow you open/create a file descriptor that you can write and read like it were a file. The php://temp stream will remain in memory until it reaches a threshold at which poin... read more!

Apr 28, 2010 3:09pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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Wire Frames: Analog or Digital

In either print or web design, wire frames can be an important part of the design process. They act as a skeleton for the final piece. A lot of time can be saved by hashing out the basics of the site in the front end. So what is the best way to create these wire frames? Many designers will start off with pen and paper. This is great for rapid prototyping. Others go straight to the computer. This allows the designer to skip the step of bringing the ideas into the digital realm, but may be more ti... read more!

Apr 26, 2010 10:46am by Jeff Nicholson

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Internet Explorer 9: standards compliant?

In March, Microsoft unveiled their public sneak peak of Internet Explorer 9. Their goal is to create a standards compliant browser that supports HTML5, and CSS3. Sounds about right. They say that their commitment to standards means that markup will work in different browsers, without the hassle we've all been experiencing for years. IE is famous for not complying with standards, but so far the reviews seem to be positive. Can they make it happen? I don't know, but if IE9 makes the same strides I... read more!

Apr 23, 2010 4:46pm by Jill Hartsen

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Skype and browser highlighter making a mess of website code

We recently had some issues where some strange html code was making it's way into the pages of our website. It was showing up but no one knew why or from where. Some speculated that it was the source of an unintended copy paste, but some searches on google proved otherwise. Many people were having the same problem and were perplexed as to where it was coming from. The following is the junk code that was being inserted into people's websites and blogs. <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" />&l... read more!

Apr 22, 2010 10:54am by Mike Vandenberghe

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Testing websites in IE6 on vista and beyond

As a web developer one thing that really becomes frustrating is the lack of consistency in layout rendering across the different web browsers. Each browser has it's quirks but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, Internet Explorer will display it one way and the rest of the browsers will display it another. There are bugs and blatant lack of support of features considered standards throughout internet explorer. The rendering issues are even more problematic when you go back a couple versions ... read more!

Apr 21, 2010 8:09am by Mike Vandenberghe

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Alternative to sending large files over email

Have you ever needed to send a large zip file or image file over email to someone? Then you know how much of a pain it can be with various email servers blocking large attachments and download wait times. You could wait all that time for the email to finish sending to only to discover that it was blocked. There are a lot of people who do not realize there is a much easier way to send this bigger files. You just have the file uploaded to your website and instead of sending the file as an attachme... read more!

Apr 19, 2010 1:07pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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Site Speed and Redirection

As you've probably heard, Google has added page speed to its page ranking criteria. So I've spent some time this week reading up on the things you can do to make your site faster. Some of them are pretty obvious, like using efficient code, optimizing your images, and caching necessary resources. Others are not so obvious, and others are just surprising. One that took me by surprise was site redirection. While on the surface that doesn't seem all that surprising, the thing that I found interestin... read more!

Apr 16, 2010 4:36pm by Jill Hartsen

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Web Page Speed In - Paid Links Out

We've always felt that buying links seemed formidable. Now we know so as Matt Cutts of Google has come right out and said it will not help you, especially with human manual reviews. Again - new unique content, blog posts, forum posts, relationships with industry partners who have quality sites, press releases, articles, etc. are what will help with page rank. Good links that are not paid for as a way to manipulate PR are ok. Paid links is against Google's terms of service. Not all paid links a... read more!

Apr 14, 2010 4:32pm by Shad Vick

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