Here is a very useful simple snippet that saves a lot of coding time.
Picture a feedback form with 3 fields: name, email and feedback. When handling the form results, you’d want to do something like this;
During the redesign of the ngBot blog, we figured it’d be nice dedicating a part of the sidebar to some of ngBot updates on twitter. This is a common trend with blogs and sure should be a piece of cake.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I tried looking out for ready made scripts that perform similar functions – that is; pull out a user’s updates on twitter and integrate it in the blog.
One of the challenges web designers and developers face is preventing forms from automated programs that disguise as humans and fill forms (call them bots). And needless to say, this bots can really be a nuisance – posting bad content, stealing data and doing all kind of weird stuffs. And so there was Captcha – a test to verify human response and prevent such bots.
Or should i say; What Nigerian Sites are out there? Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to find Nigerian web destinations. I was surprised to find a couple that i didn’t know about (and some sites that weren’t green). If you know other sites that weren’t mentioned, let us know in the comments & they’ll surely be featured.
Some criteria that we considered include; site visits, good design, quality content, potential and so on.
If i wasn’t a web designer, i would probably be using Google chrome as my default browser. But my browser of choice any day is Firefox. This is because of the wide range of add-ons available to extend the browser’s features.
In this post, I’ll show you a few add-ons that will make your design/development more productive.
A free icon set of 10 simple icons designed with photoshop/illustrator. They are available in 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px resolutions (Transparent PNG). You can use them for personal or commercial purposes. If you use them, please don’t forget to link back to this site ;) Enjoy!
In this piece, we will focus more on scalability – which I simply define as the ability of a server to efficiently adapt to more load. It is more complex as that sounds and to know more, you can check out scalability @ wikipedia.
ngBot is a portal of various applications specifically tailored (but not limited) to the Nigerian/African community [Powered by devedgelabs.com] has added yet another site to the portal. The fast-growing portal recently introduced ngBot answers.
