Category Archives: Web design

In this blog post, I am going to show you how to create a full screen overlay. Say you want to create a full screen popup when you click at a particular web page element, or at any other event … Continue reading →

Glitch.com is a website that features an online code editor with which you can create, host and deploy Node.js applications and static websites. You write the code online and that’s it! The deployment is instantaneous! And yes, you can also … Continue reading →

Examples Absolute URL: http://yoursite.com/folder/subfolder/file.html Relative URL: /folder/subfolder/file.html Protocol relative URL: //anothersite.com/anotherfolder/anothersubfolder/anotherfile.html Tips Try to avoid absolute URLs. Try to use relative URLs for links inside your site. Try to use protocol relative URLs for links outside your site.

At first, I did not want to write this blog post, out of respect to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and to Dmitry Soshnikov, an outstanding ECMAScript theorist who has provided great insight and superb material about JavaScript. You … Continue reading →

When jQuery 2.0 ships, it will not support IE6, IE7 and IE8. For those that need this support, they may include version 1.9 using IE conditional comments as follows: By dropping support for IE6/7/8, jQuery will become leaner and more … Continue reading →

Wow, that’s a slap in the face of those incorrectly characterizing not RESTful APIs as RESTful! The year is 2008 and Roy Fielding is rightfully upset to see some authors of web applications incorrectly characterizing their applications as RESTful. He … Continue reading →

Hashbang URLs are an ingenious way to make AJAX applications crawlable, proof that at least someone (and perhaps more than one person) in Google is clever, after all. The hashbang syntax is very concise, just a number sign (a hash, … Continue reading →

One of my current responsibilities is to update a site that has Joomla as its CMS. So I am using Joomla, and I find it very cumbersome to work with. I do not like it at all. I cannot recommend Joomla to … Continue reading →