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How to Design and Code iPhone App Website in HTML5

RankRaiser — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:15:44 +0000

Designing websites for the iPhone or any other mobile phone is very different from designing websites for a desktop. When you add to this that the new HTML5 standard, it becomes even more of a challenge to keep up. But there is at least one easy way to start learning about design and coding for the iPhone in HTML5 at Line25. The tutorial offers the basic steps for designing an interface using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.

Google Code University

RankRaiser — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:19:47 +0000

At the Google Code University (GCU) does not require registration and materials are free to use. It includes tutorials and courses on advanced topics, video lectures and exercises. Find courses like Intro to Distributed System Design, and HTML, CSS and Javascript from the Ground Up and lots of info on web security.

HTML5 Cheat Sheet

RankRaiser — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:48:46 +0000

If you’re interested in getting started with HTML5, you will probably appreciate the HTML5 cheat sheet posted by Smashing Magazine. Even though HTML5 won’t be completely supported until 2022 it looks like it’s already on it’s way to becoming popular. SmashingMagazine promised to update this cheat sheet as new changes are being published.

HTML5 Specification (Editors’ Draft)

RankRaiser — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:41:22 +0000

The ultimate resource for learning HTML5 is its specification. W3 is the authority behind the HTML5 specification. The HTML5 specification in the link is still not in its final version but this is the basis for HTML5, so dramatic changes are unlikely to happen in the final version.

Scripts Directory and Tutorials

RankRaiser — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:30:33 +0000

Browse through a directory of over 40,000 dynamic development tools, programming scripts for more than 16 programming languages as well as informational resources including books and tutorials on hotscripts.com. You’ll find things like PHP clone scripts, plugins and add-ons AJAX tutorials, free Java Scripts, Ruby on Rails scripts and ASP.NET resources.

Thousands of Photoshop Tutorials

RankRaiser — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:23:44 +0000

Photoshop is a huge program and can be overwhelming at time. But learning little tips and tricks here and there will turn you into a Photoshop pro sooner or later! You can add to your repertoire of Photoshop tricks through the thousands of tutorials offered on Tutorialized. Learn photo effects from user submitted tutorials like the mad horror clown , or a fish eye effect. The site also offers links to tutorials on brushes, buttons, animations and more. Unfortunately the design of the site is pretty annoying, because each submitted tutorial is served through a frame, so prepare to scroll a lot…

HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet

RankRaiser — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:49:40 +0000

If you want to learn HTML5, or are already using it, having a cheat sheet like the one on WoorkUp.com will be very useful. It’s designed as a grid with HTML tags and their related attributes supported by HTML 5. You can print it or download through Scribd.

HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)

HTML5 Reference

RankRaiser — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:00:51 +0000

For a comprehensive explanation and reference of HTML5, visit W3′s site. The page is very detailed and in depth, but it also has a getting started section that will help you create a sample document.

CIA’s World Fact Book: Free Statistics

RankRaiser — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:13:17 +0000

To get statistic on all kinds of facts from around the world, check out the CIA’s World Fact Book. The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. The continuously updated site also includes pictures, flags, maps and time zones.

Check for example statistics of the US: you get info on age, ethnicity, education, mobile cellular use, internet domains, transportation, comparisons to other countries, income, public debt, imports and exports, HIV/AIDS, natural resources and hazards and more.

If you’re targeting visitors from other countries, this site is a great resource to get started collecting basic world market information.

List Of Special Characters in HTML

RankRaiser — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:27:12 +0000

Use this handy list of special characters in HTML at Degraeve as a quick reference in your website projects. Find code for special characters, including mathematical expressions, foreign language characters, arrows and more.

Unicode Standard Characters

RankRaiser — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:55:30 +0000

For info on thousands of Unicode Standards characters, visit Unicode.org. In the Unicode Character charts you’ll find scripts and symbols as PDF downloads.

You may need to look in several locations to find your character: “Punctuation and symbols are applicable across a very wide range of usages and scripts (writing systems). Even the notion of a script itself is not well-defined; text in a given language may make use of characters from multiple scripts. For example, the digits 0-9 are in widespread use; the Devanagari danda is used across many Indic scripts.”

10 Tips For PHP Newbies

RankRaiser — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:18:17 +0000

This is not a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather a collection of some useful tips when you’re just starting out programming PHP based websites. The short tutorial on PHP Builder offers tips on debugging, how to deal with magic quotes and the MySQL connection class for example.

File Extensions By Filetype Category

RankRaiser — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:09:40 +0000

Sometimes you need to look up a file type by category to find out its extension and File-Extensions.org is the perfect site for that. The site will list the most popular file types within a category to save you some time when browsing through it. Some categories contain hundreds of extensions which are listed alphabetically.

List Of File Extensions And The Programs That Created Them

RankRaiser — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:01:41 +0000

The list of file extensions at FileExt.com comes in handy when you’re working with any kind of data, but especially client files and you need to find out which program created them, or can at least read them. Simply enter the file extension in the search box (file extension only; no other words), or search alphabetically. FileExt.com currently has over 51,000 registered filetype records in their database. To make searches easier, you can add a FileExt search box to Firefox, or add a button to the Google toolbar. This site is a great resource for anyone working with websites, or any kind of data.

Ajax Contact Form Tutorial

RankRaiser — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:09:45 +0000

For a tutorial about creating a simple Ajax contact form, visit QD-Creative. It clearly explains the html, CSS, PHP Script and Ajax to use and includes a demo.

Cheat Sheets on IT Topics

RankRaiser — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:55:34 +0000

Cheat sheets are a great way to get all the important information about IT topics like language or technology on just one page to quickly refresh your memory when you need to. Cheat sheets present a topic at a glance and avoid you having to spend time combing through search engine results. A great collection of cheat sheets is at CheatSheets.org. Each cheat sheet presents info in html, pdf or other formats and includes an official website URL for more info.

UNIX Tutorial

RankRaiser — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:15:03 +0000

There are sections for beginners and advanced users, reference guide, shell programming etc. at this UNIX resource at Tutorialspoint.com.

Programmers Q & A

RankRaiser — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:52:32 +0000

Use this free site to ask questions, or help someone else with theirs. StackOverflow has a simple interface and is useful when you search for specific answers and interesting to browse.

Photoshop Tutorials

RankRaiser — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:23:48 +0000

Must be one of the best Photoshop tutorials out there. Site includes lots of how-to information and examples for using Adobe Photoshop, from drawing Poker chips to Creating Typographic Wallpaper.

Best Free Web Building Tutorials

RankRaiser — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:56:21 +0000

Learn HTML, PHP, CSS, Learn TCP/IP, XML, DHTML, AJAX, SQL< ASP.NET, Flash, browser scripting or anything else web related with excellent, to-the-point and free tutorials at W3Schools.com.