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Pixsdesign are looking for contributors to add tutorials to our collection, these tutorials will have to contain content relating to the web, but this is the only constraint any area of the web is acceptable. We will make sure that there are no offensive comments within the content (but we are sure you would expect [...]

Before we start, this is a continuation of the previous post on JQuery . This article will introduce you to some of the inherent functions available within the JQuery library. We are also going to be looking briefly at the DOM and how to traverse it while using JQuery.I would strongly advise anyone using Firefox [...]

When using any Jquery UI plugin it is always wise to first take a trip to there main documentation source JQuery Documentation, indeed the examples there should be more than enough to set you on your way. Their are however those like me, that sometimes need a little bit more of a hands on

It is my intention to design a simple first step installer for Railo on a tomcat platform. I will do this using the NSIS installer, please comment with any features you would like for this installer.

AcknowledgementsBefore I start this article, I would like to  state this is a continuation of a blog written by Sean Corfield which can be found here An Architects View Railo build blog. And I would strongly advise anyone attempting to build Railo, to read both articles to get a better understanding of the whole [...]

If you are a frequent web application coder you will no doubt have done endless hours of testing and bug fixing. What this tutorial will hopefully provide you with is a quick and easy way, to setup, and maintain a live Mantis issue tracking system, with an added bonus of utilising the issue reporting application [...]

Hi this is a quick post pointing anyone who wants a quick JQuery solution to the following siteUI JQueryHere you can touch up pre-designed templates for the most common JQuery functions and then download them. Always save the best until last, they also come with  a very handy examples page where you can basically strip [...]

This is not particularly hard or something you will want to do with every site you ever develop. That being said i recently used this same technique to list and make links of all of my web apps within a Tomcat configuration I have. First things first you will need to be running a platform [...]

In this tutorial I am going to show the basics of using CSS to create easily manipulated navigation. In a further post to be created later I will demonstrate drop down, pop out functionality using CSS. Before we try to implement the advanced drop down, pop out functionality, I need to show you the basics.The [...]

This article will guide you through the process of deploying Apache Solr 1.3 onto a Tomcat environment. To do this we will be utilising Tomcat’s context fragments. We will not be covering how to index using Solr, I would highly recommend looking at Solrj for this.My SetupI feel it is important for you to know [...]

I have now completed my HCI asessment of the Argos catalogue systema dn have made it available here. I f you wish to send me any comments then please do. Enjoy!human-computer-interaction-assignment-1

I have been using Railo in development now for around 7 months, I have found it to be very stable and reliable. The way I have been deploying Railo onto my environment was through a windows installer I created using Inno-setup this allowed me to not only install Railo but Tomcat, Probe, a JDK and [...]

Throughout recent times I have been developing using ColdFusion, which is all well and good apart from the debugging element. I’m sure if your used to ColdFusion then you are certainly used to the tag CFDump to debug what you have actually put in any given variable. But when visiting the getrailo.org site I saw [...]

This post will help you create a three column site containing a header, navigation, three columns and a footer. The design you are about to use is a basic layout for  a simple  site. I have used pixels for the dimensions. This is not my preferred method as I use em which is relative to [...]

A simple and yet troublesome for some, part of Java coding, is the ability to move recursively through directory structures. When processing directories full of files this is most definitely needed. We can accomplish this with a simple logic jump. We need to create a method to process all the files of a given directory, [...]

This relatively short post should give you an insight into image replacement. Image replacement is the technique of taking some text usually a logo and replacing it with an image.XHTML Codethis code can be done with relatively little XHTML code, a good example would be a logo for a company.<h1 class="thelogo">Company logo</h1>As you can see [...]