24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Implementing AJAX technology can be a hit or miss thing. Do it well and youll have users raving over the slickness it provides to the general user experience while if you mess it up, youll be at the receiving end of their wrath. Here are 24 tips to guide you with implementing AJAX technology within your web application.1. Understand What it All MeansFirst up, you need to understand what AJAX is, what it stands for and how it has revolutionized parts of the internet. Youll nee

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Start Using HTML5 WebSockets Today

One of the cool new features of HTML5 is WebSockets, which let us talk to the server without using AJAX requests. In this tutorial, well review the process of running a WebSocket server in PHP, and then building a client to send and receive messages to it over the WebSocket protocol. What are WebSockets? WebSockets [...]

Quick Tip: Improve Site Performance in 3 Easy Steps

We all know we should do it, but how many of us do? Im talking about minifying JavaScript, CSS, and optimizing images to reduce load times. Today, Ill show you three quick and easy methods that all of us should implement to improve our sites performance. Premium Members: Download this Video ( Must be logged [...]

Web Dev Q&A #2 – PHP Sessions, HTML5 Doctypes, and Form Styling

Were back with the second entry in the Nettuts+ Q&A series. Today, we discuss the difference between LESS and Sass, how to pass server-side values to your JavaScript, and how to work with PHP and cookies to select stylesheets. Here we go! 1. LESS and Sass. Hey Nettuts+. Im confused. Whats the difference between LESS [...]

Ask Nettuts #1: Callbacks, LESS, and Floats

Today marks the first entry in a new Ask Nettuts series. Im often emailed concerning various web development related questions. Though some are more specific than others, many of these, Im sure, would appeal to all of our readers. As such, each week or so, well post a new batch of question and answers from [...]

An Introduction to Cookies

You might have heard about cookies, but what exactly are they and what can we actually do with them? In this tutorial, we will focus on the basics of cookies, and learn about their functionality in various web application and site environments. We will also learn how to use them within our PHP and JavaScript [...]