Web Design & Dev

If you have ever handled the migration of a web service or a website from one server to another you know how crazy the experience can be. However, if you break the process up into clear steps and run constant checks you can make the experience a little easier on yourself. One of the problems that you might run into towards the end of the migration is the period when you have the website running well on the new location but need to wait for the domain name to be forwarded to the new server. you can either shut down your service till the domain is done forwarding, or you can setup your first server to forward all its traffic to the new server. Let’s take a look at how you can do that on a Linux machine using IPTables. [click to continue...]

If you have one single IP address for your server and want to be able to host multiple websites you have a couple of options. You can either setup each website with sub-domains or you can setup virtual hosts using Apache and serve multiple domains from the same machine and a single web server. Most hosting companies that offer shared web hosting use virtual hosts for this. Virtual hosts are also quite useful when setting up a local web development environment on your computer. I’ll show you how to setup virtual hosts using Apache on an Ubuntu Linux machine. [click to continue...]

You’ve taken a bunch of pictures with your digital camera and you want to post them on the web. Of course, you don’t want other people stealing your work so you decide to add a watermark to your images. In this tutorial I will show you how to add a watermark to an image using GIMP, and open source image editing package. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will guide you through creating your first web page. [click to continue...]

This guide provides some background info on Ajax, and then jumps right in and gets you started with examples. [click to continue...]

Yes, I previously wrote a tutorial covering how to install Ubuntu 8.04 on your Eee PC. Since then, a new version of “Ubuntu Eee” has been released, 8.04.1. One my favorite new features is that Netbook Remix is now installed by default. So rather than have to install Ubuntu Eee and then Netbook Remix, you can just install this updated version and it’s all done at the same time. [click to continue...]

The following addons and utilities will add a whole bunch of extra features to iWeb, allowing you to create even more robust web sites.

1. iTweak
2. Easy iWeb Publisher
3. iWebSites

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Though I’ve previously covered How to install WordPress in Windows Vista, that method used a BitNami stack, which comes with a few drawbacks. The method outlined in this tutorial will leave you with a perfect WordPress installation on your PC - which is great to use as a development and testing environment. [click to continue...]

This tutorial will walk you every single step of the way through installing and setting up WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL & PHP). With WAMP installed, you can run a web server (and things like WordPress, MediaWiki, and Jinzora) on your Windows PC. [click to continue...]

You won’t find any super-advanced addons for “extracting strings from xml and javascript files to simplify mozilla application localization process” or “debug running applets and Java Webstart application” in this list. These addons are intended for “the rest of us” - people who grudgingly have to edit our own web sites. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will explain out how to create a custom icon to display on the iPhone and/or iPod touch springboard for your web site.

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Using MAMP, you can quickly and easily install Apache, PHP and MySQL on your Mac. Installing each package separately is totally possible, but MAMP offers a number of advantages vs. individual installations. MAMP will not alter or interfere with an existing version of Apache already running on your Mac. If Apache/MySQL/PHP are no longer needed, delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status. Keep reading for a walk-through of the installation and initial setup. [click to continue...]

This brief will take you through the steps required to install WordPress - and all of its dependencies (Apache, PHP and MySQL) - in Windows Vista, using the fantastic open source software BitNami WordPress Stack. [click to continue...]

Publishing a web site using iWeb to a .mac or MobileMe account is dead simple. Publishing to your own server/hosting company isn’t difficult, but this tutorial will show you how to make it even easier - and much faster, especially if you have a large site. [click to continue...]