Site Development

by MartinB | Many sites need to be able to announce new content to their registered users. Wouldn't it be good if they did so only when the users have given them permission to do so and the content was genuinely of interest to each recipient? Here's a system for doing just that, using the Plone/Zope CMS. Read More »

by hermithaag | Today's demanding eLearning development enviornment has left many development teams befuddled while trying to satisfy several initiatives and standards to make government and industry eLearning more efficient (508 Accessibility, SCORM). Not having a formal planning process representative of these requirements can be the means to end of any web-based training application. The process for web application development is well suited for integration with the Instructional Design ADDIE-M model. Read More »

by MartinB | This is an article about selling to medium and large organisations, based on both selling to, and buying for corporate clients, and making sure that all concerned are happy about the result. Read More »

by TheBigFox | You can't believe how easy it is to turn a potentially accessible site into an inaccessible one. Developing a site for web accessibility has its own life cycle that is strictly interconnected with other disciplines such as graphic design, application development and content management. Here's a model to follow. Read More »

by optimization | Spam-bots and email harvesters are crawling your site every day - here's a simple guide to making sure your email addresses are invisible to these nasty critters. Read More »

by jacksonyee | A short overview describing PHP functions which can make using date fields in forms much easier for you. Read More »

by gvtulder | Publishing images on the web is nice, but tedious. It would be nice if we could use a system that automates the uploading, storage, converting and resizing of our images. We could feed that system our images once, and retrieve them later in many different formats. In this article, we will write some scripts that come close to this ideal system. PHP and the GD-library will provide us with an easy method of uploading, searching and publishing our images. (This article is a follow-up to part 1). Read More »

by gvtulder | Publishing images on the web is nice, but tedious. It would be nice if we could use a system that automates the uploading, storage, converting and resizing of our images. We could feed that system our images once, and retrieve them later in many different formats. In this article, we will write some scripts that come close to this ideal system. PHP and the GD-library will provide us with an easy method of uploading, searching and publishing our images. Read More »

by eli | On occasion web developers are called upon to present output in formats other than HTML, especailly where numeric data is concerned. Here is one tool to add to your arsenal when the need arises. Read More »

by eli | Those following the series have come a long way in understanding the theory and practical application of a Content Management System. In this article we go further up the workflow chain, having an editor review the article. Read More »