Structured Query Language, or what’s more commonly known as SQL, is a special-purpose programming language that’s used to interact with databases. It works by analyzing and understanding databases consisting of fields of data within tables. SQL has roots dating back...
Flash (formerly known as Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) has long been the preferred software for creating web-based graphics, animation, and other online multimedia content. Developed by Adobe Systems, it was widely used back in the 2000s for the purpose...
Looking to learn a new programming language? If you have a passion for coding, you should consider JavaScript. Originally launched back in 1995 by Netscape, it’s a dynamic, multipurpose language that’s employed by the majority of websites. Just check out...
The popular content management system (CMS) that now powers roughly 25% of the entire Internet has switched from a PHP user interface to JavaScript interface. WordPress developers made this announcement earlier this month, saying that after 12 years it was...
Originally released December 1996, cascading style sheets (CSS) is a special type of language that’s used to control the presentation of a web page or web document. While there’s no rule – written or unwritten – stating that you must...
Not Including Alt Text for Images When uploading and using images on your website, be sure to include the alt text attribute. This is an all-too-common mistake made by web developers. HTML 4.01 made the alt text attribute a requirement,...
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, PHP is a server-side scripting language and general-purpose programming language that’s used primary in web development. According to Netcraft, it’s used on more than 244 million websites spread across 2.1 million unique IP addresses,...
How to Set up Streaming Video Content in HTML5 Now that you’ve learnt all the basic components of HTML5, It’s time to wrap up this discussion by looking at how you can set up streaming video content. You’ll also learn...
How to Design HTML Forms with CSS So far, we’ve discussed how we can create forms in HTML using the <FORM> element along with its attributes and how to use them. We’ve also looked at different form elements such as...
Here are 10 important techniques for writing clean code, regardless of what programming language you use. 1. Keep it Simple, Stupid The first and the most basic tip is to keep it as simple and readable as possible. The more...