Web Development

Planning a website is not an easy task, indeed. At the first stage, you have a pen and a paper and everything goes pretty smooth. Then you sit down before a computer, open your designing/prototyping software (Photoshop, Fireworks, Balsamiq Mockups, MS Word...) and start implementing your layout in a real internet world dimensions. And then ‘BAM’ ... you understand, that a lot of important elements aren’t above the fold and there is no free space above the fold and if you will put everything above the fold what’s about principles of ‘White space is the King” and “Make your design clear”? What to do? Of course you’re concerned, because you heard a lot about the critical FOLD space and even your client’s marketer knows this word and he is insisting that their ad block and company mission and navigation and featured content section and quick links and search box and and and bla bla bla to be placed above the fold.Read on →

Speed really matters, especially on the Web. Is your page loading fast? Woot, you added some cool fancy widgets? Do you know how slower your page is loading now? Can you imagine how much users you've lost because of that? Amazon lost 1% in sales because of loading page time increased just on 100ms, Yahoo experienced 5 - 9 % drop in full page traffic because of +400ms in page loading times, people googled 20% fewer because of Goog's 500ms page loading time increase. Speed matters! Be sure and watch this presentation for more info:Read on →

A month ago, I asked about which PHP framework to choose. Thank you very much for your suggestions, guys. After surfing and reading and testing and thinking and bla bla bla... I decided to stop with Symfony Framework (http://www.symfony-project.org). Curious why?Read on →

I’m a big fan of Drupal and, actually, I don’t like excessive coding. Drupal is great platform for building websites…almost any type of websites can be built with Drupal…except services. For example, if I want to build a serious newsletter service like the Aweber or GetResponse, Drupal won’t work, because it is CMS at first. Moreover, I’m afraid of Drupal 7, I looked performance-related issues section and understood that D7 will be even more slower than D6…this news isn’t good for me, because often, I’m not happy with D6 performance at all.Read on →

I originally posted this question on Drupal.org forum (http://drupal.org/node/592560), but decided to duplicate it here, please feel free to post your thoughts here or on drupal's forum. Actually, this is a very interesting question to me.

Recently, I made a research and found out, that many famous Drupal oriented development firms (shops) are from US and Canada...and to my surprise not from China or India, where the workforce is cheap. Why is that?Read on →

A good IDE tool which I frequently use for my web developments Aptana was updated to version 1.5!

A new version is now based on the latest Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) platform.The main improvements developers promised to the public are significant performance boost and less memory consumption (man, at last!).Read on →

Without any doubts, Jquery is one of the best and most popular javascript frameworks available. It changed the way how the Web looks and how it works.Read on →

Found a nice solution to speed up html/css code writing. It is a most boring part of the codin when you're typing ing those nested divs, tabs, tags, etc. Well, some russian guys made a cool addon for Aptana (also available for Coda, NetBeans, TextMate) which speeds up al these boring things. Look at the demo video and get download links below:

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I didn't write for a long time. But today I want to share my exitement with upcoming Google service called Google Wave. Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. Here is a big demo of this, watch and enjoy:

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I'm a true Drupal addict. Most people think it is hard, but it is not. It is logical, simple and very flexible. As I'm trying other solutions, I become more and more assured in Drupal advantages.

One of such solutions or competitors is Wordpress. Perfect bloging platform and only. Only bloging...if you want to do something advanced with Wordpress forget it or prepare for a bunch of problems. Recently I decided to build splog network with Wordpress.Read on →