About HTML semantics and front-end architecture

A collection of thoughts, experiences, ideas that I like, and ideas that I have been experimenting with over the last year. It covers HTML semantics, components and approaches to front-end architecture, class naming patterns, and HTTP compression.

About semantics

Semantics is the study of the relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent. In linguistics, this is primarily the study of the meaning of signs (such as words, phrases, or sounds) in language. In the context of

The PHP Send Emails tutorial explains how to use the mail function to send emails in PHP

Sending emails in PHP is extremely easy. Before we get to sending emails,

let's think about why we might want to send an email in the first place. A simple contact form obviously requires an email to be sent. After a user creates an account, we probably want to send them an email so they can confirm their email address. There are many other uses of sending emails, but I don't want you using email for the wrong purposes. Sometimes, you will see emails being awkwardly used for data storage rather than be alerts or some type of communication. Ultimately, a database is clearly a better way to do data storage and emails are great for communication.

Web Development Getting Started With Node.js and Geddy

In this three part tutorial series, we’ll be diving deep into the process of creating a to-do list management app in Node.js and Geddy from scratch. In this introductory article, we’ll review how to install Node.js on Windows and OS X, getting Geddy installed, and generating our first app. Ready?

7 Essential Web Design Tips That You Might Not Know

These days, discovering and applying some truly good web design tips is a very important thing that every webmaster should do. This is because building a truly great website is possible only if the creator of the website applies specific tips and strategies, which are able to present information in a truly unique way. Furthermore, most of the available web design tips are important especially because they can literally help webmasters to get exactly what they are searching for: traffic.

The very first thing that you should understand about the most essential web design tips is the fact that they mainly relate to the usability of a website. As you might already know, usability is a very important criterion for making your website easy to use. “Easy to use” is a desired characteristic for all websites especially because it allows users to find specific information very easily and quickly.

5 Really Useful Responsive Web Design Patterns

Responsive web design requires a very different way of thinking about layout that is both challenging and exciting. The art of layout was already complex enough for the centuries that it was defined by fixed elements, now things are becoming exponentially more complicated as layouts become increasingly adaptive.

To help reprogram your brain to consider layouts in new ways, we’re going to take a look

Recommended Web Hosting for WordPress 3.0

WordPress 3.0 was released a few days ago, and it’s more powerful than it has ever been. And if you are thinking of using WordPress 3 for your blog or even as a CMS, I recommend a self-hosted version rather than the free version hosted on WordPress.com.

So, what are the server requirements to host WordPress 3.0? According to the WordPress official website, your web hosting for WordPress should meet the following minimum requirements:

• PHP 4.3 or greater
• MySQL 4.1.2 or greater
• The mod_rewrite Apache module (This is necessary to have pretty SEO-friendly URLs)