The JavaScript, CSS and other files used in a website are often cached by the browser. Sometimes we might want the browser to always fetch the file from the server instead of from the cache. To do this we can use a cachebuster code to make the browser think that every time it is fetching a new file.
With so many tools available for Web Development its hard to find the right tools for the job. In this post I will mention some of the tools that I personally use for Web Development. Also, I will give links to some websites which can be really helpful for certain tasks like regular expressions etc. I am not affiliated with any of the tools or websites. I am just giving the list and links of these tools which I use everyday find very useful.
To create multiple websites, it would be helpful to have each website setup on the local computer. With Wampserver (or just Apache) we can easily configure multiple websites. Following are the steps to create multiple websites using Apache’s configuration. This uses Apache’s “Named Virtual Hosts” configuration. I have tested these steps on Wampserver 2.1 running on Windows XP and Windows 7.
In this article I will list a few things that can be done to speed up website. I will give just brief description on each topic and give links to find more details on those topics. I have used tools like Google’s Page Speed, YSlow, Audits Tab in Chrome Developer Tools.
In this post I will give the step by step explanation of how we can add Voting Functionality to a website. At the end of this article we will have a working sample voting application. The source code for the sample voting application can be downloaded from here.
We will be using PHP, MySQL, jQuery, HTML, CSS, AJAX to implement this.
To setup this functionality we will have to first setup database, then a front-end and also a page which would actually record and retrieve the votes.
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