web development Articles

Developer Shares Story of Being Threatened by Facebook for Crawling
By Chris Crum · April 6, 2010 · 4

Pete Warden, a former software engineer at Apple, who is now working on his own start-up, posted an interesting story about how Facebook threatened to sue him for crawling the social network. I reached out to both Warden and Facebook for more details, but so far have only received response from Facebook, who calls the incident as "violation of our terms."

Mozilla Starts Big Collection of Open Web Tools
By Chris Crum · July 7, 2009

Mozilla has launched a new directory with the goal of providing a one-stop shop for open web tools and resources for developers. It is called the Open Web tools Directory.

The reason Mozilla says it decided to start this directory is simply because there isn’t one like it. "There’s no central index of these tools," the company says in a blog post.

Adobe Launches Some Flash Platform Beta Releases
By Chris Crum · June 1, 2009

Today Adobe announced the launch of some new beta releases for the Adobe Flash Platform. These are Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Flash Catalyst and the open source Flex 4 framework SDK.

Yahoo Sings Out With Music API
By WebProNews Staff · August 5, 2008 · 2

Yahoo opened a new API for developers, this time tapping their index of information about music and artists.

Google Debuts Webmaster Tools API
By Navneet Kaushal · June 21, 2008

According to Google Webmaster Central Blog, after numerous requests from Webmasters to integrate Webmaster Tools for third-parties, Google has finally released Webmaster Tools API, a tool that integrates API (Application Programming Interface) into Webmaster Tools.

Is It Web Design, Or Web Development?
By Debbie Campbell · April 7, 2008

I’m working with a prospective client who needs specialized e-commerce assistance – more than I’m capable of doing in a timely manner. So I found an experienced PHP programmer who can provide this expertise.

No More IP
By Abby Johnson · March 31, 2008

Wow. Is it really happening? Are we really going to run out of IP addresses? The answer is yes, but the outlook isn’t as bleak as it appears.

No More IP
By Abby Johnson · March 31, 2008

Wow. Is it really happening? Are we really going to run out of IP addresses? The answer is yes, but the outlook isn’t as bleak as it appears.

No More IP
By Abby Johnson · March 31, 2008

Wow. Is it really happening? Are we really going to run out of IP addresses? The answer is yes, but the outlook isn’t as bleak as it appears.

No More IP
By Abby Johnson · March 31, 2008

Wow. Is it really happening? Are we really going to run out of IP addresses? The answer is yes, but the outlook isn’t as bleak as it appears.

Search Engine Pitfalls & Remedies of Redesigning Websites
By Andrew Knutt · January 10, 2008

After a couple of beers and a bit of soul searching on the web planning front my SEO specialist friend and I noticed that many businesses that have new websites aren’t aware of the effects changing of host servers and web page names can have on their search engine ranking. What’s more shocking is that many web developers don’t advise clients about the down side of changing or redesigning web sites, or even recommend best ways of reducing loss of ranking.

SEOs and Designers Need to Work Together
By WebProNews Staff · January 9, 2008

A little while back I did a post titled: SEOs Must Work Closely with Development. The basic thesis of the post was that neither of these parties can work without close communication with each other. Ultimately, this is critical to the success of the site. One reader (named “alla”) wrote in suggesting that this is a 2 way street, and that there are other parties involved.

SES Chicago: Finding Balance In SEO
By WebProNews Staff · December 5, 2007 · 4

Crafting a site involves people with different focuses and skill sets. Allowing them to run free instead of working together is a recipe for disaster.

Fmail Isn’t As Dirty As It Sounds
By WebProNews Staff · October 3, 2007

Okay, I’ll admit it. Though 30 is supposed to be the new 20, I got old and out of touch really fast. I don’t get Emo music*; I don’t know what Heelys are; and I don’t get why you need a Facebook app to check your Gmail.

Use Flash, But Don’t Offend Google
By WebProNews Staff · July 11, 2007

The Flash Player has been installed on millions of PCs worldwide, making it an attractive way for web developers to present content to their site visitors.

Web Development On Your Own Terms
By Scott Lindsay · January 29, 2007

The early days of web development saw a relatively small handful of ‘experts’ and had them seeking to find ways to make a website do what their client wanted them to do.

PHP Development Becoming Increasingly Popular
By Andy West · January 2, 2007 · 1

PHP simply refers to Hypertext Preprocessor and is becoming quite popular due to the wide nature of functions that it can be used for.

Making Choices for Web Developer Sanity
By Mike Floyd · December 27, 2006

Nowadays, there’s too much information for a web developer to handle: Web 2.0, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net Atlas/AJAX, CSS, DWR…and the list goes on.

Choosing a Framework for Web Development
By Christine Anderssen · December 4, 2006

I recently had the opportunity to develop a small online booking system. This time around I was determined to make use of some development framework.

Web Development With SEO In Mind
By Adam McFarland · December 1, 2006

When a business owner decides to bring their business to the web, generally the last thing that they think about is search engine optimization.

Web Development Offshoring Challenges
By Brett Derricott · November 30, 2006

I had a conversation with a client in which he told me about his frustrations trying to get quality web development done overseas.