How Many Rows Of Data To Use With Spry
Bob sent in an interesting email to me: Ray, we're about to use spry on one of our sites but i was wondering what you would recommend to be the max records to return in the XML? We may have 2,000 records returned at a time (in a directory format)?

Date: 2006-12-27

SEO-Friendly Ecommerce
One of the major drawbacks when taking the dynamic approach to web development is the resulting product not being optimized for the search engines. A number of issues contribute to this characteristic and most are them are correctable, but doing so is considered an advanced level of web design.

Date: 2006-12-13

Fun With Dynamic Sites
The idea that your site has to be static, or look static, to do well in search engines is getting to be a thing of the past. This session covered the myths and current issues that people are facing with dynamic websites. All of which can be fixed.

Date: 2006-12-06

Merchant Processing Solutions in Time for the Holidays
Your first $200 in Credit Card Processing is FREE*, for a typical merchant this means on average 3 months of credit card processing (Normal fees will apply after the $200 of free processing is used).

Date: 2006-12-05

Is My Perl, CGI, MYSQL Site Obsolete?
That is the question that one person asks in the web programming discussion forum at WebProWorld.

Date: 2006-11-22

What Do You Want Your Website To Do?
Ektron CMS400.net lets you do more than just what you need to do on the web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the web... all with one application.

Date: 2006-11-20

Enterprise 2.0 In A Box
A small dream of mine came true. We've been preaching an ecosystem of tools for some time now. We've helped customers stitch them together in interesting ways.

Date: 2006-11-08

Using External JavaScript Source Files
By now most web designers and developers know that JavaScript causes a real headache for search engine spiders. There are however a number of scripts which, whilst not absolutely essential to the functioning of a site, are nevertheless very handy.

Date: 2006-11-01

Purchase a Managed Hosting Solution, Get 2 Products for Free
Purchase a managed hosting solution and you get to choose the two products that work best for your hosting needs — not the two that work best for Rackspace. And it's just the beginning of how we will go to extraordinary lengths to make you a happy customer and a successful one, too. We call this "whatever it takes" attitude Fanatical Support™, and it will change the way you work from day one.

Date: 2006-10-19

Creating An RSS 2.0 Feed
If you can learn HTML, you can easily learn how to build your own RSS 2.0 feeds. I'll take you through the steps to creating an RSS feed from scratch.

Date: 2006-10-18

Download Just Released: CMS400.NET Version 6.1
Ektron CMS400.NET let's you do more than just what you need to do on the Web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the Web...all with one application.

Date: 2006-10-12

IE7: Get Your Compatibility Profile!
Scott Graff, Program Manger for IE7 Compatibility, reports that the new version of Microsoft Internet Explorer will be released later this month, and will be delivered to Windows users via automatic updates in the coming weeks.

Date: 2006-10-11

eBay Developer Program Chief Departs
Greg Isaacs had been instrumental in prodding the online marketplace to open tool to developers that permit third parties to build applications using eBay's data through application programming interfaces (API).

Date: 2006-10-04

The ROR Advantage: No Spider Discrimination!
Search engine optimization is a very complex science, but at its heart is the simple rule: to format your website in such a way that spiders can immediately recognize and index its content.

Date: 2006-09-21

Webtop, RIA, And 'Webified'
There were some interesting discussions late last week regarding Rich Internet Applications (RIA), a new term called "webified", and the webtop.

Date: 2006-09-13

AJAX Use Up, Still Outpaced By PHP
A recent survey conducted by Evans Data Corp. shows that the adoption of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is on the rise, especially in emerging markets.

Date: 2006-08-30

What Do You Want Your Website To Do? Do It With Ektron CMS400.NET
Ektron CMS400.NET v6 let's you do more than just what you need to do on the Web, it also lets you do everything you want to do on the Web...all with one application.

Date: 2006-08-30

Go Jam With Google Code
The fourth annual coding competition presented by Google offers the top 100 programmers in the contest cash prizes.

Date: 2006-08-16

digishop 4.0 Ecommerce Software Release
Add e-commerce functionality to your existing web site and manage the entire store with your web browser.

Date: 2006-08-09

WYSIWYG And Wikis
Christoph Sauer questions if WYSIWYG is a good thing, based on his experience with a wiki within his technical university in Germany and creating WikiWizard. Leslie Lamport (helped create LaTeX) in 1987 wrote a paper called Document Production: Visual or Logical (pdf).

Date: 2006-08-07

Yahoo Search SDK Updated
Newer libraries and new languages for Yahoo Search's software development kit have brought support for Ruby, Lua, and Ajax widgets to developers.

Date: 2006-07-26

Download Just Released: CMS400.NET Version 6
Want more than just an easier way to manage content and documents on the Web? Do you want to track what pages were viewed the most? What content was rated highest? Want to post a blog? Build an online community with message boards and forums?

Date: 2006-07-17

Webmaster Questions For CMS Developers
Before Oneupweb, I worked at an online children's store. One of my many duties there (my desk was always covered in toys) was to manage our store's migration to an entirely new e-commerce platform.

Date: 2006-07-10

Why Web Standards Could Be Making You Ill
As the Internet moves from its haphazard, low-tech beginnings towards what some have called 'the semantic web', people are becoming ever more concerned with making their web pages and blogs (and the HTML and CSS code behind them) as high quality as possible, all in the name of Accessibility and Web Standards.

Date: 2006-06-21

Shopping Cart for Web Developers
95% of all e-commerce shopping carts are "clunky" and hard to administer. The more features a shopping cart contains, the more links it requires and the harder and more confusing it can be to use. Learn how to spot a shopping cart with pages that are easy to figure out and easy to use.

Date: 2006-06-14

Ajax Causing Impression Problems
In a recent announcement, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz has pledged to make Java open-source code.

Date: 2006-06-07

Sun CEO Promises To Make Java Open-Source
In a recent announcement, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz has pledged to make Java open-source code.

Date: 2006-05-17

IE7: Good For Users, Good For Developers
Like quite a few people, I've installed Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 that Microsoft released as part of broadening out their beta testing programme of the new browser version to as wide an audience as possible. I like it and, compared to the earlier beta, it seems pretty stable.

Date: 2006-05-03

MediaBot - New Google Agent Confirmed
Website owners and administrators might have noticed a new search spider agent appearing in their site logs. It appears that Google has another bot operating out there.

Date: 2006-04-20

Featured Product Announcement: Ektron CMS400.NET v6
Want more than just an easier way to manage content and documents on the Web? Do you want to track what pages were viewed the most? What content was rated highest? Want to post a blog? Build an online community with message boards and forums?

Date: 2006-04-19

Java – Fat Is In, Ajax Is Too Thin
All the heavily hyped virtues of Ajax and its asynchronous behind-the-page web browser handiwork have led Java developers to question why a fat client isn't preferable in the first place.

Date: 2006-04-14

CSS Link Specificity
Love Hate is how I taught myself to remember the order. The acronym for the order (LVHA) just wasn't terribly easy to remember on its own.

Date: 2006-03-29

Is AJAX The New Web?
The underlying technologies behind most Web applications (such as HTML) are pretty simple and straightforward to use.

Date: 2006-03-15

Logitech’s New CS2 Tool For Developers
Two major tools in the toolbox for many developers remain the Mac and Adobe Software. Logitech recently announced new tools for use with Macs and Adobe's Creative Suite 2 (CS2), which consists of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

Date: 2006-03-01

Build Flash Applications for Windows & Mac OSX
Zinc™ v2.5 is a highly flexible application, limited only by your imagination! Build Powerful CD-ROM & Desktop Applications, Compelling Screensavers and More - Customize every aspect of your Application! Zinc™ v2.5 is used by thousands of Designers & Developers and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies around the world!

Date: 2006-02-22

Opera Integrates BitTorrent In Upcoming Browser
Oslo-based Opera Software today announced that it has teamed with BitTorrent Inc. to include the BitTorrent(TM) protocol in the upcoming version of the Opera Web browser.

Date: 2006-02-08

Single Application That Makes Websites More Interactive
Got a Web site? Want to make it more interactive? More robust? More efficient? Got ideas about what you want to do, but don't know how to get it done?

Date: 2006-01-19

Perl: Cryptic Power
Perl is, let's face it, a programming language for people who know programming. It's extremely different from PHP: you can't really just pick it up and use it. Perl bears a lot of resemblance to C and Unix shell scripts, if that means anything to you - if it doesn't, you should probably steer clear of Perl. If you're a reasonably experienced programmer who knows C and you're looking to move onto the web, though, Perl will be a great fit for you...

Date: 2006-01-18