Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3

Posted by public@digital-web.com - November 26, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off Whether you’re a multi-million pageview behemoth or a much smaller site, you can speed up your website by offloading some of the hosting to a different domain. But who needs the hassle of setting all that up, when you can use Amazon’s infrastructure instead? Craig Noeldner and Mike Culver walk us through the process of setting up and configuring your own little piece of Amazon S3.

 


Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration

Posted by public@digital-web.com - November 12, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off There isn’t much that all-round web expert, Garrett Dimon, doesn’t know about the unique challenges of designing and developing for the web. This week he turns his attention to the ubiquitous web form, and demonstrates the do’s and dont’s of effective form design. (No international auction sites were harmed during the making of this article.)

 


Web Design and the DMCA: Giving and Getting Take Down Notices

Posted by public@digital-web.com - November 5, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off It’s a change of pace this week for Digital Web, as we turn away from web design for a relaxing look at the world of copyright law and take-down notices. Attorney Gregory Rutchik lays down the law (see what I did there?) on what to do when you give—or receive—a DMCA take-down.

 


Book Review: High Performance Web Sites

Posted by public@digital-web.com - October 29, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off Come January, when we look back over this year and take stock of the key advancements that have been made in our corner of the industry, one of the highlights will surely be an increased focus on website performance—and it’s mostly due to the work of one man. Digital Web’s Matthew Pennell takes a look at a book that is the result of years spent fine-tuning the Yahoo! sites: Steve Souders’ High Performance Web Sites.

 


Flash Player 9: Bringing HD Flash Video to the Web

Posted by public@digital-web.com - October 29, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off If requests to place videos on your clients’ websites give you visions of endlessly wrestling with huge files, software with steep learning curves, and small, fuzzy results, the changes heralded by the beta version of Flash Player 9 will give you reason to rejoice. Clients with .mov files? No problem. High definition, multiple formats, and a range of delivery platforms? Easy as pie. There are big changes ahead, and Flash video expert Tom Green gives us a glimpse of their significance and how to easily take advantage of them.

 


Excerpt: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries

Posted by public@digital-web.com - October 22, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off The abundance of JavaScript libraries available to developers can be both a blessing and a curse: it’s great to have variety, but how do you know which one to choose for which purpose? The venerable Jonathan Snook makes it look easy with an excerpt from his upcoming book, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries.

 


Building a Bulletproof Contact Form with PHP

Posted by public@digital-web.com - October 15, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off Some of us know PHP inside and out, but many of us still have yet to take the leap into learning this very useful language. Virtually all the sites we create need contact forms, and PHP is a straightforward and safe way to build them. So, for those who are eager to find reliable PHP code they can copy (and tweak just a bit), or those who can build a basic contact form but are concerned about preventing some of the spam-related dangers, Digital Web Managing Editor Matthew Pennell walks us through the process, step by step.

 


jQuery Crash Course

Posted by public@digital-web.com - October 8, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off When it comes to the thorny subject of JavaScript libraries, picking the right one for you can be a difficult decision. File size or features, animations or AJAX, global namespace pollution or… whatever the opposite of that is. Digital Web columnist Nathan Smith thinks he’s found his ideal partner in jQuery, and takes to the sky to prove it.

 


Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications

Posted by public@digital-web.com - October 1, 2007 on 3:00 am | In Digital Web Design | Comments Off It’s time to put away your copy of Photoshop and delve deep into the murky depths of DNS configuration this week, as new author Lei Zhu investigates an ingenious way to handle load balancing for web applications. It’s not just required reading if you’re about to launch the next Twitter or Facebook—what would happen if your site went down today?

 


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