Category Archives: Web Development

Many years have passed since you were the hottest and preferred of all the popular kids. Lets make something clear, you have never belong to me, you are proprietary. There will never be control of your actions, loyalty, understanding, and efforts that you put towards this relationship. Please don’t judge me, this isn’t easy… you have been important in my life, however, it is time to move on. I don’t see you as I used to, I see future along HTML and CSS. I know you are curious about me and JS. Well, J’s scripts have shown me the light… there’s life after you.

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Ever wondered what factors decides how good at Search Engine Optimization ‘SEO’ you can be, we all do at certain point while trying to figure the ins and outs of it. Here are some factors that will help you improve your SEO skills, and will get anyone ready too immerse further in one of the most important elements of online exposure, Search Engines.

The day has gone when most developers were not aware of .htaccess tricks to handle basic SEO on their own. Companies spent thousands of dollars on hiring SEO professionals. Scripts for .htaccess were really hard to find, and used only by well known sites.

After the arrival of revolutionary open source platforms like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, among others, things have changed and the basics of SEO are no longer a mystery, and many tutorials on Search Engine Optimization started to appear all over free of cost.

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Many of us believe we have what it takes to translate an excellent idea into a total success. Indeed, you may. However, this guide will help you gear up a better plan, and give you the insights of a proven step by step course of action.

DIY Start-up Series is exclusively featured at AEXT. Get a Name, will take you to a different perspective of why the importance of a name. From thinking through a business name to acquire an existing business name.

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In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.

However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.

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Recently, a blog post by Michael Gray called “Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic” caught my attention. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s the low down: The blog suggests that Google is “stealing” traffic (and thus revenue) from other companies by providing more information to its searchers upfront, instead of requiring searchers to click through and see the content themselves, among other claims.

I understand where Michael Gray is coming from, but to say that what we see from Google is unique or condemnable compared to traditional practice, common practice, or web 2.0 ethics is far from reality. Here I will challenge that frame of thought then cover a few very common examples of widely accepted and lauded businesses who practice similar techniques.

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The idea of starting a new blog can seem so easy if you don’t completely think things through. I mean all you have to do is setup a blog, write a few tutorials, and start making a good sum of money from it, right? How hard can it be? In reality, that’s just an outline of everything. In this article I will give you “Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog” along with some helpful tips that will save you time when starting a new blog or website. Continue Reading

When setting up a website it is extremely important that you also get the necessary hosting. Some sites will need more powerful solutions than others, which hence make it important that you know the difference between the various forms of hosting. If you don’t, you might end up with a very unstable website, or paying for hosting that you don’t need. In this article we will take a look at the issue of dedicated hosting vs. shared hosting.
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Hello my subscribers and who are reading this entry. I have run this blog for more than 3 months and I posted number of entries about programming, design and blogging. Today, I would like to introduce something that you would be interesting at AEXT.NET. From now on, I should chose the way to blog: community or not to be community.

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