One of the challenges web designers and developers face is preventing forms from automated programs that disguise as humans and fill forms (call them bots). And needless to say, this bots can really be a nuisance – posting bad content, stealing data and doing all kind of weird stuffs. And so there was Captcha – a test to verify human response and prevent such bots.
If i wasn’t a web designer, i would probably be using Google chrome as my default browser. But my browser of choice any day is Firefox. This is because of the wide range of add-ons available to extend the browser’s features.
In this post, I’ll show you a few add-ons that will make your design/development more productive.
In this piece, we will focus more on scalability – which I simply define as the ability of a server to efficiently adapt to more load. It is more complex as that sounds and to know more, you can check out scalability @ wikipedia.
I recently designed a couple of business cards in Adobe Illustrator. The designs were cool, but when i went to the printers in Shomolu to print them, they demanded that they had to redesign them in CorelDraw
Generally, the believe about CSS is that no matter what order your property or value declaration comes in a selector, it is the same.
In other words, thus;
*{
margin: 0;
padding; 0;
}
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server, a type of hosting technology that gives you advanced features and server privilege as against a shared hosting. Its use in this article however refers generally to any type of hosting that allows you root access to your server – dedicated servers, VPS itself and Cloud servers as examples. I’d like to explain each in here but that is beyond the scope of this piece. Maybe some other time ;)
