Web 2.0 Resources

Technologies for modern programming, building Web applications, RIA, and applications running both on the Web and on the desktop. Descriptions, tutorials, programs. Programming the Web gives an overview of the problems and the solutions.

Ajax

Ajax and PHP, the combination of the technologies of the Web for creating a modern site.
A comparison of the XML-based interface languages and platforms for Web applications: Ajax, XUL, XAML or Laszlo, and their evolutions. If you wonder which format to choose, the JSON or XML article will help you.

Web 2.0 design and RIA

The Web design is now 2.0. The article Webmaster of the Web 2.0 describes what is the Web 2.0 and how to be a programmer of the modern Web. The Adsense program is an easy way for making money with a website. How to optimize it?
HTML 5, the new format supports Web applications as documents and it is not only a replacement for HTML 4 but also a concurrent for Silverlight. Completed by the Google Gears plug-in, that is already available, Web applications can run also offline. All these techniques are now used to build an RIA.
An overview of Content Management Systems, and a list of PHP content management system.

XAML

The XAML section is a reference for RIA and building interface of Web applications and a Silverlight tutorial is available on this site.
This markup language is becoming to be available on any platform, including Windows, Mac, Linux.
An article, "Empire and anarchy" describes the background of Web programming.

RSS

The RSS section provides articles and scripts. How to promote a website with RSS? Which format to choose, Atom, RSS 2.0 or 1.0?

The Ara Editor is a PHP script that allows to build and update the RSS feed of your website.

Atom and RSS readers are simple PHP functions to display a feed from any source, on your website.

Scriptol and PHP

Scriptol has been designed to be simple, safe and universal. It is a modern, object oriented, procedural language with innovative features, for example it can use XML as a data structure. Scriptol is compiled to PHP or binary. Look at the description and the Getting started with Scriptol article.

Document Object Model, accessing content of XML documents and HTML page with a standard interface. This is a Scriptol extension but it is part of the core PHP 5 language. See also how to build a GUI for Windows with Winbinder and PHP.

SEO

Articles, tools, and services for webmaster. Free diagnosis of your site. Making money with a website, improving PageRank and increasing traffic, etc.
They are completed by tools for webmaster: Simple Map generates an XML or HTML sitemap, and Spider SEO generates meta tags.

Scripts and tools

Scripts for websites and tools for webmasters. The PHP FTP Synchronizer program updates a website from a local image. Site update copies the menu or the heading of the home page to all pages of the site. It can replace a CMS in some ways.

FTP Scripts for exchanging data with a server.

XML Scripts for converting or checking files and for configuring programs.

Tools for programmers and webmaster. List of tools and online services.

News for webmasters and new resources

Silverlight for Linux available

The creator of Mono announces the availability of Silverlight 1.0 for Linux. It works with Firefox 2. A Silverlight tutorial is available here.
May 15, 2008.

Google Friend Connect

The new Web service from Google: transform each site into social network, whose features are offered in the form of code to insert in your pages: user registration, gallery of members, comments on articles... As any other tool developed with the OpenSocial API, see examples de scripts.
May 13, 2008.

Writting for for Web, a method

An expert reveals his secret to write successfully articles for the Web.
May 11, 2008

A script to make thumbnails

Thumbnail Maker is a PHP tool for resizing images or generating thumbnails. It is based on the How to create thumbnail images for your Web pages, a tutorial to generate thumbnails and to build a gallery of images.
May 6, 2008.

Expression Studio 2 is available

The new version of Expression Studio has a better integration to Web standards. It is possible to deal with pages containing PHP code even if PHP is obviously not taken into account by the compiler. A trial version can be downloaded. May 2008.

Letter from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo: Clearly a deal is not to be.

In a letter sent by Steve Ballmer to the CEO of Yahoo, Microsoft said it abandons Yahoo bid. The offer was $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo, then raised to $47.5 billion but Yahoo demanded at least $53 billion. The letter. May 4, 2008.

Design: The size of pages has tripled since 2008

According to studies published by the Websiteoptimization site, since 2003 the average size of Web pages has tripled, from 94KB to 312KB. Similarly the number of objects loaded simultaneously, images mainly, rose from 26 to 50. Most pages have twice the height of the screen. There are still 60% of pages that use tables for layout rather than CSS but 82% nevertheless include a stylesheet. 85% of pages are using JavaScript, which comes undoubtedly from Adsense and other advertisers and statistical services. 92% of pages incorporate images: gif, jpeg and png in that order. April 28, 2008.

Moonlight will be compatible with any Linux

It is the recent announcement in a conference by Miguel de Icaza. This version of Silverlight for Linux 2 is produced by Novell with the help of Microsoft, which wants Silverlight can run on all computers. XAML and Silverlight constitute a more and more serious competitor to Flash and Air from Adobe. April 24, 2008.

Design: Google Website Optimizer standalone

Website optimizer is an online service for webmasters previously reserved to Adwords members, which now becomes accessible to all. You can access it with a Google or Gmail password or register. You will find tutorials and demos. This service allows you to test different variations for your pages and gather the opinions of visitors.
Reference. April, 17, 2008.

SEO: New Alexa Rankings

Alexa displays on its website the rank of websites according to their traffic and has changed its algorithm. Prior the evaluation was based entirely on visits made by people who have installed Sparky, the Alexa toolbar on their browser. This is no longer the case and the evaluation is based now on the visits made by all Net surfers. It was possible before to see a spike in traffic with only a single page aimed at webmasters who all have installed the Alexa toolbar. That is no longer the case. It seems that sites in English are favored with the new system.
Reference. April 16, 2008.

SEO misunderstanding and the truth

It is necessary to clarify some points on how results are determined by search engines. This is achieved by the article SEO Foundation: Relevance or position that is entirely built on the best references.
May 2008.

A plugin to add news to a portal website

Thanks to the Sidepress plugin You can add news to the home page of your website by installing Wordpress and this plugin.
April 2008.

Should us move to Google App Engine?

Google provides a free hosting service to Web applications, but webmasters have to change their habits.
April 2008.

Google answers to webmasters

Webmasters and the staff at blogcentral has made a conference were the former has been answered to all their questions about SEO. Summary of the best questions: Answers from Google to webmasters.
April 2008.

Start by the design

Essential principles of Web design, the rules. The design contributes to the success of a website.
April 2008.

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