Tutorials and Scripts for the Web 2.0

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

Google is experimenting the Wikia system

This does not appear on the standard interface of the search engine, but during tests with a limited audience, Google used features similar to that offered by the Wikia engine. When it happens on your searches that you find a blank page, a broken link, a spam, you'd like to be able to inform the engine that this should be deleted from the index, that is what Wikia offers, and what Google is testing by adding buttons to the results: an arrow to move down the page, a cross to delete it. I can not say if this feature will be added to the public interface, knowing that Wikia, which is entirely based on advices from users has a very modest audience, as seen in the previous article of 20 August.
However, the engine is always growing and you will have noticed the integration of Google Suggest at footer of result pages, thus this new feature seems possible.
Source.
August 27, 2008.

Translation from the search bar

A new command is available in the Google search bar: translate. Followed by another word, it displays in the first row of results a translation from some foreign language to English! The language depends upon the country.
Another addition is the integration of Suggest in the new toolbar that lets you know most frequently similar used keywords or that correct typographical mistakes.
A final new from Google: Gears availability to Safari, in a test version.
August 26, 2008.

Google Dance 2008

Google's annual holiday with real robots that are not robots for indexing. To learn more about the RoboNova humanoid robot of the video (and not robanova as written in the video), see Knoler.eu. The event happens to Googleplex at Toronto and the theme of the evening is "Glow in the Dark".
August 25, 2008.

Google still progressing

The site Hitwise has just published the market share for major search engines. In the U.S.:
- Google: 70.77% against 64.35% in July 2007.
- Yahoo: 18.65% against 22.13%.
- Live: 5.36% against 8.79%
- Ask: 3.35% against 3.21%.
About Wikia, the collaborative search engine inspired by Wikipedia, it represents 0.000079% queries in the USA.
Source Hitwise. August 20, 2008.

Information, the key to success

Insights for Search, an onlinetool to guide the webmaster, reminds us that information is the key to success. The article List of statistical tools for webmaster wants to indicate what tools are available and what information they provide to know what visitors are looking on a site, and on the Web in general. This knowledge will be line to follow to make his site popular!
August 18, 2008.

Insights for Search

A new service from Google for webmasters: knowing what the world search for. When you type keywords in the search bar of this service, the interface displays the demand for these keywords, the geographic distribution, the changes over time. It is a refinement of Google Trends.
Insights.
6 August 1006.

Dotclear 2 released

The advantage of Dotclear 2 on Wordpress is the possibility to create a blog or news server on a website in SQLite, without database on the host. In addition, the version 2 has now features of the Wordpress CMS, such as static pages, and suppresses most of the drawbacks of the version 1. Users of this version should migrate to the new version, at the cost of importing the database that is facilitated by the functionality integrated into the software. See the list of CMS. (PHP 5 with SimpleXML and domxml required). August 6, 2008.

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