Developer Tools
Different By Design
So this week marks a new phase in the life of Web Hosting Help Guy. Since our inception way back in the last decade, we’ve endeavored to bring to the the design and development community helpful articles, trends, new tools and methods, and generally any information that we thought might be of use. That part of our mission has not changed, and we doubt it ever will.
What is changing, however, is the way we plan on bringing you this information. In addition to our tutorials, how-to posts, and extended
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Usability – Track, Test, And Improve Your Website
As a web designer, you’re surely familiar with the basics of usability – that is, you know the usual rules about designing a website so anyone who navigates to it will have the easiest time getting around. Underlined links? Check. Text hierarchy? Got it. Site map for for ease of use and SEO purposes? You know it.
But did you ever wonder how those rules came into effect? Yes, some are well-worn, tried-and-true principles of graphic design. How, though, did web usability gurus like Jakob Nielsen come to modify and apply these principles to the Web? The answer is
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htaccess: Redirect, Rewrite, and Relax
Being a sysadmin is no picnic – you’re constantly called on to assess and fix problems that vary widely. Learning .htaccess won’t solve everything, but it’s a pretty versatile solution. It allows you to override a server’s global configuration to accomplish specific tasks without changing settings server-wide.
Moreover, whatever task you want to accomplish will be done every time, since the configurations are inherited and modified by the subdirectories. It’s the Showtime Rotisserie Gold of code – set and forget it.
We’ve polled our systems wizards to find out their
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Linux Command Line Tips And Tricks
All developers and sysadmins who work in a Linux environment are familiar with the following scenario – you’re at the command prompt and you know exactly what you’re trying to do, but you just can’t think of (or find) the right commands to accomplish the task in one fell swoop. Frustrated, you pound your way through four steps, finally accomplishing the task that you know you could have taken care of in one step – if only you had known the right step.
Luckily for you, we’ve gathered together our brightest Linux minds and command line ninjas and asked them to
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