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Need more organization? Make a template-focused site! – Part 1
By Karthik Viswanathan on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Tags: htaccess, php | 2 Comments »
Have you ever had to deal with a sloppy site? Maybe it was when you were working with a client. Or could it be your own site, which you formatted poorly because of inexperience? Regardless, there is a simple yet efficient way to make your site based completely off a template. All it requires is a bit of htaccess and some PHP.
Time for some incentive
This will be a multi-part tutorial in which we explain how to completely transform your site into an organized beast. Today’s section will focus on a few lines of .htaccess that you will soon come to love. But, before we begin, let’s go over a few advantages and some incentive for creating a template-focused site.
Thanks to Our Sponsors
By Karthik Viswanathan on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
We would like to take some time to praise our sponsors located in the sidebar. These people keep Lateral Code up and running! We do our best to provide quality articles in order to make their investments worth it.
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How to easily create top navigation with CSS
By Karthik Viswanathan on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | Tags: css | 4 Comments »
Navigation is a vital part of all websites. Visitors must have ways to traverse through pages to find what they need. Top navigation is a specific style in which links are placed at the top of a website. In this tutorial, we will explore the creation of a pure CSS top navigation.
Note: This article is for CSS beginners!
What makes top navigation so special?
When a user first visits a site, they immediately see the top half of a web page. For a quick fact, this half is known as the area above the fold.
The End of An Era
By Patrick Lin on Monday, October 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes to beloved Geocities.
Geocities started off in 1995, giving users the ability to create their own personal homepages. By 1999, Geocities was the third most visited website on the web, mostly due to its personalized homepages. In January of that year, Yahoo! acquired Geocities. A decade later, Yahoo! announced that they would be axing Geocities today, the 26th of October.
Lateral Cache: Now you too can have a well organized cache without the work!
By Karthik Viswanathan on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | Tags: php | 2 Comments »
In the past few weeks, I have seen many posts addressing the concept of caching. Although it may seem trivial to implement and easy to maintain for some web designers, it is certainly not something everyone is familiar with.
Problem and Solution
The large amount of tutorials have also aroused many different ways to cache. Knowing which ones work effectively can indeed lead to problems. To solve these issues, I spent some time creating a small PHP library, called Lateral Cache, that enables you to have a well organized and sturdy cache with almost no work.