Most websites we see that have maps embedded use Google maps (and some unfortunate ones still use MapQuest), and it works pretty darn well. However, I recently started working with Microsoft Live maps(also called Microsoft MapPoint) again, and I must say I prefer developing in Microsoft Maps way better than on Google maps.
Before I go further into the explanations, I need to note that I love the color configuration on the Microsoft live maps better. I often like to have subtle designs for the non-design elements in my sites. …

While I was re-designing my whole site (which I am still working on in many other sections), I ran into several CSS issues where things just did NOT look the same on Internet Explorer and Firefox. And of course it has been, and will be, a never-ending struggle as long as all these browsers are slightly different from each other, and over all this time I came to come up with some general rules of thumb in order to ensure cross-browser compatibility. So I’ll list a few of them here.

When …

Right now, as you can see in the other sections of my website, I’m re-designing everything on my site. It will be a much cooler site that is easier for me to update later. I will reveal and explain the CSS code and what not later as a tutorial.
This new website incorporates a lot of CSS tricks I learned through Wordpress, and will be a hell of a lot better than the last design which took me very short time.

” . . . if it works on FF, the chances of it working well on IE7 is very high. It’s a math’s game – it’s my method to reduce the amount of failed products.”

I reverted back to Internet Explorer 6 today after upgrading to 7 for a while. If I weren’t a web developer I wouldn’t have done this, but I am. And I need to make sure my projects will work in FF, IE6 and IE7. And here’s what I felt and found over the last …

“It bugs me more than ever when I see a registration email coming from a website I just registered to, saying “Hello, your password is xxxxxxx”. This is just wrong. I do not want my password written ANYWHERE in the world. That tells me that the website is not secure, and the web developers obviously did not do their due diligence.”
First of all, if you do not know what an MD5 Hash concept is, read this description I found on the Wikipedia page for MD5 :
MD5 processes a variable-length message …

I had a lot of people asking me how I learned all my PHP coding skills as well as AJAX… Well, if you’re up for the task, and have patience, and the intelligence (if you are a natural with math, physics and other logic-driven subjects, you’d do just fine) to handle it, all of it can be learned online. I am a fully self-taught coder – I never took a class of any sort in my whole life (apart from the crappy computer courses taught in the public school systems). …

Traditionally, pageviews (or impressions, as the advertising industry often refers to as) were the main scope of indicating how much activity and traffic volume a website gets. Also, the value of each visitors were traditionally measured by the ratio between visitors and pageviews. The more the better, was the simple equation. This is still very true to so many websites out there, including Wordpress-driven blogs like this one. To go from one post to another, or to go from the main page to the full post, a click on a …