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15+ Awesome Firefox Extensions to Improve the FireBug

March 2, 2018October 4, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

FireBug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and check your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

Well, it can do more than you could ever imagine with all these FireBug extensions which improved your work. FireBug extensions typically come in the form of Firefox add-ons. In this post, I have found 15 extensions that will boosts your web development speed!

The Essential Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

July 27, 2017September 14, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Have you ever read our The Essential Web Browsers Extensions for Web Developers series? And now, you can read about The Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Designers.

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web browsers. As of August 2010, Chrome was the third most widely used browser, with 7.54% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to Net Applications.

We’ve taken some of most useful Chrome Extensions which may help for your works.

Google Buzz Tips: The Missing Manual

November 8, 2015September 1, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Do you know Google Buzz? Buzz seem to be divided between those who think it will topple Facebook and those who have already discounted it.
The launch wasn’t a storming success, but Google Buzzis a pretty nifty tool – especially when you start mucking around with it.
Google Buzz is a new way to publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. It has an option to see thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.
Here are some tips that help you use Google Buzz in new interesting ways.

10+ Considerations When Choosing VPS Hosting

January 15, 2022July 15, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

A Virtual private server, or VPS, may be the hosting solution you are looking for. If your website is experiencing immense growth, it may be better to host the site on a VPS. A shared hosting environment tends to be unstable and your growing site may be taking up too much resources. Having a VPS ensures that you are allocated a fixed amount of resources. You don’t have to worry about resource hogging. In addition, you can also make custom tweaks to your site that requires admin rights. You can’t do that in a shared hosting environment.

Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is a flexible, scalable, and economical hosting solution that can fit the needs of almost any kind of website. It’s a perfect solution for those who have outgrown their shared hosting plans but don’t really need to move to a dedicated server.
With so many hosting businesses out there how can you ensure you choose one of the more reputable ones? Here are a few pointers that should help steer you in the right direction:

Rounding Up the Most Promising Free WYSIWYG and Markup Editor

March 2, 2018June 13, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, slide presentation or even the lighting for a theatrical event.

WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document is being created. In general WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands. The actual meaning depends on the user’s perspective, e.g

Most of the available Content Management System and other publishing platform in the web are using WYSIWYG editor for easy page editing. So I will rounding up to you the most promising Javascript WYSIWYG editor in the web.

10+ Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

October 25, 2016April 26, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Just imagine, then, the all-consuming sorrow of losing weeks, months or even years of blog posts or other site content. Your hosting company may provide a responsible backup service (or you may have a well-considered system in place if your site is self-hosted) but some extra insurance can be crucial if the unexpected happens (as it did for one of our client sites today).
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. Backup is vital but it needs to be painless otherwise people just do it less often (which defeats the purpose, your backup should not really be older than a couple of days ago).

The ways which I’ve ever tried, an ideal backup procedure should be simple, heavily automated and give quick recovery option for almost any problem. Your backup must be up-to-date and it’s can store on your computer, another hosting server, another online storage service ….
Choosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you which has listed below

CSS Sprites – Techniques, Tutorials And Tools | The Good and The Bad

August 4, 2017April 12, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Sprites were originally invented as a method of quickly compositing several images together in two-dimensional video games using special hardware. As computer performance improved, this optimization became unnecessary and the term evolved to refer specifically to the two-dimensional images themselves that were integrated into a scene.

Sprites were displayed over a static or dynamic background image, and the positioning of the sprite was controlled simply by the hardware controllers.
Apply Video games images render techniques above to Web development then we have CSS Sprites. In fact, CSS Sprites are not new, in some situation they can bring significant advantages and improvements – particularly if you want to reduce your server load.

CSS sprites is the technique of combing images to lessen the number of calls that need to be made to the server. Then you just shift the position of the background image to view the correct part of the image. May sound complicated, but it just takes a little math.

Making Awesome Form’s Inline Labels with jQuery

September 11, 2016April 5, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Have you ever visit Apple’s MobileMe website? The login screen has form labels that are written within the value of their associated input field.

Inline labels are nothing new – in fact the easiest way to label a field is to simply set the field value up front and blow it away when the field gains focus. This is handy way for designers to save space and make their designs cleaner all-around. Unfortunately for us developers, simply setting the input value isn’t very semantic or usable then you can’t do it simple. I’ve just use a little jQuery to make it all happen.

Improve Your Page Performance With jQuery Lazy Loader

July 26, 2016March 29, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. Using lazy load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load. Lazyloader inspired by YUI ImageLoaderUtility by Matt Mlinac.

Lazy loading is a design pattern commonly used in computer programming to defer initialization of an object until the point at which it needed. It can give to efficiency in the program’s operation if properly and appropriately used.

Simple and Lightweight but Powerful CMS Solutions

13 Simple & Lightweight but Powerful & Free CMS Solutions

February 4, 2017March 22, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

CMS or Content Management Systems is a very efficient tool to keep up and manage websites and the content thereof. But how well a CMS caters to your requirements depends a great deal on your choice of the same. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For simple sites, lots of bells and whistles can be overkill and actually be a bit confusing for the person maintaining the website.

In this article, you’ll find 10+ Simple and Lightweight but Powerful and Free Content Management Systems that may not garner as much attention as their more popular counterparts – but should.

Input vs Button – Which to use?

March 18, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

While working on form design, I encountered some issues when using images as submit buttons. The input with the type=”submit” is either too ugly (Firefox), a little buggy (Internet Explorer) or completely inflexible (Safari). The solution for most is to use image inputs and create the damn things ourselves.
View this example:

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