About Us pages are without a doubt among the most important sections of a website. It’s your identity, vision, goals and accomplishments, all wrapped up in a couple of tidy paragraphs. Since it’s a relatively short introduction, it is an absolute must that it makes a lasting impact on those who view it. Therefore, the palette must be coordinated, the […] The post 45 Tips On How To Make About Us Pages More Engaging appeared first on Line25.

Decorative fonts are like the symbol of creativity and thinking outside the box. They feature uncommon, unusual, and weird letter designs unlike any other font, giving you an opportunity to create things with unique and personalized designs. We handpicked a collection of the best decorative fonts to show you how useful and creative decorative fonts […]

On the StarTutorial.com site, they've posted the latest in their article series covering design patterns and their implementation in PHP. In this latest tutorial they cover the simple factory pattern. To help illustrate the point of the pattern they use an example of a toy company with an ever-expanding line of toys. Dragon Inc. is one of the top toy manufacturers in China. In fact, they're a pioneer in toy manufacturing. They started production at a time when few toys were being produced commercially. Hence, they dominated the market and became the leader in the toy production industry. The initial version of their produceToy method only had to worry about toy cars and helicopters. As their line expanded, it needed to be updated for "jumping frogs" too. Adding each new toy to the single function would be difficult to maintain but the simple factory pattern came to the rescue. It allowed for the abstraction of the toy object creation out to other handling and other objects, breaking the functionality up in accordance with the Single Responsibility Principle.

What exactly is HTTP/3? Why was it needed so soon after HTTP/2 (which was only finalized in 2015)? How can or should you use it? And especially, how does this improve web performance? Let's find out.

(This is a sponsored post.) Static site generators are popular for their speed, security, and user experience. However, sometimes your application needs data that is not available when the site is built. React is a library for building user … The post Accessing Your Data With Netlify Functions and React appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

Forms are an essential part of just about every website - yet, we don't always pay too much attention to their finer details. There are a number of things that... The post 10 JavaScript and CSS Tools to Enhance Your Forms appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

As the web continues to evolve and new browser technologies continue to emerge, the line between native and web development becomes more and more blurred. New APIs are unlocking the ability to code entirely new categories of software in the browser. Until recently, the ability to interact with digital musical instruments has been limited to native, desktop applications. The Web MIDI API is here to change that. In this article, we'll cover the basics of MIDI and the Web MIDI API to see how simple it can be to create a web app that responds to musical input using JavaScript.

The PHP-FIG group, the ones responsible for the standards that helped to make Composer a real possibility (PSR-0 and PSR-4) have posted a general update of the various PSRs that are currently in progress and a brief summary of the status on each. Hello everyone, we (the secretaries) decided it was time to post a status update for the PSR which are pending, as a way to update you members and the whole community on our work, and also to start discussion around some PSR that need a little more participation. Current PSRs in the list include: PSR-5: PHP docblock recommendations PSR-12: Coding style guidelines PSR-17: HTTP factories PST-19: Streams/Async processing If you would like to participate in the working group for any of the items listed in the full post, reply to it and the group will get back with you shortly.

A,A At php[world] in October, Oscar Merida announced the winners of thid yearA?AEURA(TM)s Impact Awards. WeA?AEURA(TM)re bringing back the annual awards to help recognize valuable contributors to the PHP community. Winners were tallied after two rounds of voting by php[architect] magazine authors. Bes...

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