Monthly Archives: August 2010

Character encodings in HTML

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) has been in use since 1991, but HTML 4.0 (December 1997) was the first standardized version where internationalcharacters were given reasonably complete treatment. When an HTML document includes special characters outside the range of seven-bit ASCII two goals are worth considering: the information’s integrity, and universal browser display. HTML HTML and HTML5 Dynamic HTML XHTML XHTML Mobile […]

List of XML and HTML character entity references

In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference. This article lists the character entity […]

XHTML

XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written. While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, […]

Template processor

A template processor (also known as a template engine or a template parser) is software or a software component that is designed to combine one or moretemplates with a data model to produce one or more result documents.  For purposes of this article, a result document is any kind of formatted output, including documents, web pages, or source code, either in whole or in fragments. […]

List of PHP editors

This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language. Free editors Cross Platform ActiveState Komodo Edit Bluefish – Supports any protocol that is supported by GnomeVFS. (SSH…) Eclipse – PHPEclipse and PHP Development Tools projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, Database modelling, SSH/FTP access, Database Navigation, Trac integration, and others. Emacs – Advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has […]

List of PHP accelerators

Alternative PHP Cache Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free, open source framework that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory. APC is quickly becoming the de-facto standard PHP caching mechanism as it will be included built-in to the core of PHP starting with PHP 6. Home […]

PHP accelerator

A PHP accelerator is an extension designed to boost the performance of software applications written using the PHP programming language. Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiledbytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request (some or all of which may never even be executed). For best performance, caching is to shared […]

Search engine optimization copywriting

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Copywriting is textual composition for web page marketing that emphasizes skillful manipulation of the page’s wording to place it among the first results of auser‘s search list, while still producing readable and persuasive content. The text appearing at specific locations, such as in the title tag and the Meta Tag of the page’s code, […]

Image search optimization

Image search optimization (or image search engine optimization) is the process of organizing the content of a webpage to increase relevance to a specific keyword on image search engines. Like search engine optimization, the aim is to achieve a higher organic search listing and thus increasing the volume of traffic from search engines. Image search optimization techniques can be viewed […]

Search engine optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a […]