Posts Tagged ‘coding’

Things can only get better

10th May 2006 9:45am by Chris N posted in Archived

Hello Earth! When people come to me seeking a deeper understanding of what a web developer does, I usually mumble something about back ends and databases and how it’s much more interesting to do than talk about. Well today I feel like being more forthcoming, so here’s a post about the joys of web dev.
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Who cares what AJAX stands for?

3rd April 2006 10:03am by Chris N posted in Archived

First, let me introduce myself. I’m Chris. I spend my days at UKFast weaving PHP pages from cold hard text, fiddling with brain-blendingly complex SQL queries and dancing the mystical dance of CSS.
When I’m not dealing with that triumvirate of three letter abbreviations (let’s not get started on the acc vs abb stuff), I like [...]

Image size and uploading

27th March 2006 4:01pm by JB posted in Archived

There’s a running debate over in the creative office here today. The Research and Development team are questioning the Design team on the configuration of images for websites.
The question is: Should a designer spend time dividing the image into sections so that the webpage is loading up a number of separate files, giving the appearance [...]