Site visitors and customers take action based on a website’s credibility. Credibility for all intents and purposes is Believability. This article contains links to research that reveals methods for increasing the credibility of a website. In addition, there are links to improving the overall usability of a website. After reviewing the methods for improving website credibility, believability, and usability you are ready to begin implementing them directly into your project plans. Read the rest of this entry »
Website Credibility
July 10th, 2008Learning UML
July 9th, 2008If a picture is worth 1024 words then a well crafted UML diagram is worth 2048 words. UML diagrams help programmers explain software systems to other developers, project managers, and clients. This article proposes a process for learning UML, recommendations for drawing diagrams, and ways to refine diagrams over time.
Using NaturalDocs
July 7th, 2008Getting up to speed with NaturalDocs will only take a few minutes. This article will show you:
- Where to find the NaturalDocs executables
- Where to find commenting guidelines
- Setup a sample project workspace
- Automate NaturalDocs with a simple Windows Batch File
Personal Firewall for Windows
June 27th, 2008I recommend installing the personal firewall from Comodo available at: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ on Windows boxes.
Using PHP to load browser-specific styles
June 27th, 2008PHP allows programmers to detect the browser and operating system for every page visitor. This capability isn’t limited to PHP, but that’s what we’ll be working with today. This article is a proposed workflow for solving browser-specific CSS bugs.
Using Browser Testing Suites
June 26th, 2008Testing CSS has been a hurdle for many web developers and their HTML-based projects. This article contains a proposed workflow for fixing CSS discrepancies found during CSS testing.
NaturalDocs
June 22nd, 2008NaturalDocs allows developers to review and share their code comments in a browser. ActionScript, C#, and Perl developers should consider using this documentation generator because these languages are fully supported by NaturalDocs. Fully supported languages come with the following features:
- Implicit comment generation
- Inheritence diagrams
- Automatic scope detection
Read on to see if NaturalDocs is the right tool for the job. Read the rest of this entry »