Many people resort to purchasing specific programs to help them add text to HTML images. However, if you understand the basics of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, this article will show you how to perform this technique yourself.
Cascading style sheets are great for building all sorts of eye-catching background effects for web pages. CSS allows the utilization of JPG, PNG and GIF images, which can be easily repeated along the X and Y coordinates. This facilitates the creation of professional-looking web documents by using only a few tiny background graphics that can be downloaded quickly by way of a browser. Discuss (1)
In our last CSS tutorial, published about a month ago, we covered some of the Classification properties, which allow you to display elements, position them, choose where they will appear, control their visibility, and a whole lot more. In this article we will finish the discussion.
The default buttons produced by the tag <input type="button" value="Function-Mane"> or <button type="button">Function-Name</Button> are gray in color. The gray button color suits many backgrounds, just as the white shirt suits many colors of trousers. There are times when you need a different color shirt for a particular color of trousers. In a similar way there are times when you would need a button of a different color for your particular web page background. Discuss (1)
The incorporation of Ajax-based geographical mapping applications, like the popular Yahoo! Maps, into an existing website can help to increase the number of potential visitors. So, if you're a web developer who wants to boost your web site's traffic by working with this powerful Yahoo! Ajax framework, or if you simply want to expand your skills in using its main features, then this series of articles might be what you're looking for. Discuss (1)
In our last article we learned how to create a static web page with Rails and learned all about the workings of the grand Model-View-Controller architecture. In this article I am going to teach you how to create dynamic pages using Rails as your framework. Discuss (1)
Many applications (e.g. Microsoft Word) have a menu as their first bar. If you have a web site that has many pages, you can create a similar menu bar where, if you click a menu item, a drop-down menu with links will appear over other content on the page. You might have seen this on some web pages already. Keep reading if you would like to learn how to build this for your web site. Discuss (1)
Welcome to the fifth part of the series “Working with Yahoo! Maps.” This series teaches you how to implement the most useful features that come packaged with the Yahoo! Maps Ajax framework. It will permit you to include powerful, highly interactive maps into your own website by using a combination of basic structural markup and a few lines of JavaScript code. Discuss (1)
In our last article I left you with a cliffhanger -- you learned to create a third of your first web application with Rails. If you are back here reading this article then my evil plot worked. In this episode we will continue building our first application in Rails and learn to create a basic skeletal framework. Discuss (1)
In this conclusion to a three-part series covering the three different kinds of deployment frameworks you can use with Java games, you'll learn how to deploy multiple Java applets as if they were all one applet. This article is excerpted from chapter two of Advanced Java Game Programming, written by David Wallace Croft (Apress; ISBN: 1590591232). Discuss (1)
In this article, I will be going over the various features of a bulleted menu of links, including how to implement them in your web page. All explanations will be accompanied by code samples to help you through this process. If you want to learn more about this common web page function, then, by all means, keep reading. Discuss (2)
This is the fourth part of the series “Working with Yahoo! Maps.” If you’re a web developer who’s interested in learning the key concepts surrounding the utilization of Yahoo! Maps within the context of your web applications, then this article series might be for you. In it you’ll find comprehensive examples that will let you put this useful Ajax framework to work for you in a very short time. Discuss (1)
NEW! Addressing software-as-a-service challenges using Tivoli security and WebSphere solutions Building a software-as-a-service solution requires addressing a few key technical challenges. In this webcast, we'll focus on the role of IBM Tivoli Directory Server and WebSphere Portlet Factory in creating a Software as a Service solution. We will demonstrate how to use Tivoli Directory Server to prevent the user population of one tenant from accessing the virtual portal and portlet components of another tenant. We will also use the dynamic profile capability of WebSphere Portlet Factory to create multiple highly customized applications from one code base.
NEW! IBM – Taking Web 2.0 to Work David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.
NEW! Application Development Tools for the Mainframe Developer You probably have thousands of lines of COBOL code loaded with business intelligence and being used to run your business, along with an army of developers maintaining these applications. Learn how to prepare your applications and developers so you can keep that competitive edge and move to a service-oriented architecture with the IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization solutions. Replay is available for 9 months.
NEW! Achieving True Agility -- How process can change the behavior of your tools Achieving true agility is a never-ending effort. We will showcase how you can become agile incrementally, a few practices at the time.Which practices should any agile team strive to adopt? What additional practices should you consider based on your needs to scale? Adopting practices are however made much easier with the right tool support. What about if your tools adapt to your practices? We will take a look at how the Jazz technology can be leveraged to make your process change the behavior of your tools.
Be the first to hear about i5/OS V6R1! Hold your calendar on January 30, 2008 for this free webcast on the new i5/OS. Rational's Enterprise Modernization products will be discussed at this webcast as they help to drive the application development environment for this new System i OS. And learn how i5/OS will take you to the next step of efficient, resilient business processing. You will hear about the new i5/OS capabilities as it will be the most significant i5/OS release in years. If you cannot join the webcast on 1/30/08 you can still use this link to listen to the replay.
Build Forge Express demo: Enabling software delivery excellence for small and midsized businesses This demonstration gives you an overview of IBM® Rational® Build Forge Express Edition, a global offering that provides a framework to automate and execute software processes. Rational Build Forge provides a software assembly line that can support all of your tools, technologies, and platforms so you can achieve a repeatable, reliable, and traceable build and release process.
IBM – Taking Web 2.0 to Work You'll get answers to many questions and more from David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies. David will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.
Check out the new Jazz space on developerWorks You've heard the buzz about Jazz... want to know more about it from a developer's perspective? Check out the Jazz space on developerWorks. This space is an up-to-date resource for developers, including technical information about Jazz and products built on Jazz, like Rational Team Concert Express. The Jazz space includes content from a wide variety of sources, including links, feeds, and comments from experts.
NEW! Application development for the OLPC laptop The XO laptop (of the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative) is an inexpensive laptop project intended to help educate children around the world. The XO laptop includes many innovations, such as a novel, inexpensive, and durable hardware design and the use of GNU/Linux as the underlying operating system. The XO also includes an application environment written in Python with a human interface called Sugar, accessible to everyone (including kids). Explore the Sugar APIs and learn how to develop and debug a graphical activity in Sugar using Python.
NEW! Driving Business Success with Rational Process Library Join this webcast, to learn how the Rational Process Library can help with compliance issues, drive process improvement, and assist in service-oriented architecture (SOA) or Agile development. We will take a peek into the Rational Process Library with content around software and systems engineering (including RUP), operations and systems management, program and portfolio management, and asset and SOA governance.
NEW! Best Practices: The Integrated Project and Portfolio Management Platform. Hear how IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management integrated solutions help teams put the right tools and processes in place to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of project teams and ensure that the business vision is being executed correctly. Learn how to automate and integrate requirements prioritization, top-down project planning, communications and controls, and methodology deployment to keep your scope, costs, and schedules under control. Tackle with an end-to-end approach the management of scope and scope changes, usage of methodology to control and empower project teams, and optimization of resources to align activity costs with the overall project plan.
