Monday, September 10, 2007

LAMP vs WAMP

PHP developers often confuse which combination to choose.LAMP consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP where as WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP.LAMP is considered to be safer as compared to WAMP.Moreover using open source software on Windows servers can be limited by what has been “packaged” in the Windows distribution.

Some people may want to test pages on a windows machine, without having to have access to a linux server to do it. AS a developer I work that kind of setup.

The bottom line is that WAMP setups may be a good choice without having to overcome the huge learning curve of the command line that comes with LAMP servers.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Make your website more userfriendly with AJAX

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.At the core of all this is XMLHttpRequest. Data, content, and design are merged together into a seamless whole. When a user clicks on something on an Ajax driven application, there is very little lag time. It allows a call to be made to the server and data to be returned, all through JavaScript. A user can click on a button and instead of refreshing the whole page, you just update the parts of the page that have changed.

Ajax is a way of developing Web applications that combines:
XHTML and CSS standards based presentation
Interaction with the page through the DOM
Data interchange with XML and XSLT
Asynchronous data retrieval with XMLHttpRequest
JavaScript to tie it all together

Once only available in Internet Explorer, it has made its way into other browsers like Firefox, Safari and Opera. And with the increased support has come the flood of new implementations.

A website plays an important role in Business

A web site can do a lot for you and your business.A web site is an invaluable business tool for both you and your clients.Your web site enables you to make, as much information available to customers as you think is needed.It can enable customers to find out all the information they need about your products.

A web site can give also contact facilities e-mail, phone, fax… so that your clients can reach you easily.

You will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days of the year,without more employees or customer service. No need for a lot of money for advertising.