Introduction to Java

Java is both a platform as well as a programming language.
Java as a programming language
High level language is the category into which the java programming language falls into, and it can be described by words like simple, object oriented, multithreaded, distributed, portable, secure, high performance, robust, architecture neutral and dynamic.
The java programming language requires all […]

Types of Databases

There are basically two types of databases
1) flat-file
2) relational
The usage and the aptness is dependent on the type of data and the quantity of data which is to be processed and how frequently it will be brought to use.
Flat-File
The simple data can be stored in this type; they are perfect for a little bit of […]

Introduction to Database Design - Step 4 Database joins

To keep related data together, the best way to set up an organized database is by setting up multiple tables. For e.g. in a news site, we keep news with news separated from authors, blogs separated from news. It is easy because then it is easy and quicker for the database to locate the related […]

Introduction to Database Design - Step 3 Database Indexes

The speeding up of retrieval of the data in a database is the work of a database index. They help in organizing and thus easing up the work of the database, thus speeding up the process of retrieval as the data is mainly put into simple organized indexes, the load on the server is also […]

Introduction to Database Design - Step 2

If you plan to have comments on the news articles, then they will need a separate indexing of who the author is, what is his contact, whether he is a member or not and so on and so forth. Whether you want only existing authors to be able to make comment or you want to […]

The first step to database designing

Introduction
Databases are omnipresent everywhere, many a times without us realizing their presence. Take the example of a telephone directory, it is also a database, but we rarely realize it, it stores numbers, grids, addresses, names. Databases are convenient in a way that they allow us to quickly search the information and also are great […]

CSS – part 2

Effectiveness of style sheetsThe display of HTML elements are defined by the Styles sheets e.g. of which would be the font tag and color attribute in HTML 3.2. External CSS files normally do the work of saving these files these external style sheets enable you to morph the layout and appearance of the pages by […]

CSS- Part 1

Before you begin coding CSS you need to have a basic understanding of XHTML/HTML is necessary for beginners
The term CSS means Cascading Style Sheets, these styles determine how the HTML elements are displayed and these style are usually kept in style sheets. Initially styles was an addition to solve a problem in HTML 4.0 and […]

Cross Browser Compatibility - Part2 (Other Issues)

The previous article on Cross Browser Compatibility dealt with the basics definition of cross browser compatibility and the dilemma of a web designer, in this part let’s look at other aspects..
HTML Editors
Compatibility problems arise even with hand coding in HTML, tables need to be used and layers have to be converted, […]

Cross Browser Compatibility - Part1 (Overview)

What is Cross Browser Compatibility?
In a layman’s language, if we use different browsers i.e. user interface, the design and layout of different web pages will be different for different users. The web designers thus have a lot of difficulty in trying to find the code that will make sure that the web page looks the […]