Archive for March, 2009

Keyword Research Essentials Part 1: Tools

In this post, Mihaela Lica lists some free research tools for finding the best keywords to help publishers and webmasters write the most effective and compelling SEO copy.

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Using Simple Checksums for Web Form Verification with Ajax

As you know, Ajax is a technology that can be used to perform all sorts of clever tasks; this includes building web forms that are less vulnerable to attacks from malicious web bots. Indeed, its pretty simple to develop certain mechanisms that permit the dynamic generation of verification codes via Ajax, which must be entered manually by a user before submitting an HTML form. This is the second part of a four-part series that shows you how to make your web forms safer with Ajax.
– Introduction
Actually, building a web form checking system like this can be an instructive experience, particularly for those web developers whom need to code safer online forms without using a server-side graphic library to generate quot;noisy images quot; on the fly.
So, if you’re interested…

Protecting Web Forms with AJAX

Are you looking for a new way to protect your web forms from malicious hackers and spam bots? Then you’ve come to the right place. In this four-part article series, you’ll learn how to use Ajax to protect those forms. Keep reading to learn how to build an Ajax-based verification code mechanism that you can use on your own web site.
– Introduction
With the Web being widely inundated by spam bots these days, its not surprising that many conscientious web developers have started creating different mechanisms aimed at protecting HTML forms against fake submissions.
Ranging from generating the so-called noisy images to including si…

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Registry

By Quentin Zervaas. In this article in the Zend Framework 101 series I will introduce you to the Zend_Registry class. This class used is to allow you manage variables and objects in the global application namespace. This is used as an alternative to using global variables in PHP. I will show you how to use the Zend_Registry class and also provide a practical example of where it would be useful to use the registry.

Zend Framework 101: Zend_Loader

By Quentin Zervaas. In this article I will introduce you to Zend_Loader, a Zend Framework class used to automatically load other classes. Typically you would use include_once or require_once when you want to load a class but using Zend_Loader you don’t have to.

How Google Really Wants You to Optimize Your Site

Google is “delighted” when sites are optimized for search — the Googlebot goes all warm and fuzzy when you do all the work for it, as Mihaela explains in this short collection of SEO-related questions and answers.

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Build a Buzzword Bingo Card in PHP

Bored in meetings? Worry no longer. Raena demonstrates how to ease the pain of meetings by creating your own buzzword bingo game using a scrap of beginner PHP.

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