Create a Contact Form using AJAX and PHP

A contact form is something that is essential for any website. Not having a contact form is never a good idea. Now, in order to make a contact form, you will be required to develop the front-end (that is visible to the user) and also develop the back-end (that is not visible to the user, but sends the actual email). There are various technologies you can use as the back-end, but I prefer using PHP for all my projects. So, for this tutorial, I would use PHP as the back-end and HTML as the front-end. In this tutorial I will teach you how to make a contact form using AJAX and PHP. ...

March 9, 2015 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

5+ Tips to create a Responsive Design

Responsive designs are the most in-demand thing these days for the web. There are various ways by which you can create a responsive design, which includes using a highly responsive framework like Bootstrap or some other framework. Another way around is to use your own design and write media queries into CSS to make your design fit to the device of your choice. I have already discussed these things in a few of my articles previously. You may have a look at those articles first and then proceed with these articles. ...

January 8, 2015 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

Slash Coding is back now!

Hey reader. I would like to apologize for not being able to post on Slash Coding for over four months now. I have been really busy with my college, and I have also been working on various projects over the last three months, which took almost the entire time. But I did not forget about Slash Coding. In the last four months, I have changed a lot of things over at Slash Coding, here is a list: ...

December 13, 2014 · 2 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

Creating a stylish jQuery Tooltip using a Plugin

I can bet that you have seen a tooltip on almost every page that you visit. Web developers may know this by the name of a** _title attribute _for an element**. The value for the title is displayed as a tooltip on HTML browsers. For instance, if you hover on any image on Slash Coding, you will see what the image is in the form of a simple tooltip. But today, I will provide you a simple guide which will help you create a customized, stylish jQuery tooltip using a jQuery plugin. You may hover on this image, and you will get a simple HTML tooltip showing you the title of that image. ...

June 27, 2014 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

Using Google fonts on your Website

Earlier last week, I shared a tutorial with you on how to use custom fonts on your website to get the desired result on your webpages. Regarding that, one of the readers emailed me asking to share a tutorial on how to use Google fonts in your website design. I thought of sharing this tutorial with everyone, and hence this post. Before I get into the steps to follow, let me tell you what are Google fonts. ...

June 26, 2014 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

Responsive Design vs Mobile Website : The Battle

People have started using mobile devices for browsing the web, and a lot of people spend more time on their mobile phones than on their laptops. When browsing the internet on the phone, everyone would like to view a website that is optimized for viewing on a mobile device. If you try to open the full-desktop size website on your mobile device, it might come out not-so-well formatted. This is because that website was built with keeping a computer screen in mind. ...

June 23, 2014 · 3 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

How to Create a Sticky Menu Bar using jQuery

I bet you have seen quite a few websites where in when you scroll the webpage, the menu bar of that webpage gets fixed or stuck at the top to allow you to easily navigate the website. In technical terms, it is called a Sticky Menu Bar. A sticky item is something that just sticks to any given position on the webpage, and it can be anywhere that you want. ...

June 20, 2014 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

4 Tips to Create a Top Selling Idea For your Business

Creating an idea for a project is one of the most tough jobs. Deciding on what thing to do that would help people, or in turn just earn money for some people is very difficult. Despite these facts, there a few tips that you can keep in mind to create a top selling idea in your field of business. ...

June 17, 2014 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

How to use Custom Fonts in your Web Design : 2 Ways

Custom Fonts for a website, or a single webpage are becoming common these days. The reason behind this is that people want to showcase the content on their website in various different fonts, and the natively supported fonts on various computers and browsers is very low. I have **used a lot of different fonts **for different websites that I have worked on, and they have turned out great. Now, the problem with using Custom Fonts is that you are unaware if the user would have that specific font installed or not. So, to overcome this problem, we can take any of the following measures, that I will get to in a minute. ...

June 13, 2014 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar

5 Things to Do when Not Coding

Doing something for a very very long time makes you bored of that thing, and changing your mind from that is very important at that time. For people who do not work all day in front of a computer screen, taking a break would mean getting on the computer and checking your social media accounts, but for people who are in front of the computer all day, getting on to social networks is not going to be an easy break. They would still be putting strain on their eyes. ...

June 9, 2014 · 4 min · Aneesh Bhatnagar