URL Parameters are something that you see in the URLs a lot these days. They look like “http://www.example.com/?category=xyz”, where “category” is the parameter name and “xyz” is the parameter value. These typically appear in the URL of a page when we submit a form on the previous page, and it sends the data to the action page via a GET method. ...
At times, you might have seen websites where the selection colour of the text is different than the typical, default blue colour. This thing can be achieved simply by using minimal lines of code in your styling. This tutorial is going to be a very small one, in which I would just tell you the way to change the selection colour and then also change the styling of your text when it is selected. For the demo, I have a sample paragraph just at the end of the tutorial, where you would be able to see everything in action. ...
Heavy websites take a lot of time to load and this can be annoying for the user browsing the website. It seems better to let the user know that the website is loading and to have patience, rather than having the user see half-loaded or the still loading website. There are numerous ways to do that, but in today’s tutorial, I am going to show you a way to show a simple coloured screen with a loading animation on the enter of the page. Once the page loads, this animation will fade out to the completely loaded website. For this tutorial, I am going to use the jQuery background Image slideshow that we created in the last tutorial. In case you missed it, feel free to check it out first. ...
A lot of Android application these days make use of a List View (or ListView) to display the contents to the users on their mobile devices. These lists vary from the most simple one, with just a text to the ones with a lot of elements like an image and various text fields. Today, I decided to teach you all how to create a simple List View in Android. In this small tutorial, I will tell you how to create a simple List View, which will look something like the image below and then when any list item is clicked, we will generate a toast at this moment, saying that so-and-so list item was selected. ...
Android Application Development is the new boom in the programming industry these days. A lot of companies are planning to come up with their Android Applications for the customers and readers. A successful Android Application consists of various small code snippets that you implement in the application. These snippets can range from a simple copy to clipboard function or a function to share the content shown on the screen via some other app to the pretty intense game programming. ...
Web developers at times need to display some information to the users via a means of a popup. Clearly, the regular popups don’t look professional at all. Thus, to create professional looking stylish popups was a demand for the web developers. Hence, jQuery popups came into being. These popups don’t open any new window or tab in the users browser. It just creates a popup, which is displayed on the same page and does not look annoying. ...
Last week, I discussed with you all how to improve your page loading time by implementing Lazy Loading on your webpage. Well, that’s not the only thing you can do to improve your page loading time. There are various other ways and one of them is to compress your CSS files. Sometimes, compressing of CSS files is called **Minify**, as it decreases the lines of code in the CSS file. In case you missed my earlier article on how to Lazy load images on your webpage, you can go ahead and read it now. ...
In Android apps, programmers generally like to display a few important messages by making use of a toast. Just like in a webpage, developers make use of JavaScript alert boxes, in a similar way, the toasts work for the Android developers. If you do not know what a toast is, let me show it to you with the help of an example. The image shown below contains a toast at the bottom of the screen. If you wish to read more about toasts, you can do so by heading over to the official Android Developer website. ...
Creating Fast and quick loading web pages are the things a client wants these days. Moreover, the developer themselves want to create such pages. There are various ways to boost up your page loading time, one of them being optimizing your images for a quick page load. Now, to optimize your images, there are two things you can do, either decrease the quality of your image and reduce its size or you can Lazy load your images with this trick to decrease your page loading time greatly. ...
Creating an animation is sometimes considered vital for various projects. But loading your website with flash animations can make the load time for your webpage quite high! So, to avoid increasing your page load time and the time you spend in creating that flash animation, you can simply use CSS to implement a simple animation on your web page. There are various advantages of using CSS to implement a simple animation, which include reducing the page load time, reducing your development time and various other things. Keeping all these in mind, I thought of sharing this simple tutorial with everyone on my blog. Well, here is the simple tutorial for you. For this tutorial, I would be using a pretty common cloud image, which suits pretty well for our animation. If you want, you can save this image from below and use it for this tutorial. ...