Sleep mode for websites

It is estimated that if color of Google’s search page changed to black from white, world will save about 750 MW energy per year. But, that’s only for Google! what about other sites? Webmasters prefer attractive combination of colors over plain black or white so as to gain attention of audience. I’m not opposing use of colors for websites but, we can save much more energy if user moves away from his machine while accessing any website. You might be thinking of how this is possible?

Building a Star with pure CSS

Yesterday, I was looking specifically to create a star shape as a specific requirement. Most of the websites were using an image for creating that angled shape. Then I came across techniques of creating angled shapes with pure CSS. Creating triangles with empty HTML and their borders is not new. Most of you might be using these techniques while designing your sites. But, after browsing through some tutorials I didn’t got what I was looking for - A Star Shape off-course without image.
Then, an idea stuck to mind of creating it with those empty HTML elements and CSS3. This is how I did it.

Plug-ins for rich text editors on your website

Most of the blogs, CMSes, forums and websites use a plain text editor for allowing their readers to create, edit content and comments. But, with web 2.0, rise of HTML5 and many cross browser scripting languages like jQuery made it very simple to convert those plain text-areas into rich text editors and  to have more control with users for content they create. 

In this post, I will be listing WYSIWYG/M editors built with scripting languages like JavaScript, AJAX and jQuery.

Project Management in Small/Medium Organization

Most of the organizations spends a large amount of money on project tracking and maintenance related software. But, with competition among various market players and emerging trend of open source made life easy for small organizations who cannot afford spending big bucks on buying licensed products.

In this post, I will be discussing various project management tools available on line. Most of them are free and others are available at nominal charges which can be easily afforded by small companies.

Optimize Web Page Load Time

One main reason that readers are not interested in your blog is slower loading of an article. Readers are often frustrated for waiting indefinite time to load contents also, search engine spiders consider your site as a low quality site.

In this post, I will be discussing various ways to speedup your site loading on client side.