There has been a lot of discussion on this topic: Back-End vs. Front-End. As a front end developer at Blueprint, who is trying to make the transition to back end, I realize that there are not a lot of good explanation on this topic. Lets start with front end. Front-End Front end development consists of visual presentation and interaction by...
Last week, I wrote about getting familiar with Drupal themes and how they are set up. This week’s post is going to be all about the .info files in Drupal themes. The .info files are a crucial part of Drupal themes. The .info file in a Drupal theme configures the theme. Let’s look at an example of what you might...
WordPress is a very popular content management system (CMS). It is now estimated that 17% of the websites online use WordPress. I am personally really passionate about WordPress theme development, so my CMS of choice would be WordPress. However, WordPress is not the only option when it comes to CMS. Some of the other major CMSs are Joomla and Drupal....
At Blueprint, I work on a variety of front-end development projects. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with 3DCart, an e-commerce software. Fellow Blueprint employees have written some reviews before on things such as Bing and the Adobe Creative Cloud, and I thought it would be a nice change to do one myself. This is my review of the...
There are two core elements in a website, your domain name and your hosting. In order to have a website “live” on the internet, you need both. Domain Registration A domain name (eclipsewebmedia.com) is how your website can be located, its an address, much like the physical address to your home or business (3700 Crestwood Parkway #320 Duluth GA, 30096)....
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 will be remembered as a sad day for the Internet. Yesterday, Google announced that they are no longer are going to use WebKit as their rendering engine for Chrome. WebKit is an open-source web browser engine that Apple originally developed for Safari. This versatile rendering-engine powers Apple’s iOS devices, but has also been incorporated into other...
Security while developing PHP-based web applications becomes extremely important when handling sensitive information or large amounts of data. When researching effective PHP security practices, I constantly came across suggestions and solutions that had loopholes hackers could bypass. One of the most important things to know about PHP security is not necessarily the best practices that will eliminate all vulnerability to...
There are always people who don’t care if their code is clean, for them what really matters is the code to work. But why you should bother to have or to clean your code? As a web developer at Blueprint I try to keep my code clean and simple because messy code is waste of time. There will be web...
