Have you ever wondered why some web pages include a 1×1 GIF image? Well, they’re calledweb bugs, and they track you.
Category Archives: Programming
Creating a Beacon Image
Until recently I was stuck with trying to get a script to return a 1 x 1 (sized) gif image back to the user’s browser. The 1×1 pixel gif image returned by most scripts is popularly known as a beacon image. It’s used extensively by most scripts as a means to verify or log views …
5 mobile menu plugins for jquery
Creating menus for mobile users gives webdesigners a unique challenge, which can be dealt with in very different ways. One of the quickest ways is to use a jquery plugin, now if you are not loading jquery as part of your site already this might be overkill just to use it for a menu. But …
Gumby 2
Syntactically Awesome Gumby 2 is built with the power of Sass. Sass is a powerful CSS preprocessor which allows us to develop Gumby itself with much more speed — and gives you new tools to quickly customize and build on top of the Gumby Framework.
15 Even More Responsive Frameworks
This is part 3 in in our ongoing series of posts highlighting the latest responsive web frameworks. And yes, today we have 15 even more frameworks for you to consider.
How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate
The following is an extremely simplified view of how SSL is implemented and what part the certificate plays in the entire process.