16. November 2008 21:24 by Janko in Articles | tags:

Contact form

Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message?

Contact form is often the only way you can communicate with someone. People just don't like to expose their email addresses just like that. But having a contact form means that it might fail at some point. Your SMTP server could be down or your application could just stop working. It happened so many times.

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11. November 2008 10:45 by Janko in Articles | tags:

After 8 months of being live, JankoAtWarpSpeed just got a new suit. Like everything else in life, blogs also has to be refreshed from time to time. Not only that, at one point of time one design just don't serve the purpose anymore. That's what happened to my old design. The layout, post rendering, comments, and many other elements just become unusable.

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7. November 2008 09:40 by Janko in Articles | tags: , ,

You know how it goes. Designer creates the design templates or whatever and then developers have their say. Sometimes, it happens that they mess up something. Among many design issues caused by developers, one in particular really drives me me nuts - incorrect usage of <br/> element. I often find that <br/> element is being used to create layout. And this is simply - incorrect.

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4. November 2008 22:59 by Janko in Articles | tags:

About the author: Eva Vesper is a writer and social media lover for Web Hosting Search. WHS is a hosting review guide on everything from cheap hosting (who doesn't love cheap!) to dedicated hosting and VPS (going high end!). Find her on twitter or say hi on the blogs at WHS.

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The ways to build and design a website are often thought to be both many and fairly uncomplicated. On the contrary, building a great website should follow a few simple rules. What it comes down to it, it is a vital and irrevocable component: Systematically Planned Web Design. In order to create a well-designed, audience optimized, IE6 prepared website, here are 3 questions we suggest you answer.

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27. October 2008 10:32 by Janko in Articles | tags:

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Flag icons are pretty (like fam-fam-fam icon set). But flag represents a country, not a language. Isn't it obvious? No, it's obviously not! While I surfed the web yesterday I found several websites that use flags for language choice. Here are a few reasons why you'll never want to do that.

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