Boris Gordon

Web scraping is a technique of web development where you load a web page and "scrape" the data off the page to be used elsewhere. It's not pretty, but sometimes scraping is the only way to access data or content from a web site that doesn't provide RSS or an open API. - Boris Gordon

If you don’t already know, endless scroll (or infinite scrolling) is a popular technique among web 2.0 sites such as Google Reader and Live Image Search, where instead of paging through items using the traditional pagination technique, the page just keeps loading with new items attached to the end. - Boris Gordon

The CSS box model lies behind everything you do in CSS. Every element is defined by a rectangular box that encloses that element. Understanding how the box model works is a key to understanding CSS and having greater control over your layout and presentation. Let’s dive right in and talk about what the CSS box model is, how one box affects the boxes around it, and some common browser issues when displaying CSS boxes. - Boris Gordon

Love them or hate them, horizontally scrolling websites are scattered around the net, and there’s some fantastic examples. Unlike the traditional layout of a website that scrolls up and down, horizontal websites flip things around and scroll from left to right. Sometimes they’re enhanced with Javascript to offer an even richer user experience, such as auto-scrolling effects. Check out this collection of 30 inspiring examples, and follow on to a hand full of brilliant tutorials that give an insight into the theory and practice of creating a horizontal site of your own. - Boris Gordon

Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits. Please send feedback. The final manuscript will be published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Pre-order the printed Work and be the first in your Community to receive it. The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License. - Boris Gordon

I can’t help but view source on every nice looking website I see. It’s like if you had x-ray glasses that allowed you to see any person you ever saw in their underwear at will. How could you not? It’s just so tempting to see if a beautiful website is built with beautiful code as well, or if its beauty if only skin-deep. Code? Beautiful? Sure. After all, Code is Poetry. This is just HTML, so it can’t be quite as intricate and elegant as a dynamic language, but it still bears the brush strokes of its creator. - Boris Gordon

The basic idea for this site was one that would allow administrators to upload videos, generate playlists from them, and provide an easy way for other people to embed these playlists in other webistes. The brief project went a little like this: - Boris Gordon

CSS backgrounds are an important part of web design. The property is where you add the colors and images that sit behind your content, which controls much of the aesthetics of your site. Remove your CSS backgrounds and your site will probably be text on a white background. - Boris Gordon

Azbuka is CSS Typographical Base Rendering Library. It’s meant to make meaningful web typography based on the golden proportion. - Boris Gordon

Today marks the beginning of a brand new series that will show you EXACTLY how to get started with PHP. Just as with the “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” series, we’ll start from scratch and slowly work our way up to some more advanced topics. I hope you enjoy it. As always – feel free to make requests via the comments form. - Boris Gordon

So everywhere you look, you see “jQuery this” and “jQuery that”. For the last year or so, this library has been the darling of the Javascript world. But do you feel that you just can’t seem to learn the dang thing? Do you hate how the existing tutorials assume that you know WAY more than you actually do? If this rings true for you, I can help. - Boris Gordon

The main idea behind grid-based designs is a solid visual and structural balance of web-sites you can create with them. Sophisticated layout structures offer more flexibility and enhance the visual experience of visitors. In fact, users can easier follow the consistency of the page, while developers can update the layout in a well thought-out, consistent way. However, it’s quite hard to find your way through all the theory behind grid systems: it isn’t easy at all. Some important notions and related key-facts can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. - Boris Gordon

Web Application Testing in Ruby - Boris Gordon

The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls. - Boris Gordon

Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, and even scrolling content panels (with the help of Javascript). These features can help developers build new sites and applications as well as integrate new content into existing applications. - Boris Gordon

Web-design has evolved greatly in the past couple years, thanks to all the great CSS tutorials out there. Of course now that browsers like Safari/webkit and Firefox/moz support some CSS3 properties, we’re seeing more and more designers use those newer techniques. Today I’d like to share with you some great CSS (and CSS3) tips, techniques and tutorials. - Boris Gordon

Web-design has evolved greatly in the past couple years, thanks to all the great CSS tutorials out there. Of course now that browsers like Safari/webkit and Firefox/moz support some CSS3 properties, we’re seeing more and more designers use those newer techniques. Today I’d like to share with you some great CSS (and CSS3) tips, techniques and tutorials. - Boris Gordon

In this article we have selected of few useful tools for web designers hoping to come to your help. The selection includes color tools, css tools and editors. Feel free to add some more in our comment section and enjoy! - Boris Gordon

In this article we have selected of few useful tools for web designers hoping to come to your help. The selection includes color tools, css tools and editors. Feel free to add some more in our comment section and enjoy! - Boris Gordon

CSS as language giving many advantages even working in table based design or table-less designs, most of the time our designed pages can easily change after replace a css file with another one. When we working on latest trends, Tab Navigation has been one of the essential element in any contemporary web layout. In order to make sure visitors can properly navigate through the website through our used techniques, here in listed CSS stuff we offering some best and most useful Cascade style sheets with source files which can help for more inspiring developments. - Boris Gordon

CSS as language giving many advantages even working in table based design or table-less designs, most of the time our designed pages can easily change after replace a css file with another one. When we working on latest trends, Tab Navigation has been one of the essential element in any contemporary web layout. In order to make sure visitors can properly navigate through the website... more... - Boris Gordon

Douglas Crockford. John Resig. Peter-Paul Koch. Nicolas C. Zakas. If you recognize these names, you probably know what they all have in common: they're amazingly talented JavaScript Developers. Today, you'll hear from all of them, in this roundup of JavaScript presentations. Be ready to stretch your brain! - Boris Gordon

Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies - Boris Gordon