FredFredrickson

As I mentioned once before, I am coding a website. A social networking website that has a few twists to it (not a myspace clone), and ultimately has a very targeted audience.

As I mentioned before I will be documenting my adventure on this blog- going over techniques that I use while developing this site, and providing insight to anybody who may not be familiar with actually coding an entire site from start to finish.

To those who are already avid programmers- you can...

There's usually a billion ways to accomplish just about any task in any programming scenerio, but usually only a few that are considered to be of "Best Practice."

The reasons to follow best practices instead of just make-it-work practices are plenty: security, efficiency, and speed. Repeat these words to yourself (in a quail-man style) as you approach your latest foe: A Login System.

Ultimately, to program a login system, you need to inevitably trust the client...

An interesting concept that drives many websites in the *ehem* professional photography world, is the idea of selling access to your content. This concept, of course, can be applied to any type of media, but today's example will be applied to images.

A typical application of this technique would be in selling photos on a website. (Say, stock photography, maybe?) Here are some challenges we face:

• Images should be downloadable, ONLY after payment
• Images should not be sharable
• Full

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Although my original hope was to publish tech hints and tips- I'm thinking to myself, what really needs to be addressed? Poor web design.

Now, I know most people here just love me so much that they regularly visit my website (fredrickville.com )and I know that everybody has already read this (Top 10 things I hate about your website: Fredrickville.com)...

But today I'm going to focus on just one site. This will be my example of a horrible design #1. I'm sure I'll have...

I've decided that I'm going to give tech updates via BLARG.. ehem.. BLOG. If you care to read my take on things, I suggest you click that little RSS feed thing on the side there, and join as I bring the technology community to it's knees with my stinging observations that even Bruce Schneider would be proud of. Or something.

Today's Lesson: Caching Images

What the heck does this mean?

The art of caching images is a particularly old art, going way back...