Tutorials – Powerusers

September 2, 2019

How to Create Web Service in PHP

There are two types of web service which are used, SOAP and REST.
SOAP is Simple Object Access Protocol. These webservices are XML-based and communicate over HTTP protocol. These are platform independent webservice, so the programmer need not have to worry about the programming language.
RESTful (Representation State Transfer) webservices are easy to manage and highly scalable web services. These are also platform independent webservices but it supports various data formats like text, json, xml, html.
Today we are going to create simple RESTful webservice in PHP to create new user and get existing user details.
We will be using WAMP server for our developments.

June 26, 2012

How to Build a Successful Website Part 5: Usability

In very basic terms, usability means that users can navigate and understand your site, its layout and features easily. There are plenty of complex disciplines that go along with this, but at the end of the day all usability tests ensure that users “get” the website they’re viewing. Few designers ever get this right the […]

June 20, 2012

How to Build a Successful Website Part 4: Optimize

Site optimization is a crucial discipline for any web designer who wants to stay competitive. In a nutshell, optimization is the practice of using all of a site’s resources to ensure the entire site operates at a high level of functionality for its users. This also includes search engine optimization (SEO), which basically means a […]

June 13, 2012

How to Build a Successful Website Part 3: Design and Development

Now that we’ve covered the basics of website planning and hosting selection, it’s time to take a look at the design and development portion of the site. This is where a designer uses all the information technology resources available to him to create a site that’s both eye grabbing and high functioning for every user […]

June 11, 2012

How to Build a Successful Website Part 2: Finding a Home

For many beginning Web designers, the importance of quality hosting is often overlooked, primarily because the world of hosting can seem intimidating at first. Hosting plans come in all shapes and sizes to fit the needs of sites with a wide range of hosting requirements. The problem is many novice designers may not be sure […]

June 7, 2012

How to Build a Successful Website Part 1: Planning and Preparation

Most successful businesses in today’s market have a website to help connect them to their customers. Once you’ve made the decision to create an online presence, it’s wise to formulate a plan regarding the creation of the site itself. It’s best to begin by coming up with solid ideas for the foundation of your site, […]

February 5, 2012

Learning JSP (Part 1) – Introduction

Hello everyone! We are starting a new series for exploring well popular server side technology called ‘JSP’ (Java Server Pages). We will focus on learning this technology from very basic. Today we will be covering following topics: What is JSP? How does it looks like? Where can we use it? Things required to get started.

March 14, 2011

Create Simple Random Color Generator using JavaScript

Hello everyone! I am writing a post after long time since I was busy in 12 hours a day tight schedule for almost Six months. Although the experience was very awesome. So today, we are going to create a very simple Random Color Generator using JavaScript. Some of you guys might think it as very […]

July 25, 2010

How to Create Coda Slider in Minutes

Slideshow is great way of displaying contents to your readers. And the use of jQuery in creating these awesome sliders or slideshows is easy to implement and modify. Today in this tutorial we are going to create very easy Slider using Coda javascript library. So before going to the first step you can view the […]

May 15, 2010

Create Simple Navigation using CSS3 Styling

HTML5 and CSS3 are considered as the future of the web. Now you can make your website the way you want using just HTML and CSS. You can use Shadows to text, box, use of gradients, simple animations, embedding Videos and much more. HTML5 and CSS3 have just changed the way; web developers look at […]