Kevin L. Amato a.k.a narga | NARGA.NET Founder

Rounding Up the Most Promising Free WYSIWYG and Markup Editor

March 2, 2018June 13, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, slide presentation or even the lighting for a theatrical event.

WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document is being created. In general WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands. The actual meaning depends on the user’s perspective, e.g

Most of the available Content Management System and other publishing platform in the web are using WYSIWYG editor for easy page editing. So I will rounding up to you the most promising Javascript WYSIWYG editor in the web.

10+ Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

October 25, 2016April 26, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Just imagine, then, the all-consuming sorrow of losing weeks, months or even years of blog posts or other site content. Your hosting company may provide a responsible backup service (or you may have a well-considered system in place if your site is self-hosted) but some extra insurance can be crucial if the unexpected happens (as it did for one of our client sites today).
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. Backup is vital but it needs to be painless otherwise people just do it less often (which defeats the purpose, your backup should not really be older than a couple of days ago).

The ways which I’ve ever tried, an ideal backup procedure should be simple, heavily automated and give quick recovery option for almost any problem. Your backup must be up-to-date and it’s can store on your computer, another hosting server, another online storage service ….
Choosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you which has listed below

CSS Sprites – Techniques, Tutorials And Tools | The Good and The Bad

August 4, 2017April 12, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Sprites were originally invented as a method of quickly compositing several images together in two-dimensional video games using special hardware. As computer performance improved, this optimization became unnecessary and the term evolved to refer specifically to the two-dimensional images themselves that were integrated into a scene.

Sprites were displayed over a static or dynamic background image, and the positioning of the sprite was controlled simply by the hardware controllers.
Apply Video games images render techniques above to Web development then we have CSS Sprites. In fact, CSS Sprites are not new, in some situation they can bring significant advantages and improvements – particularly if you want to reduce your server load.

CSS sprites is the technique of combing images to lessen the number of calls that need to be made to the server. Then you just shift the position of the background image to view the correct part of the image. May sound complicated, but it just takes a little math.

Making Awesome Form’s Inline Labels with jQuery

September 11, 2016April 5, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Have you ever visit Apple’s MobileMe website? The login screen has form labels that are written within the value of their associated input field.

Inline labels are nothing new – in fact the easiest way to label a field is to simply set the field value up front and blow it away when the field gains focus. This is handy way for designers to save space and make their designs cleaner all-around. Unfortunately for us developers, simply setting the input value isn’t very semantic or usable then you can’t do it simple. I’ve just use a little jQuery to make it all happen.

Improve Your Page Performance With jQuery Lazy Loader

July 26, 2016March 29, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. Using lazy load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load. Lazyloader inspired by YUI ImageLoaderUtility by Matt Mlinac.

Lazy loading is a design pattern commonly used in computer programming to defer initialization of an object until the point at which it needed. It can give to efficiency in the program’s operation if properly and appropriately used.

Simple and Lightweight but Powerful CMS Solutions

13 Simple & Lightweight but Powerful & Free CMS Solutions

February 4, 2017March 22, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

CMS or Content Management Systems is a very efficient tool to keep up and manage websites and the content thereof. But how well a CMS caters to your requirements depends a great deal on your choice of the same. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For simple sites, lots of bells and whistles can be overkill and actually be a bit confusing for the person maintaining the website.

In this article, you’ll find 10+ Simple and Lightweight but Powerful and Free Content Management Systems that may not garner as much attention as their more popular counterparts – but should.

Input vs Button – Which to use?

March 18, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

While working on form design, I encountered some issues when using images as submit buttons. The input with the type=”submit” is either too ugly (Firefox), a little buggy (Internet Explorer) or completely inflexible (Safari). The solution for most is to use image inputs and create the damn things ourselves.
View this example:

Highlighting Author Comments in Wordpress

How to Highlight Author Comments in WordPress using CSS

January 12, 2019March 15, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Many blogs highlight the author’s comment in the comments section. I’m talking about how to highlight comments posted by the author of the article. You can use many plugins to get this effect (For eg., the Highlight Author Comments Plugin) – but you don’t have to. You can get the get the same effect by adding a small bit of CSS code to your theme.

Most snippets will target and try to find author’s email or user id, but that actually slows your site down. Why not using CSS selector and find author’s comment and change the background color so it is easily pointed out. Pretty smart. After that, it was a simple matter of times to see the result.

45+ Most Popular Social Bookmarking Link Codes for WordPress

December 16, 2014March 8, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. With Social Bookmark websites, users can save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Your visitors can now bookmark and submit your websites to all their favorite social bookmark services with the ease of a single click.
So how can we encourage more people to share our links? One of the easiest options is to include a set of links at the bottom of your posts which readers can click to automatically vote for your article.

In this post, I’ve written the WordPress codes for 45+ of the most popular social bookmarking and networking sites out there.

15+ promising jQuery Lightbox-Clones plugins

March 2, 2018March 2, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Lightbox, and the newer Lightbox 2, is a JavaScript application used to display large images using modal dialogs. On a Lightbox-enabled page, a user can click an image to have it magnified in a Lightbox window, which resizes itself according to the size of the image using a gliding animation. Lightbox determines which images will be shown in the modal window through the XHTML “rel” attribute, which is used on an <a> element wrapped around the <img alt="" /> element. Lightbox also provides a way to attach captions to images and to run a slide show, which can be navigated using the arrow keys.

The script has gained widespread popularity due to its simple yet elegant style and easy implementation. While it was initially developed from scratch, Lightbox has since been modified to use a number of JavaScript libraries (such as the Prototype Javascript Framework and jQuery for its animations and positioning), to reduce the size of the code. The release of Lightbox encouraged other developers to work on similar projects, resulting in products such as 15+ Promising jQuery Lightbox plugins.

How to Open All External Links in a New Window/Tabs by using jquery

January 21, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Do you ever know the way to open an external link in a new windows or tabs is one of The Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 1999?

Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management).
Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user’s machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites.

I discovered right away is that the <a> tag does not allow the target attribute in XHTML Strict (nor does it in HTML Strict).

However, the behavior of <a target="_blank"'> can be replicated in XHTML Strict with semantic markup and scripting.

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