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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a cornerstone of the internet. It is the part that gives websites their final visual representation in the browsers. As a client-side technique, CSS rules can be viewed, modified, and disabled right inside the visitor’s browser.
This article describes the most useful techniques to deactivate webpage styles for testing and other purposes. Read more …
Browsers download and interpret multiple files to properly show a website. These files usually contain HTML elements to structure the webpage, and CSS code to visually display it inside the browser. In most cases, styles alongside other code snippets are embedded inside HTML pages and coupled with other elements.
We developed a practical guide with step-by-step instructions to view the CSS style for the whole website, a specific webpage, and a single element inside the page. Read more …
Many people think they are safe as long as they didn’t download anything from the internet. This is unfortunately NOT TRUE. Although most attacks start once the online user accidentally or unknowingly takes an action, some can secretly take place without the user’s knowledge or consent.
This article explains the most common threat that may happen when visiting unsecure or malicious websites. Read more …
Attackers are getting creative at deceiving online users, they pursue simple yet tricky tactics to spread infected links through multiple channels. If the user blindly clicked on a suspicious link, it might put the user’s data, personal information, devices, or financial records at high risk.
We developed a comprehensive guide of all tips, tricks, and best practices to assess the safety of web links. Read more …
HTTP is the primary instrument for navigating the internet, it manages the connection between web browsers and visited websites. HTTP protocol is based on a sequence of request-response messages, where the request holds our data and the response brings back the website content.
This article discusses the security concerns of HTTP protocol, how safe it is, and what are the threats of visiting HTTP websites. Read more …
Retrieving the most up-to-date information is quite important to find the best and most relevant answer to our search query. Some web pages make it clear when the page content was originally created or last updated. While the majority of the digital content on the internet is not timestamped.
We present in this article the most reliable and relatively simple ways that might help us check when a webpage was created or last updated. Read more …
Developing software programs usually involves dealing with many common and repetitive problems. These frequently encountered issues can be often found solved elsewhere by someone else. Copying and re-using others’ solutions could easily save hours and maybe days implementing the same solution over and over again.
We discuss why developers copy/paste code, when, and how often. We also check to what extent it is legal to copy code from common platforms. Read more …
A WordPress developer is an experienced programmer, whose work is concentrated on manipulating the WordPress platform to craft websites. Similarly, a web developer is a skilled programmer who can develop websites of different kinds using a variety of web frameworks and technologies.
We explore the difference between WordPress developers and web developers in terms of tasks, salaries, and relation to other job titles. Read more …
WordPress is certainly one of the most popular content management systems that run the web. Both normal users and programmers rely on it to build websites very efficiently.
We explore why web developers use WordPress, when they use it, and why they need to learn it for their careers. Read more …
Without any doubt, WordPress is one of the most powerful content management systems that dominate the web. Though, it is still a nightmare for some web developers who hate it for many reasons.
We discuss the most common aspects that (some) experienced web developers actually hate about WordPress. Regardless of whether they are using it or not. Read more …