YouTube’s speed  testing site  gives a good estimate of how fast videos can play on a computer. Video streaming servers often have their bandwidth limited for a particular connection to 140% of the highest needed bandwidth for the video to play, so it’s normal for a video to not fill up its buffer as fast [...]

Flex 3 or Flash doesn’t natively support using a color gradient as the color for text. Instead, you need to create a gradient bitmap and use a bitmap of the text as a mask against the gradient. Here’s a quick function that does this, using the GradientCanvas class from Nick Schneble’s blog.  To use the [...]

Let’s have first web testing checklist. 1) Functionality Testing 2) Usability testing 3) Interface testing 4) Compatibility testing 5) Performance testing 6) Security testing 1) Functionality Testing: Test for – all the links in web pages, database connection, forms used in the web pages for submitting or getting information from user, Cookie testing. Check all [...]

Make sure your site is browser compatible. Your web site should look good in Netscape as well as in Internet Explorer. Don’t stop designing your site as soon as you find that it looks great on IE. Usually Netscape gives some problems, especially when you try doing complicated HTML designs. But don’t give up too [...]