Contact form is deadly essential for any website, as it acts as a messenger which passes the opinion or enquiries of visitors to webmaster. There have been countless contact forms on the web but unfortunately most of them do not explain to you the inner working parts, so here comes a detailed tutorial to teach you to build an advanced contact form from scratch based on the pop technology, HTML5 and CSS3.
Considering the nature of a web-based e-mail contact form we are also required to dive into two separate application fields, which is the PHP backend code for sending email and jQuery functions for rich user interface. By the end we will be left with a fully dynamic and functional contact form written with later customization in mind.
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Ramadan is a month of blessings and prayers. In this month, Muslims from all around the world fast in the daytime. All kinds of food and drinks are forbidden from dawn to dusk, or daytime. It is a month of kindness which ends with one of the biggest festivals in Muslim calendar, the Eid-Ul-Fitr. The day starts with a meal which has to be eaten before dawn. After that, one cannot eat until late dusk after the sun has set. This time is called Iftaar and people usually eat date palms and Kheer at this time. Kheer is a kind of sweet dish with main ingredients of rice, sugar, milk and dry-fruits.
Ramadan is actually the name of ninth month of Islamic calender. This month last 29 or 30 days depending on the appearance of moon at the end of the month. In this month, Muslims pray more than usual and refrain from all kinds of sins. People go out of their way to be kind to poor and helpless ones. Most of the financially well-off people love to spend the month in Mecca, the holy city of Muslims in Arab. The scene around and in the mosques is really fascinating in this month. As the celebration of Eid-Ul-Fitr are near, we thought of collecting some great Ramadan Wallpapers as a token of appreciation for our Muslim readers. At Hongkiat.com, we would like to wish our readers an early Eid-Mubarak.
For those of you who are celebrating this festive season, we’ve compiled and showcase you some beautiful Ramadan wallpapers that will compliment your desktop and workstation. Some of these wallpapers contain words from the Holy Qu’ran and others show mosques that are popular among Muslim community and others alike.
We hope you like them and some of them go along with your taste and end up as your wallpaper for this holy month of Ramadan.
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It used to be the case that a job is something that workers exchange their labor in return for money that’ll put food into their mouth. In the present time though, more and more people are looking beyond the fulfillment of their financial needs to satisfy other important aspects of their lives, such as health, friendship and achievement.
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The truth is that while some of the workers can achieve their important needs while doing the work, some may rather failed miserably in pursuing their ideal life. In this case, the best solution is to consider to quit the current job that only feeds you with food and sadness. There will be several things to consider before you make this hard decision, and we will discuss them in this article. Full detail after jump.
Also, in the event that you decide to leave your job, do refer to my earlier entry – “7 Great Ways to Get Your Resume Noticed” to help you get that dream job of yours!
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The evolution of online feedback and commenting has come a long way; from the old school guestbook to forum and feedback form, and from native platform-dependent commenting systems to today’s 3rd party commenting systems that work cross-platform regardless of what programming language or scripts your site is based on.
These 3rd party commenting systems do more than just allowing visitors and readers to drop comments. Most of them support comprehensive comment managing backend, spam control, blacklist/ whitelist management, integration with social media, theme customization and much more.
Today, I’m going to bring to your awareness three of the most commonly used (by bloggers and site owners) 3rd party commenting and discussion systems, respectively Disqus, IntenseDebate and LiveFyre. I’ll also discuss some of their key features, what I like and what I think they may lack of. Lastly, at the end of each, I have also thrown in a couple of useful links for your reference.
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Good to see you again! So you’re the one who dropped a comment in our previous contest, LogoBee Custom Logo Designs Contest, huh? Well that’s great, as today you might be the lucky one who will hug away the juicy logo design package from LogoBee! Let’s check out if you’re the chosen one for this golden prize!
As we’ve promised before, the 2 chosen winner will be hugging away a LogoBee’s golden logo design package with lots of client-friendly advantages (like you can have up to 16 design samples!), worth a total $329!
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If content is king, design should be the queen. It’s a deadly crucial element to a website’s success, as it decides how content is to be structured and displayed, and bad design simply ruins the user experience, thus dooming the site traffic.
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Often we web designer has to play trading game while we’re designing a website. We either trade beauty for functionality, or functionality for readability, as it’s impossible to produce a design that pleases everyone in every aspect.
So which design is better then? Web designers love to ask this question, and some even challenged themselves to play the trading game better by redesign famous sites such as Facebook and YouTube, thus forming potential designs in this showcase post. Better or worse, you as an user decides it, enjoy!
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To continue our grateful thanks to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release yet another free quality icon pack: 28 toolbar icons. These icons come in PNG format in 2 different sizes 32×32 and 16×16 pixels along with layered Photoshop PSD file of the icons.
![toolbar iconset [Freebie] 28 Toolbar Icons (PSD included)](http://media02.hongkiat.com/toolbar-icons/toolbar-iconset.jpg "[Freebie] 28 Toolbar Icons (PSD included)")
These icons are designed by GraphicsFuel.com exclusively for Hongkiat readers, and are delivered in both Photoshop and PNG formats.
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Facebook has changed all of our lives. Whether you’ve ever had an account or even visited the website, it’s difficult to ignore the hundreds of Facebook’s “Like” and “Share” badges seen all around the modern web. The blogosphere is constantly buzzing with comments and shares over Facebook.
Knowing the popularity of Facebook, it’s commonplace to create a fan page for any community or website launch. This provides an outlet for your fans to get together in one place to share ideas, photos, questions, and reviews. This type of marketing works in any corporate or personal situation, thus it’s perfect for businesses and events.
In this particular post, I’ll be going into a few useful tips to put together an amazing fan page. This will help your website, community, or product sales garner a lot of attention! After all, Facebook is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on the Internet. Why wouldn’t you want your brand spread all over there?
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If you are running a WordPress-powered website, its security should be your primary concern. In
most cases, WordPress blogs are compromised because their core files and/or plugin are outdated;
outdated files are traceable and it’s an open invitation to hackers.
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How to keep you blog away from the bad guys for good? For starters, make sure you are always updated with the latest version of WordPress. But there’s more. In today’s post, I’ll like to share with you some useful plugins as well as some tips to harden your WordPress security.
Full list after jump!
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The addition of a social media toolbar to your website can provide a wonderful user experience and large marketing exposure. The connection between your visitors can be tightened up as they will be able to share news directly with each other. The social media revolution has taken a sharp turn for the best with these fantastic new toolbar software packages.
Both easy to implement and customize, a social media toolbar is the perfect way to garner more attention and page views from your users. If you already run a powerful social media marketing campaign then chances are good you have a personal Facebook and Twitter account. Likewise your visitors will be eager to check these out and share your content.
I have gone in-depth with three of the most popular web toolbars on the net. These all include standard share links with profile information and possible customizations. Ultimately the choice is yours for which software would work best on your website.
Spend a bit of time playing around with them and see if you can find one you like best!
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Double Exposure, or Multiple Exposure, is a photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image. The technique has been practiced for several years, and it became particularly famous recently, due to the fact that graphic editor like Photoshop can help to create the identical effect.
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With double exposure technique, you can create certain effect like ghost image, mirror image, or simply merging a bright moon into the dark, lonely sky. The reason of using this technique varies, but they are surely created for same purposes – beauty and uniqueness.
Sounds theoretical? Alright, check out these 50+ photographs and tutorials below to see what double exposure is really capable of. Some of them are even more beautiful than their original form, and some of them are even incredible that might trick you to think there are manipulation works! You heard about two are better than one, and now your eyes will witness the teaching.
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Hola! Greetings everyone, today we have a great news for you, the giveaway is back! This time we will be giving away 2x golden logo design package (you can have up to 16 design samples!) from LogoBee, a professional logo design company, and it’s noteworthy that the package is worth $329!
Fruitful detail after jump!
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Digital text can be formatted in so many flavors. With the further advancement of web fonts and browser scripts, we have seen new project code for developers to utilize. Web designers, too, are looking for the best strategy to code their websites and build a uniform typographic style between all of their pages.
Plenty of professional web designers have written on the topic including updated features and services. You have to consider each web page as a singular document breaking off your root layout design. Under this view it’s easy to see how typography can flow from page-to-page and offer a unique outlet for creativity. And this becomes especially apparent building unique classes for your paragraphs and headings.
Below I’ll be going into some fantastic ideas for aspiring typography designers interested in building for the web. Blogs, social networks, and businesses are always looking to update their current website. And CSS styles for web typography provide an excellent source to begin refreshing your pages.
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If you make funds transfer or payment via Internet, you should be familiar with the name PayPal. PayPal is one of the safest and most convenient ways to perform monetary transaction online. But that being said, there are still a lot of users who have problems and questions using PayPal on a daily basis.
It is important to understand how PayPal works; a person who knows how the service works will get their transactions done quickly and safely, but if you don’t, you may end up losing unnecessary transaction fees or facing unforeseen difficulties that requires the attention of PayPal Support.
If you have trouble understanding some issues about PayPal, we hope this will help you clear some clouds. Here’s 10 most asked questions about PayPal together with solutions and some useful links.
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