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Increase your online security – Tips & Tricks for a better Passwords
0Creating strong passwords is key to your online security. Since the computers trying to hack passwords are getting more powerful everyday, passwords you are using could be the weakest link you are using.
Password cracking tools use one of the following approaches:
- Guessing – using personal information (ex: using date of birth, phone number as password)
- Dictionary Attacks – using single words found in dictionaries as password
- Bruce Force Attack – trying every possible password
A brute force attack will always be successful if there is no limit to the number of attempts. In order to delay a brute force attack, a strong password should be chosen.
Guide to Strong Passwords:
A strong password should:
- Contain 8 or more characters
- Combine letters, numbers and symbols
- Be easy to remember, but should not contain any easy to guess personal information
You should:
- avoid sequences (ex: abcdef)
.NET Style String Formatting with jQuery – Javascript Function to Support Token Replacement within a String
0Here is a quick jQuery Plugin Announcement:
String concatenation and formatting are common aspects of almost every development effort. However, the combination of single and double quotes, along with escape characters, text, and plus signs (+) can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to remember. The .NET Framework provides a much cleaner approach with the String class’s Format method. It allows you to create string values by specifying insertion points for other values as well as special formatting.
String.Format(“Hello {0}”, “world”);
The string formatting approach described above can now be used with Javascript using a jQuery Plugin: .NET STYLE STRING FORMATTING – a simple and clever function to support token replacement within a string.
Given a string like “Hello, {0}” and calling the format function with a single argument like “world”.
var result = $.format(“Hello, {0}”, “world”);
The result variable will be set to “Hello, world”.
The function will support More >
Display Sitemap from HTML Unordered List without Javascript | Slick Map CSS
0Since creating better looking sitemaps is quite time consuming, we usually end up having text-based unordered lists that does not look like a sitemap. From now on, you can have a very beautiful and visual site map with nothing more than your standard unordered list and CSS. SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying sitemaps directly from HTML given as unordered list. It allows 3 levels of navigation and additional utility links for LOGIN, CONTACT, ADVERTISE links.
SlickMap CSS is cross-browser and can be customized easily. It enables automation of sitemap design by eliminating the need for additional software.
The way data is visualized by SlickMap CSS is impressive. The arrangment, grouping, and color coding of data makes it very easy to identify and find relevant data. Everything in SlickMap More >
Best of jQuery Image Gallery and Slideshow Plugins
0Image galleries and slideshows provide a good user experience and make viewing images more pleasant and intuitive on your website. With the advent of powerful JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, Prototype, Mootools etc., the quality of JavaScript based image galleries and slideshows have improved dramatically.
As these frameworks are getting popular day by day, more and more web developers are coming out with new and creative ideas every day. Here are 21 brilliant jQuery plugins which you can easily use to create an image gallery/slideshow for your website.
1. Spacegallery
Spacegallery displays your images with a nice 3D effect and it is also pretty easy to use and customize.
2. prettyPhoto
prettyPhoto might look like jQuery Lightbox clone but it supports videos, flash, YouTube videos, iFrames besides images. It also comes with useful API More >
Photoshop Beautiful web 2.0 Gradient Sets collection
0Surprisingly I did not acquisition abounding accessories featuring blush acclivity sites, blush generators and after admirable collections of gradients. There are big array of abounding blush generators, blush palettes and things like that, but not abounding absolutely focus on Photoshop gradients. I don’t apperceive that’s acceptable affair or bad, but I absolutely adulation gradients, abounding admirable websites and logos are created aloof by application blush variations in subtle, actual artistic way.
Best Web Design Directories To Improve Your Site SEO
0List of Web Design Directories Links from alcove directories are of added amount in SEO than appointment to accepted directories, and there are a cardinal of specialized directories accouterment alone for web designers. Below are some of those.
Awesome Collection of JavaScript for Web Designers
0I just found awesome collection for JavaScript from “WebDesignerWallâ€, really according to today’s trend JavaScript is must have enhancement of all web designers. Rather than the flash web designers can create flashy effects using low KB JavaScript and most useful thing it helps a lot in SEO if we use JavaScript for animation rather than Flash.
Here is that great list…