Category: Web Development

The Power of Rate Limiting: Enhancing Website Traffic and Performance

In the fast-paced digital landscape, where website traffic and user interactions are at an all-time high, ensuring optimal performance and security has become a critical concern for website administrators. One effective technique that can significantly improve both website traffic management and performance is rate limiting. Rate limiting is a method that controls the number of…
How do I reset all form fields using pure JavaScript?

It doesn’t matter why you might want to add a reset form button for your users. It could be that the form has conditional logic, is super long, complex, or that it has form fields that are prone to user error. We will look at a straightforward way to add a form button to reset…
How do I create a simple news ticker using HTML and CSS?

Alright, so you need some text, links, or images to scroll across your website from left to right. Some folks call this a “news ticker”, some call it a “text scroller” — we will stick with news ticker for the sake of keeping our references simple. Sure, you can make this happen with JavaScript but why complicate…
How do I make a textarea form field match an input form field?

Have you ever wondered why the default font for a form textarea field is different when using a placeholder? The default fonts for all web forms are usually determined by the browser used, and technically, it is up to us to define what fonts or styles to display via our CSS. Here is how you…
How to show or hide page elements on a mobile device using CSS?

When applying CSS to your HTML, there are many times you specifically want to show or hide an element on the screen when being viewed on a mobile device. This little CSS code snippet can come in handy when trying to have max control of your page elements in a responsive setting. In your CSS…
How do I create a custom cPanel login form?

So, have you ever wanted create your own custom cPanel or Webmail login form? We sure have, and since cPanel shares the same login interface for both Webmail and cPanel, we can easily use some clever PHP paired with a customizable HTML form to get the job done. Why Create A Custom cPanel & Webmail…
Is web development a stressful career?

Working in the web development space can be very rewarding, though, can also be very stressful — let’s not forget, throw you into the realm of self-isolation. Trust me. Assuming you are passionate about what you are doing, there is nothing better than listening to some killer music and getting lost in your development production.…
How do I send an HTML form to an email address using PHP?

You have coded up your HTML form, styled it, and looks great on your website. Now, you want to receive an email when a user fills out your form that contains the user-submitted form contents. There are many advanced ways to process an HTML form using PHP, but in this answer, simple is the name…
How do you send user-entered line breaks from a form textarea to an email?

In case you haven’t noticed, with most PHP form processors, if a user fills out a textarea within your form using paragraphs or line breaks, the formatting of the paragraphs and line breaks are stripped away from your delivered e-mail contents. In this example, we will use the PHP nl2br() function to fix this, displaying…
How do I create a Twitter share button with my website URL?

So you want to add a link or button to share your current page URL or a static link to Twitter? Of course, Twitter provides a few resources for this, which are ugly, to say the least; there are also third-party services available such as AddThis. If you are using WordPress, there are loads of…