Here's ten things every web developer should be aware of and avoid.

Fixed navbars – that stay at the top of the screen at all times – are common and useful, but sometimes annoying as they can block the top part of the page (sometimes obscuring page anchors).

In response to a request, I have made some improvements to the modified version of Mediademon's Simple jQuery Plugin To Create Pinterest Style Grid Layout - Pinterest Grid.

If you have an ASP.NET Web Forms page with multiple UpdatePanels and multiple UpdateProgress controls, sometimes you may want one or more UpdateProgress controls associated with a specific UpdatePanel, and one or more UpdateProgress controls that have no association with an UpdatePanel so are shown when any UpdatePanel is updated.

I still haven't given up on my belief that there is a place for a new programming language/environment where your application database logic are in a single system.

I recently needed to change a client's website to send emails using Amazon SES and encountered a few issues.

If you use Bootstrap 4 cards and apply one of the outline classes to add some colour you will find the header and footer are still grey, which doesn't look right.

What is WDIMPFS? A server with Windows, a DNS server, IIS, a Mail server, a control Panel of some sort, an FTP server and SQL Server.

This posts stems from my own curiosity. It's a question not a statement. I've been developing in ASP.NET for many years and I like it. I've dabbled a bit in PHP and there are some things I like and some I don't like, but maybe I haven't immersed myself in it enough to know what's great about it.

Lately I've been looking at options for hosting various Classic ASP and ASP.NET websites that I am responsible for. Some are hosted on VPS and some are on shared hosting plans with various providers. I'm looking at Microsoft Azure Pack hosting from Gearhost, Everleap and Applied Innovations.