Posts Tagged ‘web development’

Hello Everyone,

As a Sr. Web Programmer here at Noam Design, I always look for ways to optimize the code I develop for efficiency. I primarily do back-end programming with PHP and MySQL. Today I am going to share with you some tips that I have personally encountered while programming with PHP. I hope these 15 tips will help you optimize your PHP code and get you into the habit of looking for alternative ways or patterns of writing robust code. Also don’t forget to document your code properly! Enjoy! (more…)

Here, at Noam Design, we are constantly contributing to the web design world community and we’ve often pioneered new practices and innovative concepts within the industry. What we call ‘Load Sequencing’ and ‘Content Flushing’ are two ways to tremendously enhance the user experience for websites and web applications that are rich in design and/or features. These concepts allow for the almost instantaneous fetching of web content to the user, while other elements of the website or web application are seamlessly loading.

What is it all about?

In today’s internet browsing experience, there is nothing more frustrating and outdated than waiting for a web page to load.  We believe that when you go to a website, you shouldn’t have to wait for the site’s content to load, but rather you should be able to view relevant content right away – or at least be entertained while the main content of the page is loading. In other words, some web content should be fetched to the user immediately. For simple, light weight websites, the question may not be as critical. But for websites and web applications that are rich in features and/or design, it’s of the utmost importance. Especially given that more than 80% of all internet use is spent on rich web applications! Web based emailing and chatting, social networking, and video browsing, etc are just a few examples. (more…)