I am starting to build my own website using the Django framework. It has become apparent that in order to make quick progress I will have to use some form of external library to handle most of my HTML/CSS/Javascript, for example, https://materializecss.com
I have begun investigating different websites to see what works and what doesn't and I was wondering if there is a quick way to identify what UI library a particular website is using.
Chrome's 'inspect' tool doesn't really help me because I get lost with so much HTML.
For example, this website https://www.moneyunder30.com/category/banking apparently uses https://materializecss.com, is there a general place hidden deep in the HTML where I could look to find this information?
Thanks
There's a pretty cool Chrome extension called Wappalyzer
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I am Java developer before but now i am starting to work only on UI. I have little experience with UI. So I need a tool for Html 5.0, css 3.0, & angular Js.
Taking the comment above into account it is right for me to say the following answer is based on assumption but here we go:
I'm not quite sure what you mean by tools but if you mean a program to create your code in I would personally recommend Sublime text or Atom.
If you mean tools that are easily available to you to test and play around with your code then there are a number that are available to you, JSFiddle, Codepen and Liveweave are just a few.
I personally use Codepen as it has a nice and easy to use interface and I like the community around it, the homepage features a "picked" section which showcases user created content, it does however seem to have a heavy focus on "pretty" projects rather than functional ones. The editor it offers allows users to use a number of HTML, CSS and Javascript processors as well as use libraries such as Angular and JQuery. I created multiple angular projects using Codepen so I know it is capable of that and it is also really easy to implement it into a pen/project.
I hope this has answered the question but please remember that this is all my opinion each one of these things has their own strengths and weaknesses and overall the choice should be yours.
I'm trying to figure out how to program a website that looks very similar to http://www.renthop.com/.
I'm new to web coding, so I'm not really sure where to start. For example, is it Java or HTML? Or both? I really like how its setup, the responsiveness and smoothness of it. I just want to make sure I start off in the right direction in terms of choosing the right language etc.
If anyone has any idea of what this is based on it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks - KC
The server-side code is PHP, the front-end is built off of the jQuery and jQuery-UI javascript libraries and a series of third-party plugins. The final product is a dynamic HTML application.
Do you want to launch your website? If so, creating a website from HTML would only make a website on your local hard drive, not public. You're going to need a domain name and hosting to make it public.
HTML is a markup language for formatting websites, but you can still create a website out of it. Not public, as I said above.
CSS is rulesets for telling the browser how to display the HTML formatted content. It is also not a programming language in the same way HTML is, although it can be a lot more powerful.
Javascript is a programming language. You use it to make the website interactive. Get Firebug or a similar add-on for Firefox, or just right click and 'Inspect Element' in Chrome to see the javascript for more detail on what javascript does.
AJAX is an extension of javascript to get data from the web server and update the page with it, without having to refresh the page.
PHP is code commonly used server side to interact with the filesystem and databases and output HTML. You can also use python, perl, .NET and a handful of other languages/frameworks to do this.
MySQL is a database.
I'd like to use polymer.dart to build a set of portable web components that can be embedded in any random html page (including pages outside of any dart project). The idea is that a customer could embed my polymer.dart elements on his html pages without the customer needing to create a dart application. I would think this would be an obvious and straightforward thing to do - but after going through many tutorials and instructional pages, and reading through lots of dart/polymer.dart documentation, I haven't found any explanation of how to go about this. Presumably the dart/polymer code would have to be compiled to javascript for inclusion on the customer's html page. Could someone comment on if this is possible, and if so, provide an explanation with examples of how to go about it? This dart/polymer.dart newbie would be grateful for any assistance.
I don't think this will work with Dart.
You need to run pub build over a Dart application to get a deployable result.
I guess this would work better with JavaScript Polymer elements.
There are plans to support this scenario but I guess it will still take a while.
I'm new to the cloud IDE setup and can't get my head around deployment and "workspaces". I tried making a basic site with html (to use javascript/css once I can figure out how to call the code into the html) as testing before running it on another website.
At the moment I'm using a basic text editor to tweak the html (for a custom Google Map), but cloud9 and the like highlight code in colour and complete functions etc. so it's easier to use (also I can't use an offline editor due to hardware).
I'm keen to learn more javascript but really only have basic web html/css skills so all the node.js files lose me a bit. Where can I find a really simple introduction to just writing, say, a html page and seeing it previewed? Or does it not work like that?
The tutorials I've found so far are going into scripting (e.g. "Cloud 9 IDE Basics" > http://vimeo.com/16273901)
Thanks, and sorry for asking such a beginner's question!
Does the Cloud9 documentation site (https://docs.c9.io/) help?. It has articles ranging from the basics to more advanced topics, including some video tutorials.
Does anybody know of any pre-canned gadget/widget management framework (along the lines of iGoogle etc) that I would be able to use on an ASP.NET MVC site (presumably loading divs via jQuery etc)?
In particular, I'd rather not write all the selection / location code if there is something decent already available. (I would expect to write the actual widgets / content etc myself...)
I was waiting to see if you got an answer on this one as it's something I'm interested in too. As you haven't, I'll tell you what I know (it's probably not so useful but it might get you started...)
I've used something based on the ExtJS portal demo in a previous project - there are some license costs involved depending on the deployment scenario though, and besides, it turned out to be quite slow and cumbersome, and rather tricky to customise - the default for the ext toolset is for the ui to be built entirely from javascript, not from markup, and while it was possible to coerce it into working on top of existing markup, it seemed more difficult than it needed to be. That aside, it worked well in the end, and with the paid version the support is very good.
I've also implemented a widget / portal screen based on jquery-ui sortable which worked really well - the basic implementation was very quick and easy but writing the code to save and load portal settings took more time than I would have liked.
If I were doing a similar project now, I think I'd evaluate this instead - it looks ok from a cursory glance and it's open source - it's built with jquery-ui sortable, so the core should be solid enough, and the slightly uneven animations on the demo version should be easy to sort out assuming it uses the standard jquery-ui sortable options. It has functionality to load/save portal settings too by the looks of it, so it should mean less hand coding that side of things.
I have used Telerik RadDock in the past and found it to be pretty good. It renders in divs and is relatively easy to style.
It doesn't cost too much if you are using it commercially.
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/dock/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/inettuts/
This guy put together a great tutorial on implementing a iGoogle like drag/drop widget interface. Even links to a working example.