Showing posts with label Web Developing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Developing. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2013

LESS - Dynamic Stylesheet Language

LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language meant to extend CSS with thing like variables, mixins, operations and functions. Please click here to find out more about LESS.

Why not Plain CSS?

I don't know which one is better LESS or the plain CSS. However, for now LESS is really comes down to customization and reuse of the code. But the question is raise in my mind that with the LESS, browser need to interpret and compile the LESS CSS class every times and which may decrease web page performance. So why LESS??

Please let me know your suggestion in comment and correct me if I misunderstood about LESS. It's really confuse me that what to choose LESS CSS or normal plain CSS. 

Friday, December 7, 2012

Turn Your PC into Web Server


I am looking to host a website on internet without buying any web hosting service. I want to host my website on my own PC and it will be accessible through internet from any where. After some googling I found that The Opera web browser includes a unique and useful feature called Opera Unite that turns your computer into a web server with a simple click. You may wonder why would anyone want to do that but turns out that there are some practical use cases here.
For instance, you can share the Pictures folder on your computer through Unite and it can then be accessed from the browser of any other computer as a standard web address. You can even host a website on your computer without going though a web host.

Get Opera Unite in the new Opera

Opera Unite is a useful service but unfortunately, it is no longer enabled in Opera v12.0 and later.  If you would however like to use the service in the newer releases of Opera browser, there’s an easy workaround:
Step 1: Download and install Opera 11 on your computer. I couldn’t find the installer on the official Opera website but there’s one available on Filehippo.com for Windows.
Step 2: Launch the Opera program and click the Unite icon in the browser’s status bar. Turn on Opera Unite and also enable the Web Server and File Sharing Services.
Step 3: Exit Opera and head over to opera.com to download the latest version of Opera. Install the program (overwrite the existing installation) and now when you open Opera, the Unite option will be enabled by default.
Alternatively, if you would not like to touch your existing installation of Opera, simple download the portable version of Opera from opera-usb.com (choose version 11 here) and it will have the Unite feature built-in.