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Webmaster Academy - Webmaster Tools Help

Webmaster Academy - Webmaster Tools Help

Getting Started: Building a Chrome Extension Extensions allow you to add functionality to Chrome without diving deeply into native code. You can create new extensions for Chrome with those core technologies that you're already familiar with from web development: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you've ever built a web page, you should feel right at home with extensions pretty quickly; we'll put that to the test right now by walking through the construction of a simple extension that will give you one-click access to pictures of kittens. Kittens! We'll do so by implementing a UI element we call a browser action, which allows us to place a clickable icon right next to Chrome's Omnibox for easy access. If you'd like to follow along at home (and you should!) The very first thing we'll need to create is a manifest file named manifest.json. In order to display kittens, we'll want to tell Chrome that we'd like to create a browser action, and that we'd like free-reign to access kittens from a particular source on the net.

Sweet Search Le Web de Sam Getting the Hang of GitHub A project is always more fun when you've got friends working with you, but how can do it when working on a coding project? I'll keep my keyboard to myself, thanks. Enter GitHub. With this web service, you can share your coding projects and collaborate with ease! Disclaimer This tutorial will assume that you're familiar with Git, arguably the best distributed version control software there is. Getting Started Of course, you'll need a GitHub account if you're to experience any of the social coding goodness. Creating an Account There are several different plans you can use, depending on your needs. Open up your terminal and type this: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your@email.com". Warming up to the Interface When you first log in, you'll see the dashboard; it's something like this: In the top right corner, you can see a toolbar with options for controlling your account. The main panel offers a number of actions; later, it will be used to keep you up to date on projects you're interested in. Commits

Startpage Web Recherche Maps Read, Write, Innovate! Silicon Valley May 3rd, 4th, and 17th, 9am-4pm What do Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter have in common? They were all created by people who knew how to code. Programming is a skill that gives you the ability to create and innovate. That’s what CodeNow is for! We introduce you to programming in a fun and interactive way. Our workshops take place in San Francisco and New York City on the weekends at local tech companies, and are led by top software engineers. We’re currently accepting applications which are due on April 22nd. Still have questions? Trouble viewing the application? <iframe height="500" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="width:100%;border:none;"src=" href=" rel="nofollow">Fill out my Wufoo form!

WhereGoes? - A tool for tracing the redirect path of URLs Create paintings from photos Did you ever wanted to be a great artist? But unfortunately you are really bad at it? Well that's ok because now with Psykopaint you can be a great artist with no skills. But how does it work? Python String Manipulation We already saw a brief introduction to the Python string type. In this section we will try to further explore how strings can be used in this language. Length of a String Finding the length of a string is done using the built-in function len(): Strings Are Immutable Strings in Python are immutable i.e. they cannot be changed once created. Concatenation and Substrings Concatenation of strings in Python is done using the plus operator. We can use * as a short hand notation for concatenating a string with itself multiple times: Other types such as ints and floats are not forced into strings when on either side of the concatenation operator: Output: => TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' We can, however, convert the int into a string and then perform the concatenation: Similarly we can use str() to convert floats (and other types) to a string. Single characters can be read from a string using the indexing operator (brackets, []). Format Strings String Methods

Web Design Lessons from Time’s 50 Best Websites Time magazine’s list of the 50 best websites is always indicative of the trends that are hot (and lucrative) on the web. The 2011 award winners were no different. An analysis of the honored websites of yesteryear reveal nine (and surely more) trends that have had serious staying power in 2012. Time’s 2011 selections are quite diverse, ranging from personal radio services to e-zines but they have all one thing in common: design is at the forefront of their success. Whether it’s the functionality, the aesthetic, the intuitive user friendliness or the meaningful user experience, great design is omnipresent. 1. The niche for static design is narrowing exponentially. From dynamic pages generated in response to visitors’ search queries to a tailored experience for registered members, there are numerous ways in which you can make your website more personal and individualized. 2. Social should have an additional ‘so’ before it to reflect how important it is for our digital future. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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