Answer My Query

App_Data, App_Code, App_Themes, and App_GlobalResources – we’ve come to love them over the years.

I was hoping the team could add a few more “special” folders to ASP.NET, but I don't think these will make it ...

App_Store – drop in an xml file with product descriptions and … presto! Instant e-commerce!

App_etizers – content you serve customers before they get to the main part of the site. 

App_liances – will work with Azure, because cloud computing needs appliances.

App_endix – I'm not sure what this would do, actually. Perhaps I should remove it.

QueryLoader is a jQuery based pre-loader that gets all the images of a web page and preload them (even the images in CSS). While it is preloading you can show a loading bar with custom animations using jQuery.

QueryLoader has been tested in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE7, IE8 and IE6 (script will be ignored in IE6 though). Implementing the script is very easy and it can be customized to preload all images or part of the web page.

Features:

• Preload a whole web page
• Preload a part of the page
• Gets all images, <img> tags and background-image of your CSS
• Easy to implement
• Adjustable loading bar

Developed by Gaya Kessler; QueryLoader is available for download License Free.  You can find further information, demos & download on QueryLoader Website.

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If you will be at Adobe MAX next week, please stop by the O'Reilly Booth between 6:30pm - 8pm to meet your favorite O'Reilly InsideRIA authors. Here is the list of the authors who will be on hand at this...

Today, I have some very big news at Noupe. I am thrilled to announce that Noupe has been acquired by Smashing Magazine. This is certainly both a good move for Noupe and a benefit to our readers.

I am very happy that Smashing Magazine wants to invest in growing the vision that I believe so strongly in. Smashing Magazine will bring many exciting things to Noupe in the next few months as this relationship takes form. Right now, we are still finalizing the acquisition, making sure our current readers won’t be disappointed. Most importantly, I think most of you guys will be happy, because Smashing Magazine will continue to smash Web designers and developers with even more good stories and quality material.

The reason for this move is my personal situation: I have to take care of some issues right now, and I don’t want to compromise the quality of articles on Noupe or let the website slowly fade away. But stay tuned cause i will come back soon with something new very soon.

As a loyal reader of Noupe, you do not have to worry about anything. You won’t be disappointed, and you don’t have to be afraid of weird changes: Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz of Smashing Magazine are not going to turn Noupe into something completely different. Noupe will remain a high-quality blog for designers and Web developers. In fact, from now on, even more time and resources will be invested in well-researched high-quality articles; Smashing Magazine will develop it further, doing its best to serve the global Web design community. And of course, Noupe readers will be able to help guide that development: your comments, feedback and interests will be listened to and taken into consideration.

Two years have passed since we launched. It actually feels longer than that sometimes because of how far the website and I have come. As most of you know, Noupe has been run by me, Noura Yehia, and at times over the past couple of years, I have been pushed to the edge by various growth spurts.

We’ve been busy bringing you tips, techniques and tutorials about anything related to Web Design. About 300 articles have been delivered to over 33,000 readers of our RSS feed. I am really happy to have such an intelligent audience.

A big “thank you” goes to:

Every one of you for your great suggestions and contributions. We wouldn’t have done it without you.

Cameron Chapman and Joel Reyes (our regular authors), and Kawsar Ali, Steven Snell and Soh Tanaka for writing useful, quality posts for our readers.

Todd Garland of buysellads.com for getting us some of the biggest sponsors out there to fill all of our ad spots without any effort from my side. Thank you, Todd.

We really appreciate your continued support and understanding. Thanks so much for being a part of the Noupe community, and please continue to do so now and in the future.

Noura Yehia

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Although we are all bummed around here that Steve Weiss is leaving the InsideRIA team, we know what an important role he plays within O'Reilly as a whole and that he is the right man to make O'Reilly's new partnership with Microsoft a success. I just wanted to offer my personal thank you for his work on the InsideRIA project and his trust in my decision making along the way. All of us on the InsideRIA team have worked very hard to put high quality content in the hands of the RIA community and Steve has always kept us motivated to keep innovating and evolving the site. He will be missed. Best wishes in your new position. Rich Tretola InsideRIA Community Manager