Category Archives: Reviews
WebDeveloper
Upon entering WebDeveloper.com one of the first things you notice are the large adverts based at the top of the page. This can be a slight annoyance when your browsing the forum regularly and posting in multiple topics.
But when you get past the adverts you can find an active discussion board with over a million posts and thousands of users many who are regularly active. WebDeveloper.com covers a wide range of topics such as Client-Side Development (HTML, XML, CSS, Graphics), Server-Side Development (PHP, Perl/Python/Ruby, ASP, SQL) to Server Management including (Domain Names, Website Reviews and Search engines) along with many more.
The community in WebDeveloper.com are often developers with years of experience and knowledge behind them and help out fellow users on a regular basis. Along with DevNetwork I am also a regular visitor to WebDeveloper and would highly recommend it to anyone interested.
Pixel2life
Pixel2life.com is a online collaboration of thousands of development tutorials, this ranges from website development PHP to tutorials on General Photography.
My personal experience with Pixel2life.com has been since 2008 after signing up to submit my first tutorial when I had my old website pk-tuts.co.uk (*Please note pk-tuts.co.uk website has not been touched for many month and has no regular updates*). Now a days I submit my tutorials posted on this site and keep track of all the latest tutorials people post through a RSS feed into Microsoft Outlook.
Pixel2life.com has thousands and possibly millions of tutorials listed on its website, with a major revamp of its website a couple years ago in which many new features have appeared and a fresh feel to the site in with it brings. Although the revamp of the site brings many new features submitting tutorials can be a slow process as sending in the tutorials taking seconds but can take many months for the tutorial to be listed on its website, due to moderation of tutorials by hand.
Overall I like the Pixel2life.com website with its active community and large selection of tutorials, I hope recent urges to recruit web developers to help with Pixel2life will help speed up features which have been due for many years.
DevNetwork Forums
During my time I often search google for website development related stuff, Every so often I find a forum which on the front looks popular yet friendly and with regular updates but many fail to impress after a few days upon signing up.
After signing up to DevNetwork.net forums, in January 2011. I have been impressed with how active the community is, many users post daily and often multiple times through out the day so checking back regularly brings lots of updates. The administrators and moderators are friendly and helpful with keeping the forums clean of spam and easy to use.
Over the past month I have replied to many a topic from users who require assistance with PHP coding problems or queries, The community are helpful and respond to users within hours of posting. I have enjoyed seeing fellow users post their ways of overcoming problems with their own solutions and it too has helped myself develop my coding skills. As well as sections on allowing people to discuss problems, sections include coding critique, which allows users to post snippets or sections of code they have made allowing users to comment on how to improve. This can be used as a great learning technique which goes strongly along side the tutorials that users post.
I plan on keeping up to date with the latest on DevNetwork Forums and will help troubleshoot users and develop their PHP skills along with my own as I become a regular within the DevNetwork Forum Community.
