Tutorials and step-by-step guides from CodingTheSmartWay

Adding images to the background of a website is often essential to achieve good and outstanding web designs. By using pure HTML and CSS you can control how a background image of your website is displayed. Let\’s learn how to handle background images step by step in this short tutorial.

JavaScript Object Notation, commonly referred to as JSON, is a text-based data exchange format. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to implement a simple Node.js web server which is able to return data in JSON format as a response to an HTTP request.

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a very basic HTTP web server with Node.js. In order to generate a simple text response to an HTTP GET request we’ll be making use of the Node module http.

A loader or loading indicator is an animated element which is displayed on the website to show that a process is running at the moment and the user needs to wait for it to complete (e.g. loading of data). Such an element can be easily created with pure CSS. Let’s implement a simple animated CSS loader …

Getting data from external REST APIs is a common task when programming in Python. In this short tutorial you’ll learn the fastest and easiest way to read data from a REST API by using the Python programming language. Let’s get started …