Social share buttons have been integral part of the internet and it seemed like we are constantly looking for better ways integrate them into our websites, most people are happy with regular copy/paste snippet provided by social websites, but some of us are still not so satisfied with regular setting, because we have to load bulky third party javascripts which somehow appears to affect overall performance of the website.

Today let’s create an Ajax based contact form, that will allow users to send attachments in email message. This tutorial has been updated recently and is based on my recent post here. I’ve added Ajax part to the the example here, it will send form data without refreshing the page.

In previous article I discussed about loading the Google map on a HTML page, adding-removing the markers and displaying info windows. In this article we are moving to the next step, here we are going to load markers from PHP generated XML file, and we will edit/save marker information into the database, finally creating a total custom map for the website.

Combining Javascript and CSS files and can tremendously reduce the number of HTTP requests your page make, making your website lighter and faster. It’s one of those tweaks to improve your website performance. This snippet doesn’t minify files, it just simply combines multiple files into single one.