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.

Here are some noteworthy tutorials from Sanwebe.com, which I am sure will help contribute to your Web development projects. Most tutorials are pretty basic, and some are intermediate level, but not that mind boggling. Depending on your cognitive abilities you should be able to grasp them very easily. I’ll be updating this list often so do comeback time to time.

If your website receives a good amount of traffic every day and your web pages are loading slow, you might want to consider implementing some sort of caching mechanism on your website to speed up page loading time. Because as we all know that each client-server request consists of many queries, loops, calculations, database queries etc. these all add up to processing time, which eventually increases page loading time. The simplest way to avoid all these is to create cache files and store them in a separate directory, which can later be served as fast loading static pages instead of dynamically generated pages.