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Advertise on Good-Tutorials, a case study
October 28th, 2009Good-Tutorials.com offers free tutorials for visitors, with their most popular being Photoshop tutorials, and with PHP being our favorite category to upload tutorials. This is a case study of our efforts at advertising our product on the GT site.
Workaround for Forwarding Paypal Emails
October 26th, 2009A workaround for shared hosting environments which will not forward paypal emails.
Jack Pine Productions Website Redesign Launched
October 25th, 2009Today, we launched the redesign of Jack Pine Productions, a post video post production company. The site isn’t 100% complete, and still has a few “Coming Soon” pages, but we had to hit a deadline due to some upcoming publicity. The website features several flash video players (of course), wordpress.com blog embedding, photo gallery management, [...]
Bowhunting Addiction Online Store Launched
October 23rd, 2009Today, we went live with the online store for Bowhunting Addiction, one of our outdoor and hunting clients. This store sells different apparels and hunting supplies, such as stink sticks and arrow wraps. The website launched with about two dozen products and will likely feature more soon to come. The store was built using OpenCart, [...]
Salon de Lourdes Website Launched
October 22nd, 2009Today we went live with Salon de Lourdes, a styling salon located in Detroit, MI. The website was designed by the talented graphic designers over at Bolger + Battle, while we converted the layout into a functioning and animated website, which we then integrated our custom Content Management System into. This of course will allow [...]
Image CSS
October 21st, 2009CSS Rules for IMG tags, along with information about using images as CSS background-image.
CSS Box Model differences in Firefox and Internet Explorer
October 20th, 2009Here is the bane of web developers existence, Internet Explorer incorrectly displaying the CSS box model. What is the box model? This describes all elements used in HTML documents.
CSS Drop Shadows using text-shadow
October 19th, 2009The latest version of CSS allows you to add shadows to your text using the “text-shadow” property.
Database Administration using phpMyAdmin
October 18th, 2009This document will cover various database administration activities using phpMyAdmin (PMA for short). This covers three levels of administration; database level, table level, and row (data) level. PMA is a database front end for the popular database language/architecture MySQL. PMA itself is written in the equally popular server-side language PHP.
Send SMS Cellphone Messages from your Website
October 17th, 2009A simple way to send emails to cell phones from websites. The examples use PHP, but the principles would work with any programming language.
Free MySQL database of all countries
October 16th, 2009This is a database dump of all countries, along with their 2 digit country code. There are 246 countries total, sorted alphabetically. The database dump has three columns, the first is a primary numeric key set to autoincrement. The second is the two character abbreviation of the country. The third column is the name of [...]
Short URL generator / Referrer hider
October 15th, 2009ezLINK.info has an easy to work with API for generating shorter links. Why might someone want to create shorter links? For one thing, long URLs with tons of GET based information can be cumbersome to work with, especially manually
PlaySushi TextLinks firefox uninstall
October 11th, 2009Do you have a Firefox Add-on called “PlaySushi TextLinks 1.0.0″ which you would like to remove, but won’t actually go away when you uninstall it from your Firefox?
Sending and Receiving emails using Gmail for another email address
October 9th, 2009A lot of people would like to know how to send emails from their business email address and how to receive them as well, all by using their Gmail account. There are a lot of reasons a person would want to do this, mainly because Gmail offers an amazing service, has the best SPAM filters [...]
Omega Caliber: MMO Game Under Development
October 8th, 2009We’ve finally come up with a name for the MMO we are developing, Omega Caliber. Originally a tabletop entitled “Vitagen” designed by Andrew Beattie, Omega Caliber is a turn based multiplayer combat game requiring lots of strategy and foresight. While we’re not exactly sure if it’s fair to call this an RPG, Omega Caliber will [...]
Free Icons
October 3rd, 2009This post will link you to several websites where you can download free icons. These icons can be easily integrated into any project or application you are developing, whether it be a web application which you would like to redistribute or just setting them as icons for your desktop. All of the icons we’ll be [...]
Free Notepad++ Web Developers Theme
October 2nd, 2009This is a custom developed Notepad++ theme that we use in house at Renowned Media. This is mostly used for web development languages, so the other languages will have been forsaken. For anyone who doesn’t know, Notepad++ is a syntax highlighted text editor, comparable in functionality to the larger web development IDE’s minus all of [...]