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Preloading CSS Hover Images
November 14th, 2009
This is a method for pre-loading your images used in CSS. Normally, when you hover over a link, the browser has to download the hover image, which will cause the background color to “flash” for a second and ruin the user experience. This article explains how to fix that problem using javascript.
Simple AJAX
November 13th, 2009
AJAX is not a language. It is simply giving a name to something that has existed for years. Using the DOM of the web browser you are allowed to pass XML between the server and the client without having to reload the page. You don’t necessarily have to pass XML; in this example we will be passing simple text.
Tabbed CSS Navigation
November 12th, 2009
This explains how to build a navigation which looks like “tabs” using CSS. Your tabs will use text and can be of variable lengths.
Attractive HTML/CSS Gmail Signatures
November 9th, 2009
This will explain how to use attractive signatures in your emails which can be inserted into your emails directly from gmail.
Create Windows Vista like buttons using Photoshop
November 7th, 2009
This is a step by step guide on how to make attractive buttons in Photoshop which look just like the Windows Vista buttons.
Web Image Formats Size and Quality Comparison
November 6th, 2009
This is a demonstration of the different image formats used for the web, with an explanation of which situation to use one or the other.
Creating Seamless Textures using Photoshop
November 5th, 2009
This tutorial describes how you can take an image which normally doesn’t repeat seamlessly and get it to repeat as one seamless texture.
Introduction to Photoshop Blending Options
November 4th, 2009Here we will describe several of the popular blending options used in photoshop, with screenshots and explanations of each setting.
Windows Icon (*.ico) Plugin for Photoshop
November 3rd, 2009How you can setup your photoshop installation to save as the Windows Icon format, useful for creating favicon.ico files for your website.
Workaround for Forwarding Paypal Emails
October 26th, 2009A workaround for shared hosting environments which will not forward paypal emails.
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 [...]
Change PHP Timezones
September 19th, 2009When working with dates, PHP uses the system time by default, which is dependent on the timezone the server is in. So, instead of doing tricky math with the results of the date function, you can simply change the timezone. Here is the function used to change the timezone: <?php putenv(“TZ=US/Detroit”); ?> One thing to [...]
PHP Class for creating CSS Graphs
September 18th, 2009We’ve developed a PHP Class for drawing a CSS graph. The CSS and XHTML code for this class was originally developed by Meyerweb, we just took it and wrapped a PHP class around it. This class is also hosted over at phpclasses.org if you prefer to get your stuff on that site, but keep in [...]
PHP Bargraph Generator
September 16th, 2009This script is loaded using an image tag and generates data based on information added as GET parameters. For example: <img src=”bar.php?value=100&max=256&info” /> Generates: This script requires at least four files to use. The first is an HTML file which loads the image (of course), the second is the background “bar.png” image which the graph [...]
Clean URL Generator in Javascript
September 9th, 2009This function generates clean URL’s, similar to how Wordpress generates URL’s from the title tag.