Archive for December, 1969
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Ever wanted to see who was responsible for giving us the server-side scripting language, PHP? Thought so. So here's a handy tip for displaying the names of the folks who were responsible, right from any PHP script.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
One of the first things to decide when designing a website is how wide you're going to make it. When using a fixed width (as opposed to a fluid layout) we need to decide exactly how many pixels we're going to make it. Unfortunately, like most web design techniques, it's not an exact science therefore we utter the all too familiar words of "developing for the majority". We begin...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
It's now 2008 and we've been in business for 7 years, so we feel it's time for a change. We value our blog readers' opinions and would like to see what you guys all think about a few logo ideas we've been playing with.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
This is the first part in our series of niche website design articles. The purpose of a niche website is to get lots of targeted traffic and make money from pay-per-click advertising or affiliate schemes. Following the launch of 2 niche websites; Telescope Advice and Lawn Mower Advice, we are discussing the techniques used to identify a niche in this first of our five part article.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
As far as website accessibility tools go, Bobby by Watchfire WebXact is one of the most popular and, in our opinion one of the best. We use it all the time to test our websites for accessibility compliance. Sadly, Bobby has been taken underground and since 1 February 2008 it's no longer available to the public. What a shame.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
I'm often asked which is better: .htm or .html. This (extremely!) short article
discusses the differences between the two file types and which is the correct one to use.
So what's the difference and which is best?
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
A small tutorial and example script to validate the format of an e-mail address. This is very useful when capturing e-mail addresses from visitors.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
We're currently moving from PC to Mac and part of this process involves transferring our email from Microsoft Outlook 2004 to Apple Mail. This is by no means a straight forward process when you have 2GB worth of email spanning 7 years! That was until we came across a tool named MessageSave by TechHit! Read on...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Ever wondered how websites can tell you how far it is from one UK post code to another? This tutorial will tell you everything you need to know about adding this cool feature to your website using PHP and MySQL. Warning - although there is complex maths involved, no clever maths knowledge is required.
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