Good-Tutorials.com offers free tutorials for visitors, with their most popular being Photoshop tutorials, and with PHP being our favorite category to upload tutorials. We have hosted several tutorials on their site, and when one gets approved, GT sends us a couple hundred visitors over the next couple days, then traffic returns to normal. So, we figured [...]
Browsing the blog archives for October, 2009
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On my shared hosting server, we had the need to setup a secondary paypal address for not one but two clients. The clients originally had their paypal accounts created using a shared email service (such as gmail), but later decided it would be more professional to use a paypal@example.com type of email address. Normally, we create [...]
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Today, 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, and [...]
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Today, 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, and [...]
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Today 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 the [...]
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CSS Rules for IMG tags, along with information about using images as CSS background-image.
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Problem: Here 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. Every element is in the shape of a rectangle (and you wonder why developers cringe when circles are a part of layouts?) A box has several [...]
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The latest version of CSS allows you to add shadows to your text using the “text-shadow” property. Here’s an example of what the output looks like in your browser: I have a drop shadow of 0px X distance, 2px Y distance, 3px blur value, and a black color. The text-shadow property takes four values, being the color code, [...]
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Introduction This 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. You can also download a PDF [...]
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Not too long ago I needed a web application to send text message updates to my cellphone. The application would interface with other applications and I would need an hourly statistics report which would also include any errors, which would need to be fixed ASAP. Email could take a while to be received, and this [...]
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