Web Development
Cross Browser CSS Opacity
Friday, September 4th, 2009
The CSS property opacity is unfortunately one of those properties that isn’t well supported… Kinda. Current versions of Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome support it just fine. But, of course this leaves the bastard child: Internet Explorer. But are you really surprised? Luckily there’s a trick to work around Internet Explorer’s inadequacy. It involves the [...]
Automatically Include Files with PHP & Apache
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Need to include a files in all of your site’s pages? Normally, you’d use require() or include(). But do you really want to manually past the include code in every page? There’s the little known PHP directive auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file. What are PHP directives? They’re essential global PHP settings that are defined in you php.ini [...]
Easy jQuery Form Validation
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Form’s can be a hassle. You have either incomplete forms, or you loads of spam… And no one wants either of those. That’s where form validation comes in. Not only will it help catch when someone has not filled in all the required information, but it also creates less of a headache for you. And [...]
WordPress: Advanced Comment Customization
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Comments are an important part of a WordPress run site. It not only allows your visitors to chime in on your rantings, but it elevates the interactivity of your website, and helps keep visitors coming back. It’s unfortunate that there really isn’t much built in customization when it comes to comments. WordPress by default allows [...]
Advanced Post2Post Links
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Linking from one blog post to the next can be frustrating, especially if you decided later down the road to change your permalinks. Instead of having to deal with that, you can use a plugin to do so. There are a few plugins out there, but they require you to know the post id and [...]
Website Navigational Menu’s
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Navigational menus are the most important aspect of a website. Look at any website you go to. In some form or another, there is a navigational menu. Go figure, since it’s what directs visitors around. Without one, you leave you visitors to search for links on your pages in order to advance through your site. [...]
MySQL Find and Replace
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Quite often I find myself needing to replace certain content in my database, but some of my databases have hundreds, even thousands of rows. I don’t want to sift through all that and manually replace everything! And, I hope you don’t either. Well, I would assume that’s why you’re here. Here’s a handy SQL code [...]