Month: April, 2007

US spelling in HTML code

23 April, 2007 (11:03) | Web Tips

Here’s a mini web tip for those of us around the world who don’t always spell things the USA way!
If you’re hand-coding your web pages, and you’re used to British-English, the big two to watch out for are “color vs colour” and “center vs centre”

Sometimes you “gloss over” those words in your code when you’re […]

Ensure images are the right size

23 April, 2007 (10:10) | New User Tips, Web Tips

One of the common mistakes made with images online, especially by new users, is to have an image used in the website in smaller dimensions than its actual size.
Say, for example, you have an image that is 2592 x 1944 pixels (that’s around the size of a high quality image from a 5-megapixel camera).
The common […]

Fantastic Color Tool

21 April, 2007 (23:13) | Graphic Tools

Adobe Labs’ Kuler (http://kuler.adobe.com) online software is a fantastic resource to play with color themes.
There are hundreds of themes already on the site (view by newest or by most popular). You can create themes based on a number of different color theory “rules” — such as an analogous theme, a complementary theme or a monochromatic […]

Free PHP Date Display Script

21 April, 2007 (22:36) | Free PHP Scripts

What’s this script for?

Makes an adjustment between server time and local time
Nice and simple to use!
Only 4 lines required, commented lines can be removed
Works in older versions of PHP (v3+)

This script is useful if you use a virtual hosting service for your web pages. In our case, the server we use (at Pair Networks) is […]

Two Words To Leave Out Of Page Titles

21 April, 2007 (22:32) | Web Tips

Here’s our first tip for you — a simple one, but often ignored!
So, without any stalling, here are the two words NOT to include:

Site Revamp!

21 April, 2007 (16:11) | News

Finally, it’s time to revamp this website!
In the past, this was our main website for our business. We changed over business though at the start of 2006, but we left our free “Local Date Display” PHP code on the website. And it still continues to get downloaded every day.
So… instead of just killing off this […]