Practical PHP Scripts and 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 [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]