I just ran into a great tutorial for php beginners (like me): The Magic of PHP + MySQL It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a...

Source: http://maketecheasier.com Dropbox, Sugarsync and Zumodrive are some of the great online storage services that you can use to store, sync and access your files right from your desktop. However, they only offer a meagre free storage space (less than 5GB) that may not even be enough to backup your...

The problem with long dropdowns is that the dropdown itself can go below the “fold” of the website. That is, below the visible area of the browser window. So in order to access those menu items down below, you need to scroll your browser window. Those lower menu items are totally inaccessible, because...

Last week I was finishing some code for a webshop. From the admin panel the user can add items with a thumbnail image. These thumbnails have a max-width(100) and max-height(100), because they are shown in a container of 280 x 280 px. Example: This is the css for the image: .prodimg img{ max-height:100px; ...

You can add a personal style to Twitter by creating your own background. Think of it as an extension of your business card that you’re handing to every visitor who comes to your Twitter homepage. There are no specific guidelines from Twitter regarding dimensions and setting up a background, so let’s...

Automatic add an avatar to your comments using Gravatar. A Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site? Setting up Gravatars on your...

Prevent Acess to .htaccess Add the following code block to your htaccess file to add an extra layer of security. Any attempts to access the htaccess file will result in a 403 error message. Of course, your first layer of defense to protect htaccess files involves setting htaccess file permissions...

A good friend gave me an article about htaccess. Some parts i really want to share! So i will post about them in separate parts. First some overall info: Apache server software provides distributed (i.e., directory-level) configuration via Hypertext Access files. These .htaccess files enable the localized...

Start your project from zero. Reset all standard elements before you start coding. Old news from Eric Meyer, but very handy to get back to. Add this code to your css, and you start from scratch. html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym,...