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A HTML-Kit feature I never knew about!

While working on a site in HTML-Kit today I accidentally came across a feature that I really wish I knew about a long time ago. I was happily coding away (oddly enough) in PHP and had highlighted a few lines of code that I wanted to move. Before I had the chance to move them [...]


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Advanced Bells & Whistles

Remember back to when you first learnt how to design web sites? Remember adding all those bells & whistles? I certainly do. Why did I add them? Because it seemed cool at the time. The thing is… I’m still adding bells & whistles! Only now they’re more advanced bells & whistles. Now that I know [...]


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Seperating code from content?

Many people have talked about seperating style from content (2, 3, 4), but for those of us who also code, what about seperating code from content? At present I’m in the process of coding a backend for a new site, but because I’m only at the intermediate stage of my PHP learning curve I’m still [...]


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Automated Style Switcher

With the Christmas period upon us, I got to thinking… wouldn’t it be cool to be able to change the style of your site automatically depending on the time of the year? Well with PHP it’s easy! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 $today = date(′d/m′); echo "<style type="text/css">"; [...]


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The Joys of AMP on WinXP SP2

So what’s AMP? Apache, MySQL & PHP. Why so joyous? Because it’s soooooo easy to upgrade them that even a kid could do it! I’ll leave the decision of whether or not their is a hint of sarcasm in that statement up to you Honestly…. I don’t care what anyone says… it’s not all gravy. [...]


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