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Star Rating Script PHP And MySQL Tutorial
If you have been to this blog before you may know that I have released a script written in JavaScript that allows you to easily add star ratings to anything you require. You can find that blog here.However, in that blog I didn't go through the steps required to actually save the rating. After being contacted asking for help on the matter and wanting to write an nice introduction to PHP and MySQL I felt that this would be a good time to kill two birds with one stone. So, read on to learn how to w...
Posted Fri 18th Jun @ 08:42 by ahallicks | Comments 2
Simple CSS Debugging Methods
Firebug, Firebug, Firebug!If you are a web developer and you haven't heard of Firebug you need to get it now! It is a free Firefox addon that lets you traverse the contents of any web page, view the CSS, view the javascript, debug your scripts and edit them live. Basically, everything you could want from a development tool. And the best part is that it's free!All you need to do to use it is download it/install it (if you are not using Firefox you can download the Lite version (installation instr...
Posted Tue 15th Jun @ 10:37 by ahallicks | Comments 4
The Acid 3 Test - The Latest Browser Results
Whilst browsing the Internet today I came across this great letter, which contained a link to a blog written by Internet Explorer and how IE9 is going to eventually almost comply to the acid 3 test (although the time that happens the acid 4 test will have been released and IE9 won't have a chance!). This led me to wonder how the current array of popular and up-to-date browser versions are complying with the acid 3 test as it stands today. The results were interesting in some cases, bhut as yo...
Posted Tue 18th May @ 22:28 by ahallicks | Comments 2
How Has Social Media Helped You 'Find The Web'?
Since the introduction of Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms it's safe to say that the interaction on the web has risen by a substantial factor. I cannot think of a single commericial industry that either hasn't had or couldn't have a positive impact from reaching into the social media stream. A brilliant example of this can be found here entitled "How Social Media and the Web Helped Avatar Make $1 Billion". This story is quite amazing and just shows the extent to which social...
Posted Thu 13th May @ 12:16 by ahallicks | Comments 6
Do RSS Feeds Detract From Website Traffic Trends?
Is it just me, or do RSS feeds detract the user from a website? Let me try to explain what I mean by this. Recently, because I've been reading a lot, and particularly a lot from Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag), I've installed a Firefox add-on called "Google Reader Watcher", which allows me to instantly see how many feeds I have unread in my statusbar. That's just great! It means i don't have to go and check myself and when something new pops up I click it and it takes me to my Google Reader...
Posted Thu 6th May @ 15:30 by ahallicks | Comments 1
YUITip - Simple JavaScript Tooltip For YUI
Demo I wanted to create a simple tooltip for a project I was working on and have seen plenty of jQuery examples, but as you may know by now I prefer to use the YUI library for all of my javascript. So I took this opportunity to write myself a nice little script that would do exactly what I wanted with the greatest of ease.I also thought I would share the finished result with you, in case you are looking for the same sort of thing. It is configurable by changing a couple of the options at the to...
Posted Thu 22nd Apr @ 23:14 by ahallicks | Comments 9
YUILight - Spotlight Your Page Elements With YUI
YUILight is a customisable YUI Script that will highlight an element on your page simply by applying a class of 'yuilight' to that element. When that element is clicked and focused on, everything else on the page will be covered by a mask and that single element will stand out from the rest.It is a very simple script to implement only requiring two javascript files and no CSS! The options for customising the script can be found at the top of the javascript file (which is fully commented for you)...
Posted Fri 26th Mar @ 13:38 by ahallicks | Comments 7
Pure CSS Speech Bubbles
I love CSS3. If you're viewing this in a decent modern browser (not Internet Explorer) then you can probably see that because of the amount I use. I do, however, always try to use progressive enhancement in my projects so that anything that looks great in the good browsers still looks presentable in other browsers. What I love most about CSS3 is how easy it is to do some of the things that used to be an absolute chore for us web developers. Simple things such as creating rounded corners for e...
Posted Mon 8th Mar @ 10:09 by ahallicks | Comments 2
The Universal Selector - A CSS Must Have?
During the creation of web pages the most difficult task set forth before any web developer is that of cross-browser compatibility. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and so forth, have their own default margins and padding for certain elements on the page, and the page itself. This means that when building a web site there are going to be differences between browsers in terms of display and layout. The Universal Selector is not as widely known as many of the CSS selectors beca...
Posted Fri 5th Mar @ 14:20 by ahallicks | Comments 5
Unfollow Your Twitter Followers On DeVSeO
Have you somehow managed to amass a great following of people you just don't know on Twitter? It happens. You probably don't realise it, especially if you have one of those tools that automatically follows anyone that is following you. All too easily you may find that you have a great number of followers that you simply don't want! I have seen quite a number of tools on the Internet that say they can mass remove or delete all of your Twitter followers but I have found almost none of those to...
Posted Sat 30th Jan @ 20:13 by ahallicks | Comments 4
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