Here’s a quick piece of code that i find useful to check if a request that comes to a PHP page was made via an Ajax call or a simple form post. This method uses the $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] request to determine …
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Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to work on a few personal projects. This allowed me to experiment more with techniques that I wouldn’t have normally used on client sites. During this time I was building a …
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Here’s a quick CSS tip. Firefox likes to put a dotted border around any links that you click as shown below, but there’s an easy way to fix it simply add the code below to your ‘a tag’ style either …
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I’ve never written a jQuery tooltip script before so i thought i’d give it a go and write my own. Its very much in the experimental stage but i thought i’d open it up to see what the community has …
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My last blog post was on how to make an autosuggest tool with jQuery, no sooner had i pressed the publish button did i find my complete blog post on guidesigner.net I had spent time and effort writing that tutorial …
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The ability to drag and drop content on a page and have it save the order can make for a great user interface and is actually relatively easy to execute with a few lines of jQuery. You’ll need to include …
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I decided to add a title and description to the simple gallery tutorial i posted a few days back as an addition for those of you wanting to display further info about a picture in the gallery. The new code …
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The Farbtastic colour picker is really easy to implement. Its great if your building a customisable interface for an online product in the same way that you can manipulate the design of your Twitter profile. Farbtastic uses layered transparent PNGs …
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I recently had the need to build a dynamic form preview tool for work so clients could preview how the text and images would look before submitting the content to be published. I’ve trimmed down the code and removed the …
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Recently I was asked to code a really simple photo gallery with jQuery, so I thought I’d post it for all to use. Its really simple and is the first time I’ve built a gallery with jQuery. It works by …
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Facebook connect has been one of those things that I’ve been tinkering with for a while now. I started by downloading the example Facebook connect application from Facebook. and gradually found my way around using it. Im using the same …
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A few months ago i purchased the ioBridge module which allows you to control electronic devices over an internet connection anywhere in the world. I’m intrigued at the collaboration of the internet with real life electronic devices, and being able …
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Minimising the time a user has to wait for a web page to load is crucial. Using Gzip and PHP we can minimise file sizes of CSS files. This technique is a powerful and simple way to reduce page download …
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If you type in a URL to a web site in your browser and that URL returns data in a structured format, then a basic API is already in place. For example, when you access an RSS feed, you’re essentially …
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Here’s a short but sweet list of a few of the best business cards that I’ve come across on the internet for a bit of design inspiration. I often find things like this useful and often fill the gaps on …
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Here’s how to use PHP CURL and the TinyURL api to generate tiny urls on the fly. This is a similar tutorial to the one I wrote a while back on using the Twitter API I’ve set the variable $maketiny …
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I don’t usually write a post about free stuff, but i couldn’t resist today as i found this awesome site that has over 3000 quality icons to download for free. You can use then in personal or commercial projects and …
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I thought I’d share this great little site for displaying website thumbnails for free and unbranded! http://snapcasa.com/ Move over Websnapr, Snapcasa’s coming through! Websnapr has somewhat dominated the market over the years with their thumbnail generation service as they boast …
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Cookies are mainly used to authenticate a users session, they are small packets of data that are stored in the web browser that allow a website to match specific user information to that in the database, thus authenticating the user. …
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Google provides a great set of javascript api’s to interact with its service. The Google service allows you to integrate maps, local search, dynamic feed content, and graphs and charts, into your website or blog. To start using the service …
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