Quite often when developing big web apps you may need to use mod_rewrite to generate SEO friendly URLs from a string of text, Very similar to the way Word press generates URLs for blog posts. The Code Below is the …
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I was browsing forrst.com and saw a pretty interesting code snippet from Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks which is pretty useful for WordPress users and allows the gravatar of a commenter to be dynamically pulled into the comment box as soon …
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If you think you can just build a website and expect it to perform well you can think again. Getting a website to the top of search results is every marketing managers goal. Im going to run through five key …
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API Knowledge A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched …
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Learning a new programming language can be daunting to say the least. I’ve recently cracked it when it comes to jQuery. I wouldn’t say Im a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I can successfully build applications. It …
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How many times have you booked that holiday or purchased a new gadget and been presented with a button that says ‘Print your receipt’? Users generally have to be pushed into executing a physical action such as printing a receipt …
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I haven’t written a post for the last week, largely because I’ve been busy behind the scenes developing the new site design. The last theme i had was a standard theme that wasn’t really modified, but this time I’ve used …
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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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I’ve been away for the last week. My wife and I bought a flat in North London and finally moved in on March 16th. So I’m currently without the internet and won’t have it until the end of March which …
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A few days ago I was looking around the internet for a solution on how to add Gravatar avatars to my WordPress comments section, and I found out that its easier than I originally thought! I thought there might be …
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