Putting text over image or pictures is a good way to give simple title information to that image or declare copyrights without tampering with the image itself. Real texts on an image with CSS This lovely image gladly demonstrates how I (this text) can be flying over her face. It’s very kind of her but …
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CSS itself is an important part of web page design, but just the bone of it. Without pictures and photos, CSS is not more than just paragraphs of texts. To embed a picture or photos of yours in background, you need a simple CSS rule: background. Say you have a nice picture named mypic.jpg that …
Populating a drop down list control <select> from a php array is easy, the following function would do it with a breeze. Assuming an array of IT companies: $companies = array( ‘Microsoft’ => 1, ‘Google’ => 2, ‘Apple’ => 3 ); Feed it as a parameter to the php function below: function generateSelect($name = ”, …
In pure CSS solutions, a double border can be achieved via either a combination of single borders or a single double border style. 2 single borders The HTML: <div class="wrap-1"> <div class="wrap-2"> </div> </div> The CSS: .wrap-1 { border:1px solid blue; padding:1px; /* how far away 2 borders are drawn, remove this line to make …
If you are going to make part of the page totally transparent, there are essentially 3 CSS ways to achieve element transparency: opacity:0 (needs 2 more hacks for different browsers) visibility:hidden display:none Bob, the man! Let me take the example of Bob sitting in a chair to explain how these styles are different from each …
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Let’s face it, the native implementations of file uploading control of HTML form is ugly, throughout most of the browsers, and not consistent at all. Plus, <input type=”file” … /> just doesn’t play by quite a few of the CSS input styling rules such as border and background, making it a even bigger challenge. Now …
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Well, just came across a rather insightful post by ronburk at Webmaster World, which by the way, is probably the most resourceful place for any veteran webmaster. Consumer behavioral analysis is one of the most important part of any marketing campaigns in any industry. The better you get to know your customers, the better you …
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One of the guys started a thread complaining about his internet connection: Is it just me or is half the internet down? Hilarious!
Consider a PSD wordpress theme design with a blog post title like this: Apparently there’s a whole image background on the page instead of a solid color wherein the page title falls into, making the situation a little more complicated. Because if it’s just a solid color, I can simply do the following to achieve …
A tiny little quick tip for javascript beginners. While you still can execute javascript code upon page loading completion with: <body onload="jsFunc();"> You can just attach or define an onload event to body in the normal code flow: window.onload = function() { jsFunc(); }
When I’m coding for a new sub site where I need to show the local time of mine and my developers’ wherever the visitors are. Things get a little bit more tricky. Time basics in JavaScript and PHP To offset time zone differences in calculation, both JavaScript and PHP specs have time stamps representing the …
In JavaScript, you initiate an array of 3 elements by: var myArray = new Array(3); Or: var myArray = [”, ”, ”]; And then to populate them with some values, you need: for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) { myArray[i] = i; } This is pretty much a single dimensional array. To …
Checkboxes is probably one of the most frequently used form controls which come handy in dealing with one to many relationships. The multiple selective nature of HTML form checkboxes require a convenient way for PHP to process multiple checkbox values, ideally in a single array. By default, each and every HTML input control including checkboxes …
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Restricting directory access might be one of the most frequently used .htaccess techniques out there. As a site grows, there always are some areas that you don’t want visitors to look at such as merchandise warehouse where you store digital products for sale. You want a programmed server-side script to serve the download after confirming …
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One of the best things I love Apache web server is that it instantly enables you to share files and resources via plain web directory index listing without having to spend time making any fancy web pages to serve them. However, there are times when you need to hide things out. To disable web directory …
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To successfully run a query with text data containing single quotes ‘ as well as other SQL reserved punctuations, AND to prevent SQL injections, you will always want to escape the text values before using them in a SQL query. In PHP 4.0, we are stuck with mysql_real_escape_string. With PHP 5.0, mysqli:prepare and mysqli::real_escape_string are …
SQL injection is a typical code injection attack that exploits weaknesses of application in the database layer. SQL injection vulnerability is created when one scripting or programming language is embedded in or used as input in another with failure to verify the legality or filter for potential dangerous codes. SQL injections are possible when input …
As Web becomes one of the most fundamental means of communication and information delivery nowadays, and as its usage reaches population level in regards to that when the televisions prevailed, the protection of it has never been so critical. SANS institute in association with US government and various other weighty contributors, most of whom IT …
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Bad News: Partners program manager of Rackspace Cloud, Kenard Horsley informed me via email that they have made the decision to end the $25 discount for Cloud Sites on 18th, March (2010) and instead focus on Cloud Servers promotion. The promo code (Promo Code ID=134) will be effectively invalidated by then. The Promo or Referral …
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