Web Design

Whether you are a Bloger or building a online store controlling how your images are displayed for your visitors is a good way to highlight and add interest. When you apply CSS styles to images you want to do so in a way that limits which <img> tag gets that extra special feature. In our […]

With so many people using twitter we thought we would go over some of the things you need to consider when designing a Twitter Background for your Profile Pages. Adding additional information in a background image can help your twitter followers understand who you are and what you like. If you are designing a personal […]

PayPal Credit Card Transaction Services provides a variety of different methods for you to get paid by credit card. In addition to setup procedures for payment transactions there are 2 basic ways to get funds sent to you. You should understand this before you pick a method of transaction. For a small number of transactions […]

There are a number of tools that you should add to FireFox to make your life a little easier. Probably the most important and mandatory is FireBug, This tool allows you to view the page source and examine the content of any page in a split screen or a popout window.  Syntax Highlighting is one […]

ColorBlender is a free service that provides help for the color matching impaired. How often have you got stuck trying to find a complementary color to use in your layouts. Well no more if you use ColorBlender. The service is simple to use just slide the color adjusters to find the right primary color then […]

PHP Thumbnailer Class v2.0 A PHP image manipulation class, aimed at generating thumbnails. It features the ability to resize by width, height, and percentage, create custom crops, or square crops from the center, rotate the image, and create AppleTM-style reflections. It also features the ability to perform multiple manipulations per instance (also known as chaining), […]

When laying out your site you can sometimes get lost when it comes to choosing colors that match. ColorMixers provides an easy way to generate a relative pallet of colors based on a single base color. The process is pretty simple either enter the RGB values or use the slider to set the base color […]

When you are developing a PHP based website there are many times when you end up repeating yourself for various simple things. A config file that is linked to in the header area of your php files can help you use shortcuts and also reduce the time it takes to make changes if you move […]

When designing your website it is a great idea to turn your template design into manageable sections by separating your header, footer, sidebars and maybe menus or other constant areas. The idea is that headers and footers will not often change. The same is true for sidebars that often have the same content across your […]

PHPXref is a Perl application that helps you document a large php project. By Large that means scripts that require more then a couple pages and files of code. Because it is so simple to use you could probably download it and get it working before you can read the rest of this article but […]