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Using HTML5 canvas

Unless you have been in a coma for the last couple of years you would have noticed the upturn in interest in HTML5 and the canvas tag. The Canvas API is a means of creating shapes, graphs and even...

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Ideas of March

It can be argued that blogging and blog commenting is on the wane because social media – in particular Twitter and Facebook – has captivated web users attention, but none of these services are in...

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Using JavaScript to create equal height columns

Creating websites with tables didn't have many advantages over using CSS, but the ability to easily create equal height columns was one of them. There are a small number of tried and tested CSS...

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Altering the read more link in Drupal 7

How to change the position of the read more link at the bottom of node teasers has been a discussion point for Drupal themers for years. Four Kitchens even created a module to add this functionality:...

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Creating a pull down (nested) menu in Drupal 7

Special note: Don't follow this tutorial just download and use the Menu Block module instead. Drupal was originally a developers toy but over the last few years the thrust of the CMS has been to try...

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Replace a form submit button with an image using just CSS

There are tons of articles out there on the subject of styling forms with individual web designers developing their own particular coding preferences over time. For developers and designers, creating...

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Review of HTML5 Canvas Libraries

There's been a buzz around HTML5 for some time now with many leading commentators in the online tech community heavily pushing the new standard. With the last version of HTML being released back in...

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Using JavaScript to emulate HTML5 placeholders in Internet Explorer

HTML5 is now the default choice of HTML version for most developers but poor support in Internet Explorer has proven to be a hindrance to the wider adoption of the language. This lack of native support...

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Redbridge College Workshop: Foundation Internet Marketing

Speakers Andy Walpole from Suburban Glory Web Design & Rob Keating from Offline to Online. Tuesday September 20th, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Are you starting a business or already running a business? Are you...

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An easy way to use the Twitter API

Twitter, surely, has had one of the most successful developer outreach programmes of all time. Their relaxed attitude to data access has meant that a myriad of superb side projects has sprung up and...

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An introduction to Deck JS

PowerPoint has been the choice of software for corporate presentations since the 1990s. Easy to use and configure, it takes real skill to mess a PowerPoint presentation up. However, for web coders...

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Barking and Dagenham Chamber of Commerce seminar: Practical Advice for...

Topics and speakers include: Search Engine Optimisation, Andy Walpole, Suburban Glory Web Design How to Maximise your Branding, Ray Calder, Acumen Design Simple tips to increase your £££ Flow and...

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Pushing CSS to its limits

As CSS3 roars ahead in spite of the old Internet Explorer legacy browsers acting like a drag weight on faster adoption, there have been some really fascinating experiments with CSS3 properties and...

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Some more tips on learning JavaScript

In February 2011 Think Vitamin published an article written by me entitled Tips on Learning JavaScript. In 2010 I had added learning JavaScript to my “things to do list” for that year, and the Think...

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Resources for learning CodeIgniter

It could be argued that CodeIgniter is the most popular Open Source PHP framework around. It certainly features heavily on developer and designer sites like Forrst. Written in OOP code it takes a...

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Using advanced JavaScript array methods

Advanced is an adjective used subjectively here because you may be already using the methods below on a regular basis, but in by using the term advanced I am referring to JavaScript from versions 1.6...

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Using PHP to parse XML, RSS or CVS files which are compressed with ZIP or GZIP

Reading and creating XML, RSS and CVS files is essential knowledge when it comes to using PHP because they are all formats commonly used for a wide range of purposes. I'm just in the middle of creating...

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Checking for unique values in a multidimensional array

There are lots of different solutions to this problem posted on forums all over the web. But here is a very simple solution I came up with the other day. Below was an array whose values were from a...

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Setting up Eclipse IDE for JavaScript and PHP development

Everybody has their own IDE of choice with Sublime Text seemingly the most popular at the moment. A good IDE should be solid, stable software with full features and UX which leaves you, the coder,...

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Using cookies instead of wp_localize_script()

Sometimes the most obvious solution isn't the one that comes to you first. wp_localize_script() is a wonderful little slice of Wordpress code that allows you to easily add PHP-created info into an...

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