Archive for the "Web Development" Category

DLGuard is a download protection and payment processing script that simplifies the delivery of your digital products.

The screen shots above is a test product I created to demonstrate the features of DLGuard. I used the PayPal Sandbox to make test purchases to access the download page.

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During my research into PHP support ticket systems, I narrowed down my list of potential scripts to the following systems:

Kayako – Very expensive but has the most features and best looking interface
osTicket – Free and open source, great interface but no theme customisation support
Maian Support… Read more… – Cheap

It is official! Microsoft just launched an IE6 Countdown web site to educate users on why they should not use Internet Explorer 6 any longer.

I have stopped supporting Internet Explorer 6 since Internet Explorer 8 was released. With Internet Explorer 9 releasing this year, there really isn’t any reason … Read more…

I just discovered that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has been added to Windows Update. I received an alert to install it this morning. I hope the launch of version 8 means the death of version 6. Usually, most people only use the latest 2 versions of Internet Explorer. When Internet … Read more…

I am creating a PHP script to automatically change my Twitter account’s background image and profile image. So far, the code is working for the background image change but Twitter’s servers seem to be slow in recognizing the changes.

I have submitted a report to the Twitter API team about … Read more…

Oempro 4 is the latest version of Octeth’s popular PHP/MySQL email marketing application. I have been using Oempro 3 for a couple of years and I was really looking forward to version 4 because the previous version could not import content from RSS feeds. The new Oempro 4 features are … Read more…

I started encoding PHP files of my site, Oasis Fanatic, a few years back when it got hacked. Thankfully, the hacker did not deface my web site or damage my database. He or she just wanted to use my web server to attack another web server.

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In my tutorial on how to display twitter status messages in WordPress, I used my own avatar picture beside the speech bubble. I have not found a way to retrieve my Twitter avatar from Twitter. Hopefully, I will figure out how to do it in the near future.

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PNG logos are great for backgrounds with more than 1 colour or if your logo is displayed on different backgrounds. They blend in perfectly no matter what you put it over. Here’s an example of transparent PNG logos in action on my web site Oasis Fanatic.

Notice how my … Read more…

This picture is aligned to the left of my content. Usually we display pictures to the left or right and have our sentences wrap around it. Try to make your paragraphs longer or reduce the size of the picture to make it look good when wrapped around the text.

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Web application development is the process and practice of developing web applications. Although there are a lot of free and commercial web applications available in the market, there will be situations where none of them will meet your unique needs. Therefore, developing a web application either from scratch or from … Read more…

What Does the X in XHTML Mean?

Most of us are familiar with HTML – the markup language that websites are written in. However, although it’s been around for a long time, we might not know as much about XHTML. What’s the “X” stand for? XHTML is an acronym for … Read more…

Launching a website is one of the single most important tactics you can use to increase your visibility, accessibility and sales. That is providing that it is done correctly and that you have people who know what they are doing build and create your website. This is where confusion sets … Read more…

If you’re depend solely on your web host to do your daily backups, you are risking your web site’s very existence. Most web hosts only keep your web site backups for a day. This practice seems fine most of the time. What I am afraid of is when an inept … Read more…