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So what I really need is some good Salmon…

I went out shopping last weekend with my grandmother as she was out for a visit, and we did a LOT of grocery shopping. What was the one thing I could really go for we didn’t get? Some salmon. Course, living in northern Idaho, finding said salmon isn’t exactly the easiest thing in [...]

So there is no peace in the world…

Sorry for the melodramatic intro, but I couldn’t think of a more fitting title to what I’m going to talk about today. As many of you have probably heard by now, there was a bombing in London. I’ve been reading up on it as I get the chance, visiting sites like News.Com’s Coverage and [...]

So power outages are interesting…

I don’t know what’s been up with the weather around here as of late, but it’s been very very unpredictable. We’ll go from very hot weather one hour, to thunder, lightning, and rain the next hour… Almost reminds me of living on the Puget Sound. Only major difference being that what we call [...]

So you asked for it…

People have asked why I wasn’t posting for a while, and I feel it’s only fair to say something on that subject. Main reason being, I was simply busy. Yeah, I know, it’s a copout, but it’s sadly the truth. I’d go to work, get home, and just want to chill out [...]

Load Time

A very common thing these days is to have on a dynamic page is a “load time” or “how long it took PHP to process your websites code”. This time is typically generated in fractions of seconds for most people’s websites, and is a statistic that PHP developers like to know so that they are [...]

Dynamic Images

Ever since I added them to my website, they’ve probably been the number 1 most requested item to be turned into a tutorial, so here I am making good on all my promises, and teaching people how to create Dynamically Generated images using nothing but PHP, the GD libraries, and some good ol’ fashion know [...]

PHP Primer

So you want to finally make life easier on yourself and learn PHP eh? Congratulations, not only will PHP help your website become something more than the sum of it’s parts, but it will make your life a lot easier! But before we begin, lets get a couple things out of the way.

You [...]

W3C Standards Vs IE

If there is anything that’s more annoying in the CSS universe, I don’t know what it is. CSS is a very simple tool for the most part that can be used to create some very complex results. However, when it comes to the way that Internet Explorer (IE) handles stylesheets versus every other browser on [...]

An Introduction

So you’re ready to get into Cascading StyleSheets (CSS) in a big way huh? Are you sure? This is afterall a major step forward in your web design career and it’s not a jump typically suited for the faint at heart. Well alright then, if you insist, lets start dipping into your first bits of [...]

A Brief History

In the beginning, websites were a simple affair consisting of long straight forward pages which you had to scroll quite a ways to be able to get to the navigation of the site. And you know what? It worked for the time. Then came frames, and it seemed as though frames would become the be [...]