Now that you’ve got jEdit and Infoviewer working together to use Firefox to preview your web pages or code, it gets tedious quite quickly to go all the way thru the menu’s just to load a page. So, let’s setup a button on the toolbar in jEdit to launch our preview. Open jEdit and go [...]

jEdit is my code editor of choice. I’m running it on Windows 7. Here’s some quick instructions for setting up the preview of your code or web pages to launch Firefox instead of  jEdit’s own internal browser. First, install the InfoViewer plugin from within jEdit. Open jEdit choose Plugins | Plugin Options under InfoViewer | [...]

Let’s walk thru how to use David’s Batch Processor add on for Gimp to batch process images in a snap! We’re going to focus on batch resizing of an entire directory of images but there are a lot of options available in David’s Batch Processor, such as turn, blur, color, resize, crop, sharpen, and rename. [...]

Here in Part 3 we will add Javascript to verify that a Contact Name was filled in before the form goes over to PHP to be processed. This is called client-side validation, since the checks are taking place within the same web page as the form. Again, it’s just a quick check, so we’re not [...]

In Part 1 we setup the actual contact form using basic html form tags and form elements. Here in Part 2, we are going to setup the PHP code to receive the data (or info) from that contact form. Open up your html editor and create a new PHP page. Enter the following code bits, [...]

This weekend I did some volunteer work for a local non-profit by constructing an online form in php that would email from their website. I’m going to simplify that form and walk thru a tutorial to help you build your own online php forms. Part 1 will walk you thru setting up the actual form [...]

Sure, using stylesheets is the way to go, but what about those times when you just need to format some text inline. For example, whenever I list something on eBay, the “Description” box will allow for fancy html / css markup but you have to do it by hand. And no linking to a css. [...]

Developed this php script for one of my clients eCommerce sites. They needed their shopping cart to calculate shipping costs based on the weight of the item and the destination. And all US shipping was to be Free. Best application for this code is in Click Cart Pro version 6+ but here is the stand [...]

There is a pesky display bug that will render a “peek-a-boo” effect when you layer div containers in CSS. When this bug is at it’s best, content that should stream after a previous div container, instead partially hides behind it. This is how my home page displays without the position: relative in the post div [...]