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 | [...]

I notice that most of my winter, aka “snow”, pictures have this dull gray color to them. For quick white balance correction in Gimp, open the image. Now from the menu on the Image, choose COLOR | AUTO | WHITE BALANCE Gimp’s auto white balance has been pretty reliable to quickly set the correct tones [...]

I’ve been cleaning up some junk files off my linux laptop and deleted files from various directories with no problem. Well, then I go to Empty the Trash Can when I get an error message – something about can’t delete those files due to permissions. Did some google searching and found this helpful tip from [...]

Once you start getting to work on a complex graphic, you’ll want to use layers. Here’s what I’ve found works best for me and seems to flow easily in GIMP. You can start with your own image, or download my classroom graphic here: classroom_small_zip. To view the Layer’s dialog box, press CTRL-L or from the [...]

For an even easier way to crop images in GIMP, use the Selection Tool: 1) Click and drag a selection over the area that you want to remain as your image. 2) From the Image Menu, choose Crop To Selection 3)You now have a quickly cropped picture in GIMP!

First download any True Type Font to your Desktop. If you download a zip file, use ARK to unzip/extract it. ARK is usually at Applications | Accessories. After extraction, you will have a file with the extension .ttf If your extraction left you with file(s) that have multiple underscores or spaces, right-click the file choose [...]

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 [...]