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    Tips For Better Page URLs

    Page URLs are probably more important than most people realize. No one wants to deal with marathon URLs and meaningless querystrings. Here area few tips for keeping your URLs respectable. Lose the "WWW" The four most useless URL characters are always "www.". If you want...

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    MooTools Link Fading

    We all know that we can set a different link color (among other properties) on the hover event, but why not show a little bit more dynamism by making the original color fade to the next? Using MooTools 1.2, you can achieve that effect. The MooTools...

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    Format Date Fields Using MySQL DATE_FORMAT()

    I use MySQL DATE and DATETIME fields almost as much as VARCHAR fields. I use them mostly to track record creation, record updates, and record expiration dates. The default date format in MYSQL is: When I pull this information into the page, I want to...

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    6 Reasons I’m Glad I Joined Twitter

    For the longest time I refused to do the Twitter thing. Looking back it seems stupid but I just would not join the craze. Two months and 350 updates later, I'm a proud card-carrying Twitter fanboy. Here are 6 reasons I'm glad I...

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    Implement jQuery-like “Click” Syntax In MooTools 1.2

    I've updated this post's content per reader comments. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! While I prefer the MooTools syntax over the jQuery syntax, I do respect the jQuery syntax. Here's a quick way to make your MooTools look a little like jQuery by implementing...

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    My Worst CSS Mistakes

    I've always taken a lot of pride in the fact that I've taught myself most of what I know. It started when I was 13 and taught myself HTML, then CSS, then JavaScript, then PHP, and the process continues today with MooTools, jQuery, and whatever...

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    Create Image Thumbnails Using PHP

    I create a lot of photo galleries for my customers. A website is meant to be a marketing tool and what better way to market your product than showing numerous pictures of the product? One issue that comes up often is that the customer...

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    IMDB Grabber Class by Fabian Beiner

    One of my readers, Fabian Beiner, took my PHP-based IMDB Grabber script a step further and made it into a useful class. The class also has the ability to grab more information my script did. Check it out! The PHP Thanks to Fabian for sharing!

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    Fix Anchor URLs Using MooTools 1.2

    The administrative control panel I build for my customers features FCKEditor, a powerful WYSIWYG editor that allows the customer to add links, bold text, create ordered lists, and so on. I provide training and documentation to the customers but many times they simply forget to...

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    An Open Letter to You, Webmaster

    Dear Webmaster, I've recently been contacted by your customer with regards to my web services. They mentioned that they were unhappy with your work and would like for me to create a new website for them. I'm writing this letter to thank you! First, Webmaster, I'd...