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Entries from July 2007

CSS Shaded Text

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

A great little css trick is the shaded-text attribute. This allows you to create a shadow to the text you want to apply this attribute too. Many of us might use an image for this but this little trick saves a lot of time, looks great and gives you one less image file to download.Simply [...]

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Tags: General

Editing CSS

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve recently started using a css editor by MacRabbit. It’s mac only but has become one of my facvourite applications for editing css files. One of the best features is that you can open any web-site you want to edit into it’s browser. You then extract the css files and start editing. It overrides the [...]

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Tags: General

Form Mail in PHP

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

FormMail is a powerful PHP script provided by Tectite (http://www.tectite.com/formailpage.php)free for anyone to use. I’ve used it in some projects and it’s a very usefull script, has a lot of features but yet easy to implement. Tectite takes security very seriously so the form has a built in “Version Checker” and it emails you everytime [...]

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Tags: General

Two Dollar Hosting by No Uptime

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

No Uptime has been hosting web-sites in 1969, and I don’t think that their features have changed much since then either.
Here are some of the features that they offer on their $2.00 per month plan:

200Kb of Storage
10Mb of Bandwidth
PHP 4, 5, and 6
MySQL, SQL and Oracle
Dedicated Dedication
Host up to 6.8 Sites
Free Identity Theft

If that’s not [...]

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Tags: Hosting

Free Flash video player

July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

If you want to implement video streaming (progressive or
true streaming) on your website this freebie is great. 
FlowPlayer is a free Flash video player. You can easily
embed it into HTML pages to play FLV files. FlowPlayer supports
progressive downloading and true streaming.It supports playlists,
video with thumbnails, skins and so on.
The new Version has some pretty cool new [...]

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Tags: Flash