Now there’s a lot of code involved and the menu created doesn’t really fit normal usability standards, but the end result is cool.
Happy July 4th to all you guys.
Source: Accessible expanding and collapsing menu [456 Berea Street]
Posted in CSS, JavaScript.
By Kevin Lloyd
– July 4, 2007
We have another member of the Get Paid To Blog family: Bloggerwave. How does Bloggerwave differ? Well, not by much, but they are still a great service. You sign up and wait 72 hours until your blog is approved. After this, you log on and log for opportunities. Then you just blog your heart away as you usually do.
Posts must stay up for at least 30 days, they have to be relevant, etc. All in all, it’s a great service. Give Bloggerwave a try.
Sponsored Post
Posted in General.
By Kevin Lloyd
– July 4, 2007
For WYSIWYG editing nothing is better than Dreamweaver. A lot of people will disagree but I don’t care 
. Dreamweaver has served me well for a number of years. Every time I had a web project to do, I made sure to set apart a certain amount for development tools. These included Macromedia (haven’t upgraded since Adobe bought them) Dreamweaver, Flash and a very old version of Photoshop 7.0 that still does tons more than I need.
But what does one do when you’re away from home and don’t have your normal tools? Or when you’re just dead broke? We go open source and freeware, that’s what we do. For HTML editing, I haven’t found another free tool that rises to the level that Nvu has risen to. They haven’t released a new version since 2005, but it’s still great at what it does.
For image editing, people swear by GIMP, but I haven’t really been able to rap my mind around the whole thing. The inner workings still escape me. For editing I use Paint .NET.
Source: Nvu (pronounced N-view) [NVU]
Source: Paint.NET v3.08 [Paint .NET]
Posted in General.
By Kevin Lloyd
– July 3, 2007
Almost two months ago I mentioned that I was looking into some PHP Frameworks I must say, that I’ve procrastinated with the whole thing. Since then I’ve caught up on a few. A friend of mine tried introducing me to Code Igniter framework. I didn’t really get a good feel for it. He mentioned that it was more powerful and flexible, but I’m lazy, so I was looking for a lazy man PHP Framework.
Here’s a bit of background. I know you’ve heard of Ruby on Rails (RoR). I mean who hasn’t? Well, I’m one of those guys who never paid it much mind, and for that I was wrong . RoR introduces the MVC model: Model-View-Controller pattern. What these Frameworks do is bring this pattern to the PHP platform and I love them for it.
CakePHP is a bit simpler than Code Igniter at first, so that’s what drew me to it. However, this weekend I stumbled upon the Baking capability of CakePHP and I was hooked. I have an upcoming project, which I’ve decided to use CakePHP on. I will keep you posted on how things go.
This is what helped me make my decision: CodeIgniter vs. CakePHP
Posted in CakePHP, PHP.
By Kevin Lloyd
– July 2, 2007
Ok,
This weekend has been kind of rough in terms of information. I’ve been playing with a lot of new toys (CakePHP, AutoHotKey, ScriptALicious) so my brain is kind of fried right now. I promise, I’ll report when I sort things out.
Posted in General.
By Kevin Lloyd
– July 1, 2007
MightyAdsense – Automatically Inject Ads
The MightyAdsense Plugin has many useful options. You can store up to 10 different sets of ads for various locations on your blog. You can insert them into your template by calling one simple function instead of having to paste entire code snippets for the ads. Since all your code for the ads are stored in Wordpress, it makes changing the format of an ad a breeze.
But here’s where the magic comes in. You can chose certain ads to be automatically inserted into posts and pages. One your homepage, category list, etc; where you list many different posts on one page, you can chose to insert specific ads into certain ads on the page. Namely the first, second, and third posts. This is the set up I have for my first post:
The second post I leave blank, but have the following on the third:
Now this is what I have on every page/post:
PayPerPost Says No Ads
PayPerPost has recently modified their Terms of Service:
Inline Ads and Links. There are to be no third party links, ads or other detractors located within the sponsored post.
Posted in Blog, Money, PHP.
By Kevin Lloyd
– June 24, 2007
Ever wanted to find out what your users have been up to before they came to your site? Yep, you now have that power. I can see that little twinkle in your eyes now. You’re thinking that this is just insane and you can only imagine the power that now lies at your fingertips. Well, it’s not that easy.
How It Works
First of all, stop freaking out. We’re not exactly stealing your browser’s history. We’re doing a bit of guessing. It can only be run against a defined list of sites. This means that you can only check whether someone has visited a site, say Disney.com, but you can’t ask their browser for a list of the sites they’ve visited. That information is still kept confidential by the browser.
What we do is use some JavaScript to check the color of the links on a page. Ahhh, I see the lil’ light bulb going on over your head right now. Yep folks, that’s all. Nothing fancy. So rest at ease, your browser history is safe for the most part.
SpyJax: Go check it out, and figure out how to stop it, or at least limit the way people use it on you.
Posted in Ajax, JavaScript.
By Kevin Lloyd
– June 5, 2007
Now I’ve never really been a Photoshop guy. I just don’t have an eye for that stuff, even if it may be very basic. What’s my solution? My Cool Button. This service allows you to created, not to bad if I do say so myself, Web 2.0 buttons on the fly.
A lil’ PHP and GD2 sure does go a long way these days.
Posted in Ajax, CSS, General, PHP.
By Kevin Lloyd
– June 4, 2007
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