My Journal

For many the code I’ll be putting on this post will appear pretty simple and it is. Yet not everyone is well versed in programming or they are just starting out and still learning the small tips and tricks that many of us take for granted. So here’s a little trick to make the dates on your website a bit more dynamic using PHP.

I’m using PHP because it’s still the most widely used server side language and if you get the theory behind the PHP version it’s usually simple enough to transfer that to a different language even if you need a little help from Google.

Continue reading “Displaying dates the easy way”

After having written a guest post for the guys over at One Extra Pixel I was suprised to get a few more offers to guest write. At first it seemed a lot of work so declined some offers but when Jacob at Six Revisions asked I simply couldn’t say no.

So after some hard work writing (as it takes me some time to write) the post I wrote for Six Revision is now live and concerns the best practices for hints and validation in web forms. I hope you check it out and find it useful.

I have to say thanks to Jacob for the better title as after writing the post I was struggling on the title.

Since redesigning my website a few months back I’ve been getting more people email me through my contact form. The numbers aren’t huge but every now and again I get an email and I tend to respond to all emails that aren’t clearly spam or SEO sales pitches. There are however some emails that I would maybe usually respond to if they hadn’t already instantly pissed me off.

These emails tend to go a little like this:

i want a web designer. email me?

Er, no thanks.

Continue reading “When you email, try doing it properly please”

Yesterday was the Boagworld 200th episode and I managed to tune into some of it but missed parts here and there due to work. For those unaware of Boadworld it’s a weekly podcast for webbies and on their 200th episode they made it a big occasion by holding a live, visual, 12 hour marathon.

Due to work I had the video screen right in the bottom corner of my screen with the chat channel hidden which I’m glad of as it seems that when any female members of our community appeared the chat channel regressed to a forum of sexist and offensive comments about the females in question. As Rachel Andrew mentions some comments went as far as to say that these women’s appearance on the show was due to their good looks alone.

Continue reading “What not to do when meeting a pretty female web designer”

JavaScript was and still is one of those coding languages that always seemed a little too difficult to get your head around and do anything truly useful with it. Times have changed and with the availability of numerous JavaScript frameworks the one time chore of adding interactivity to your website has been made easier, even exciting.

After skirting around a few frameworks in the early days I eventually made the conscious decision to stick with JQuery. Rather than use the first framework that came up when searching for a specific technique I decided to stick with one and hope to learn this. Usually I’d prefer to learn JavaScript itself but other than learning some of the basics it was just too much to cope with.

Continue reading “JavaScript = JQuery”