With the new Web look spreading through every site new and old, there are a lot of times when you want to use absolutely positioned pngs on your site. The 2 problems we face. The first one is that the PNG format is not fully supported on all browsers that are in use today. The way we handle that is with a simple include into the main template file of your site. Here is where you can get the javascript file click here. Include this file into the header of your main template file: <!--[if lt IE 7]> <script type="text/javascript" src="/resources/unitpngfix/unitpngfix.js"></script> <![endif]--> This is a hack to tell the browser to include the”unitpngfix.js” file if the browser is IE 7 or below. The next problem is that IE positions things differently. We will be using a similar hack to go around this problem. Here is how the code will look. <!-- Floating image --> <!--[if lt IE 7]> <div style="position:relative; margin-left:-800px;...

This tutorial explains for you the basics of MySQL in combination with Php. This tutorial is also written for people who absolutely don’t have any experience with MySQL. This tutorial was written by CrystalEdge. MySQL is a kind of textual database. This database is divided in table that have rows and columns. Most of the time you store similar data of the same category into the same table. By using a query, you are able to store information into the database. For people who don’t have any Php experience I suggest you to read CrystalEdge’s Basic Php Tutorialbefore starting on this one. Read full tutorial ->

 Have you ever wanted to create vector or bitmap graphics but did’t have all of the expensive programs to work in? Well I got wind of this website/project called Aviary which allows you to do just that.  Aviary has created applications mimicking all of the popular graphics programs out there today. I will list the different programs, what they do and some examples of work created by people. I find it quite amazing what you can do with these programs — and they are all free.  Aviary uses names of bird species for each of their programs. Image Editor (Similar to Photoshop, Paint Shop, Gimp, etc.) which is called Pheonix and is depicted by a very nice Peonix icon. Pheonix has all of the basic things you need to edit an image which include: clone tool, magic wand, filters, selection tools, smudge, layers and image resizing. To Give Pheonix (image editor) a try click here. Here are some of the popular images that I really like. These were created in Pheonix by regular users:   Apple...

Creating a good website with wordpress is very easy once you have the right direction. In this article I will give you the basic steps to starting up a website/blog with WordPress. First things first before we begin. WordPress is not the ony content management system for blogs/websites — there are many others. I prefer wordpress over anything else due to it’s simplicity and ease of updating and adding plug in functionality. WordPress was originally designed for the creation of blogs. A lot of websites are centered around the idea of a blog which is new articles published frequently. For most websites to do well they need to provide constant valuable information at a decent rate. If you put up a couple of pages on a website and leave it at that, most likely your website will drop from the search engines and disappear. I love the idea of building a website around WordPress and I am working on numerous other websites using it. WordPress Basics A WordPress website consists of these...