Validating an email address in PHP

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008

A small tutorial and example script to validate the format of an e-mail address. This is very useful when capturing e-mail addresses from visitors.

Posted May 13, 2008 07:00 PM | Comments (3) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

Moving email from Microsoft Outlook to Apple Mail using MessageSave

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008

We're currently moving from PC to Mac and part of this process involves transferring our email from Microsoft Outlook 2004 to Apple Mail. This is by no means a straight forward process when you have 2GB worth of email spanning 7 years! That was until we came across a tool named MessageSave by TechHit! Read on...

Posted Apr 4, 2008 09:12 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

UK Post Code Distance Calculator using PHP/MySQL

SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008

Ever wondered how websites can tell you how far it is from one UK post code to another? This tutorial will tell you everything you need to know about adding this cool feature to your website using PHP and MySQL. Warning - although there is complex maths involved, no clever maths knowledge is required.

Posted Mar 30, 2008 06:36 PM | Comments (4) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

Bye bye Bobby. We'll miss you...

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008

As far as website accessibility tools go, Bobby by Watchfire WebXact is one of the most popular and, in our opinion one of the best. We use it all the time to test our websites for accessibility compliance. Sadly, Bobby has been taken underground and since 1 February 2008 it's no longer available to the public. What a shame.

Posted Feb 27, 2008 02:27 PM | Comments (1) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

Niche Websites - Part 1: Identifying a Niche

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2008

This is the first part in our series of niche website design articles. The purpose of a niche website is to get lots of targeted traffic and make money from pay-per-click advertising or affiliate schemes. Following the launch of 2 niche websites; Telescope Advice and Lawn Mower Advice, we are discussing the techniques used to identify a niche in this first of our five part article.

Posted Feb 9, 2008 03:55 PM | Comments (7) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

We need your help choosing our next logo...

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2008

It's now 2008 and we've been in business for 7 years, so we feel it's time for a change. We value our blog readers' opinions and would like to see what you guys all think about a few logo ideas we've been playing with.

Posted Jan 12, 2008 10:09 PM | Comments (7) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

How wide should you go?

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2007

One of the first things to decide when designing a website is how wide you're going to make it. When using a fixed width (as opposed to a fluid layout) we need to decide exactly how many pixels we're going to make it. Unfortunately, like most web design techniques, it's not an exact science therefore we utter the all too familiar words of "developing for the majority". We begin...

Posted Dec 11, 2007 02:40 PM | Comments (15) | Permalink | Send to a Friend

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