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Accreditation and Developments in 09

philip beel No Responses 10 May 2009

Just a short update on how things are going in 2009. I have made a few enhancements to the website, as well as throwing around a few ideas for a redesigns. I was quite seriously contemplating starting again from scratch as part of a re-branding exercise, however I found my work accredited in a UX Booth article which really made me reconsider the situation. This coupled with reading a fantastic article on smashing magazine that basically states good designers redesign, great designers realign, got me to thinking, my best bet would be to enhance the package I already have and put my niggles aside. Continue reading

Truncate Text In PHP the Easy Way

philip beel 3 Responses 20 Mar 2009

Whilst looking for a way to truncate text in my content manager I thought about the best way to approach this. To begin with I thought it might be a good idea to use a method written into a class like this: Continue reading

How to Serialize and Unserialize POST Arrays using PHP

philip beel 6 Responses 02 Mar 2009

This tutorial will talk you through the basic steps involved in submitting a serialized array in a form using PHP. Although this can be a straightforward procedure there are a couple of pitfalls to be aware of. Continue reading

10 Web Blogs To Read In 2009

philip beel No Responses 10 Feb 2009

RSS has changed the way we interact and find information on the web. If you are a developer, designer, or web entrepreneur its worth having access to good feeds. They help to understand whats hot, whats not and where the industry is heading. Below I have put together anything but a concise list of my favorite RSS feeds. These are just a few that I have subscribed to and found to be extremely useful, if your looking for tech talk or just some really great web inspiration why not check them out;

I hope that they will be as useful to you are they are to me!

Ubiquity Could it be?

philip beel One Response 09 Feb 2009

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I have been playing around with a Firefox add-on called ubiquity just lately. Its been a lot of fun, and there has been a lot of noise over it in the web community. Continue reading

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About Philip Beel

Educated to degree level in Digital Media at Canterbury Christ Church University. I have over four years of commercial experience in front end web development. My disciplines include XHTML, CSS, PHP, MYSQL, Smarty and javascript. I am also a keen advocate of the jQuery framework.