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Book Review – Sexy Web Design

philip beel 2 Responses 01 Jun 2009

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I have just finished This fantastic book by Elliot Jay Stocks Entitled “Sex Web Design” I was so impressed with It I felt it deserved a review.

Im not usually a fan of web design books. I have had bad experiences in the past with web development literature, which I found to be quickly out dated and very cumbersome to navigate through. However this book has a refreshing take on how to enlighten and engage with the reader. The book is a great resource for web designers of any caliber. It is packed full of useful suggestions and examples of web tools which will help you improve you design skills. Even once you have finished reading the book is a great point of reference to help you direct your creativity. 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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