My PHP scripts have a number of features that are built into the script itself making it far easier to use. Here I explain how to use my PayPal IPN script to offer discounts to anyone knowing a specific discount “code” who enters it during the promotion period to which that discount applies. Offering Discounts

One of my extremely rare articles on using Excel. This one explains how to transform your spreadsheet content to make the rows into columns and the columns into rows. Swapping Rows with Columns

One of the easiest ways of fitting lots of info into a small space in your web page is if you reuse the same part of the page to display different content at different times. Here’s how to set up a JavaScript that will perform the content swaps for you. Dynamic Page Content using Links

While it is possible to store some data in cookies to pass from one web page to another there is a limit to how much data that cookies can hold. That’s why using sessions where the cookie only needs to hold the session id is the better option. In this article we look at just [...]

Yet another Head First book. This particular one doesn’t take a systematic approach to teaching the basics of the languages, it jumps right in with simple but useful applications and provides you with information on how to use the most useful parts of the languages first. It’s a pity that the Regular Expression section of [...]

The style used in the books in the “Head First” range doesn’t appeal to everyone since there are people who prefer a more conventional learning approach where they will forget 90% of the material to this alternative method where they whould remember 90%. Some of what this particular book says about using a pencil and [...]

I mentioned back in mid January about all the garbage ebooks that I keep coming across on beginners HTML – ones more appropriate to 1998 than to 2009. Well now I have written my own ebook for beginners with 30 pages of information on getting started with modern semantic HTML. Unlike all those garbage ebooks [...]

Static HTML pages is fine for a small site that only has a handful of pages but as your site grows bigger the ability to incorporate common elements into all the pages in a way that can be easily amended for all pages at once becomes more important. This can be achieved using server side [...]

A drop down list is one of the easiest of input fields to validate in JavaScript since you already know all the values that the field can have and presumably all or all but one of them are valid. Where you need to require that visitors make a selection is the only time you would [...]

Microsoft Word contains a really useful feature to save your needing to retype long sections of text that commonly occur in your documents. This feature is called AutoText.

The steps to set up an email account for any domain that you have that has cpanel available on the hosting is relatively straightforward. Creating an Email Account using cPanel

This new version of my tooltip script has extra processing specifically for those web pages you want to scroll horizontally rather than vertically. Extended Tooltips Enhanced