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10 Things To Do When Launching A Site

It always seems to be a hectic and rushed time when launching a new site. So having a checklist of things to tick off before launching can help save your sanity and avoid you launching a site that’s missing something important. Find out the 10 most important things to check for.

Using PHP to connect to SFTP

When programming in a business enviroment you often have to send and recieve files of data (data feeds) from other organisations or departments within your company. To handle this quickly and securely you can use the existing FTP protocol and its secure sibling sFTP. Today we will learn how easy it is to send/recieve files over sFTP automatically, allowing your scripts to run completly autonomously.

Asynchronous Virtual Pageviews with Google Analytics

If you have moved over to the new Asynchronous Google Analytics (GA) tracking code you may have trouble finding how to create virtual pageviews as the manual seems to push you more towards using Events instead.

5 Advanced Text Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn 5 advanced text editing keyboard shortcuts to increase your efficiency and speed in text editors and word processors.

Get the headers of a HTTP request with PHP

Need to check that a URL is valid? Or get the last-modified date, or the charset, or the ETag of a page? Here is a simple bit of code to help you do just that by returning the headers of a HTTP request for you.

How-to: Create PDF preview images in PHP – Part 2

A follow up to creating thumbnail previews of PDF documents quickly and easy with this basic walk-through from setup to code samples.

How-to: Create PDF preview images in PHP

Create thumbnail previews of PDF documents quickly and easy with this basic walk-through from setup to code samples.

Quick Code: Get the domain name in JS

When your developing a site or online application that uses a lot of XML HTTP Requests (XHR) it’s generally a good idea to use a full URL when creating a request. If you then try to re-use your code across multiple sites and domains, you will find you get errors due to posting to a different domain than the current site.

Things to think about when designing a logo

Here is a quick post which takes a look at some of the things I take into consideration when designing a logo, I’d say also looks at some of the considerations for print as well, plus it also contains what i think makes a good logo.

Javascript Array Functions

Without using a Javascript library such as JQuery, there are very few functions built into Javascript to deal with arrays. Here are a few of my own that often come in handy when working on projects.