I had a heck of a time installing the ioncube loader on bluehost and making it work for AOM’s shopping cart. But finally figured it out. If you are getting a message that ioncube must be installed try the following.

Step 1 - Go to ioncube.com and get the ppc64.zip linux version of the loader. […]

While searching for ways to make a cell phone call a phone number on a web page I found there is no official standard. The most common seems to use the anchor tag with href=”tel:9999999999″. It does work from my blackberry web browser. It can also work with an image of the phone number.

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Sometimes you need a form to self populate some of the values based on input of one field. For example you can save a user data entry of address information if an id number is provided in a change of address form. The data will still be able to be edited in the form […]

I discovered an amazing book last night. Andy Clarke’s “Transcending CSS” is a look to the future for web developers and designers. I only had about 20 minutes to do a rough read through but plan to devour it this weekend. His focus is on design aesthetics and allowing the content to determine the […]

I recently created a site with multiple links to swap images and text. Not only did the link have to change the image but it had to pass variables to other links so they could change the Large image and text. This got fairly complicated. So I thought I would put it out here […]

All of us who still prefer a basic text editor for our coding of webpages are always looking for something to minimize the repetitive tasks such as page structure. Normally we grab stuff from our existing libraries and begin stripping and rearanging and tearing apart the CSS.

But now there is a quick way to […]

Last night I was struggling with a menu and hover effects. After reading all the interesting tutorials about CSS Menus by various experts who all build their menus as list items.

I initially built the menu as an unordered list with li:hover effects. All worked well in Firefox but the li:hover is not supported in […]

Since many of my clients sell physical products I have learned to install and modify the OSCommerce ecommerce application on several websites. Out of the box, this is a very robust online storefront, complete with Administrators panels, a complete database for managing; Products, Product Categories, Customers, Shipping, Taxes, Communications, and other features which help […]

I recently implemented some software that required XML format text for input. The customers database was a mySQL database. So I scoured the web for an easy solution. I found a few that had errors and/or did not work. After examining these and reading the PHP manual a dozen times I hit upon a […]

If you run a large ecommerce store or bulletin board you may occasionally be plagued with the dreaded “userx has exceed the max_questions currently set at (some value)”. In my case my host limits the user mySQL queries per hour to 50000. Which sounds like a lot but when you consider an ecommerce […]