I didn’t have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but while working on a site today I ran into a problem. There is an ad at the top of the design which tends [...]

Tags: advertising, delay javascript, javascript, loading time
Categories: Revenue Sources, Web Development

If you run a Wordpress blog, you will eventually want to make some modifications to your theme. Perhaps you want to show your tags, not just categories, perhaps you want the date in a different format, you might want to add the URL of the author to each post, there are a lot of things [...]

Tags: php, template tags, wordpress
Categories: Web Development

Every webmaster operating a blog will sooner or later notice that there are some websites out there that do nothing else than to copy contents of other websites and post them on their own. This is usually an automated process done with the use of a script and RSS news feeds. The script will check [...]

Tags: content copying, content thief, copygator, fair share, inbound links, links, web services, webmaster tips, webmasters
Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

Beginner article coming up, it’s time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or css, is the standard method of styling a webpage. In fact, you should have no styling in HTML whatsoever. HTML was not designed to be a presentation language, it’s more of a structural-semantic language. In other [...]

Tags: css, html
Categories: Web Development

If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in there. You could use Google Translate, but that does not yield the best (and professional) results, so it would be best to translate [...]

Tags: languages, php, php constants, translation
Categories: Web Development

If you are an Apache user for the hosting of either internal or external web sites then you know how flexible this web server can be. But did you know you can host more than one site on that server? You can thanks to Virtual sites. You can host virtual sites based on either IP [...]

Tags: apache, Fedora, Linux, ubuntu, virtual hosts
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Advanced, Web Development

Last week was a bit less active in web development terms, but here’s a roundup of what you can find on Scriptastique if you haven’t been taking a look recently.
We had a look at how a mysql query basically works, which will come in handy if you’re just learning about MySQL and PHP. The [...]

Tags: mysql, php, web development
Categories: Web Development

If you are building a large website, chances are you have a great little CSS stylesheet linked to every document which governs all the pages. But what do you do if you want just one of the pages to be completely different? You could of course go into your code and ad separate id-s and [...]

Tags: css, php, superglobal, web development
Categories: Web Development