Spent a little time giving my blog a new look. It’s not that I didn’t like the old one but sometimes it was a bit of a mess, I’ve been getting many new readers so it was time for a cleaner look. My main concern was getting all code posts to be readable but I [...]

I recently needed to force a WMV to download using Apache. The default behaviour for most browsers is to try to open the movie inside the browser itself. This works fine if the person has the plugin otherwise we just gonna have a blank page. Also for huge WMV is easier to download the file [...]

Making a clickable text or image is easy, just add the <a> tag surrounding it. But this doesn’t work with divs and sometimes we need a whole div to be clickable and not just text. The following code is for JQuery but switching it to your favorite JS framework should be very easy.

As most languages PHP allows many ways to solve a problem. Some are faster then others. Here are a few ways to improve your PHP code.

One of the most painful tasks of a web developer/designer is to ensure that his website is compatible with the majority of the popular browsers. Nowadays this includes Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Opera, and the newest Chrome. Well, you can have firefox, IE and Chrome all on the same [...]

Blockquotes are an easy way to make your website stand out, by indicating that you are quoting someone you give a more professional approach to you website. You can do this by using <blockquote> Im quoting someone else</blockquote> But it still needs a little touch, so on your css file add this. blockquote { background:transparent [...]

I decided to take a course on Master Web Developer. It’s a 6 months course covering PHP, actionscrip, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax and more. Hopefully I’m going to fill all my gaps on web development and possibly get more and better works in this area. Also this way I can give better credibility to Different Pixel.

Well i just found out that Mozzila removed -moz-opacity from Firefox 3.5. It’s been deprecated for a long time and you can how replace it for the standard css property opacity. So something like -moz-opacity: 0.4 is now opacity: 0.4;

It’s been awhile since I last posted something here. Mostly because since my laptop fried I’ve been on a slower pace. I still couldn’t find any compatible hdd with my acer 2001 and Acer Portugal wasn’t been very helpfull.

During my efforts to combine Rita’s website to wordpress and with a cool gallery I came up with a few problems. Mainly because the top navigation bar was built using J-Query, which I’ve already made quite some time ago, and even after switching to mootools I didn’t want to be rebuilding it again.