web-programming Posts

Nov 25, 2011

One of the affiliate offers I participate in redirects visitors to their website to their country specific based websites which is great for the user, not so great for me because when the user is redirected the affiliate cookie is lost and I don't get credit for the ...

Nov 5, 2011

While I am a fan of Monty Python's Spam skit, I am not a fan of automated WordPress spam, and it seems to be getting worse every day. Of course the large majority of WordPress comment spam is just automated comments posting directly to the WordPress wp-comments-post.php file. I have ...

Dec 9, 2009

If you want to save some time editing your .htaccess file check out Htaccess Tools. It has some great .htaccess generators to help save you some time. Generators include: Htpasswd Generator Htaccess Authentication Hotlink protection of images Block IPs with .htaccess Block hitbots with .htaccess Error Document Redirection by Language While ...

Jun 9, 2009

Many years ago I wrote a quick PHP script to help me create a simple HTML photo gallery from JPG images. I released it as LGR Photo and gave it away for free. It was a great little gallery and did what I needed it to do. I made it ...

Feb 23, 2009

I am always amazed at how often I come back to a table of ASCII HTML codes that I have on my computer. ASCII HTML codes allow you to enter characters into a web page that are not found on you keyboard. The codes can also be very useful for ...

Feb 20, 2009

I was working on a contact form for a client this last week, and while I have a PHP form processing script that I like to use there are other alternatives to add a contact and other forms to your website if you do not happen to know PHP or ...

Feb 4, 2009

One of the easiest ways to add some organization to your blog posts is to use a list. People like lists and they can help you make your points in a post or on your website clearly and quickly. In HTML there are three types of lists: Ordered lists. Unordered ...

Jan 28, 2009

import Caption from '../../components/Caption.astro'; I was surfing around a little last night and came across this visual HTML joke of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. I think you have to be a true HTML geek to think it is funny. That photo reminded me of a couple of photos of a ...

Jan 27, 2009

One of the great things about publishing on the Internet is the ability to link to other resources on the Internet. A basic hyperlink in the body of a page is created using the anchor tag and looks like this: <a href="http://lgr.ca/">LGR Internet Solutions</a> The href (Hypertext Reference) attribute is the resource ...

Jan 13, 2009

import Caption from '../../components/Caption.astro'; If you are new to running your own website or blog you might not know a lot of HTML but there is some basic HTML that is easy to learn that will make running and managing your website and blog much easier now and in the future. ...