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How to create a Welcome tab on your businesses Facebook page

Published on November 12, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

I have been asked this a lot recently. “How do we make the facebook page look nicer?”. Facebook is very limited for styling as they want to make sure your styling does not take away from facebooks images to much. So when a client showed me the facebook page for beauty flash which showed a [...]

Popout tutorial using only css.

Published on October 31, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

I am loving this tutorial from Soh Tanaka on how to create an information popout for images. A bit like google images whenyou move your mouse over an image.

How to Build a CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

Published on October 31, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

Net tuts+ have published anice article on how to create a CSS3 Mega Menu. As these are all the range at the moment, you would prefer to have one which uses as little Javascript resource as possible.

How to identify the browser in PHP

Published on October 16, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

Bastian Allgeier has posted a great article on how to identify what browser is being used to view your website. The code is written in PHP and set the HTML class to the browser being used. The implementation involves downloading the PHP code from Bastian’s website and adding two line of code to your PHP [...]

Create a simple image gallery in Drupal 6 using CCK and Views

Published on June 7, 2010 By annie

James Tombs provides a good step by step tutorial about creating an image gallery in Drupal. Check it out http://jamestombs.co.uk/2009-03-18/create-a-simple-image-gallery-in-drupal-6-using-cck-and-views/996

Display the contents of an array in Smarty

Published on April 25, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

Some time you just need to see what variables are available in an array in Smarty. In PHP this is usually done using “print_r($foo)” where $foo is your array. But in smarty this is done using the following method. {$foo|@print_r} When you use this command I recommend placing open and closing pre tags around the [...]

Use video to explain how to do something

Published on March 19, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

As a developer/Tester I need to explain how I have fixed something or why something has broken. Usually this involves writing complicated emails with step by step instructions on how to replicate the issue. I came across screen toaster which make it much easier to create video tutorials of what is happening  on your screen. [...]