web design

It may seem like a trivial thing to some, but many web designers, novices, and bloggers don't know how to have the copyright year automatically update on their website.

It's true that the year should really only be updated when the content has been updated, but for small business that don't get around to updating their content much. An ancient copyright year can look bad to prospective customers.

To show the current year, just use the following PHP code snippet.

<?php echo date("Y"); ?>

The full thing (assuming the current year is 2010)

<p>&copy; 2001-<?php echo date("Y"); ?> Company Name</p>

© 2001-2010 Company Name

For more information see the PHP documentation about the date function.

colr.org

You can use a picture or website to create a color scheme from. You can also browse through user created schemes.

ColorToy

Browse through bright and colorful web-friendly colors.

 I decided to mock-up a new theme for my blog/website. This is still a work in progress, but I thought it would be interesting to post this now to compare it to the final theme.

Let me know what you think. I've only spent about 2 hours on it so far.

It really chaps my ass when websites resize my browser window.

I'm okay if it opens a new window and makes that full screen, but come on, not the one that I have a bunch of tabs in! After I leave your stupid website I have to go and resize my browser back to how it was. It's a lot like having to re-adjust your seat after getting your car valeted. It's just annoying.

It's bad web design and flat out rude!

If you want to add a really cool slideshow to your website like the one below, just follow these steps:

click to view

This has to be one of the greatest things ever posted on YouTube.

I made a playlist with all 10 episodes in order so it will be easy to watch them all.

From the guy that loves Sweet Berry Wine.