Category Archives: Quick-tips

MySQL field types cheat-sheet

Quick-tips » PHP & MySQL Tautvydas / 2012-03-27
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MySQL supports a number of column types, which may be grouped into three categories: numeric types, date and time types, and string (character) types. It’s sometimes hard to remember all the MySQL field type specifications, supportive number ranges and so on. This cheat sheet gives you all details needed, describes field type specifications. Continue

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HTML5 Quick Tip: “Details” element

Quick-tips » HTML & CSS Tautvydas / 2011-11-26
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One of my favorite new HTML5 tags, which has only recently been integrated into Chrome (as of version 12), is the details element. I’ll show you to use it in today’s quick tip. Continue

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PHP Quick-Tip: rounding numbers

Quick-tips » PHP & MySQL Tautvydas / 2011-09-10
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In PHP rounding numbers is pretty easy and yet some newbies is having trouble with acquiring expected results… Continue

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CSS Quick-Tip: Positioning checkbox/label

Quick-tips » HTML & CSS Tautvydas / 2011-07-28
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Various browsers is rendering checkbox inputs differently. It can be often seen on the web: in some browsers checkbox positioning works well, meanwhile in others it’s a complete mess.
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5 quick tips to improve your next design

Quick-tips » HTML & CSS Tautvydas / 2011-06-11
Quick-Tips to improve Your web design

You think your designs looks shitty? You’re probably doing some of the most common web-design mistakes we will be reviewing and solving here… Continue

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CSS Quick-Tip: Centering object vertically

Quick-tips » HTML & CSS Tautvydas / 2011-05-07
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For centering an object horizontally we can just use “margin:0 auto”. Which means to add no margins at the top and bottom, meanwhile left and right adjust automatically. In equal parts. But, unfortunately it’s a bit harder when we need to center something both: vertically and horizontally. In the exact center of the window.
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Bracketless VS traditional if-else statement

Quick-tips » PHP & MySQL Tautvydas / 2011-04-10
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There is no secret that some developers are using traditional statements, some – bracket-less. But witch one is better to use?
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Replacing text into clickable links

Quick-tips » PHP & MySQL Tautvydas / 2011-02-09
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Ever wondered how these PHP magicians converts text urls into clickabe links? There are several ways to do this, but probably the best one to use is ereg_replace. Continue

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Redirecting via PHP/HTML

Quick-tips » HTML & CSS » PHP & MySQL Tautvydas / 2011-02-07
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There is a lot ways to redirect your users e.g. from old domain to the new one or refresh site automatically when you are working on the design. I’ll review HTML, PHP and apache mod_rewrite ways to do this. Continue

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Quick-Tip: Removing default outlines

Quick-tips » HTML & CSS Tautvydas / 2011-01-31
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This is a really quick tip. Many unexperienced web-designers keep asking how to remove default user-agent (web browser) stylesheets formated outlines. Simplier – dotted outline whitch shows when you click link, input field etc. (In webkit it looks differently, but you got the point)… Continue

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