Featured Website - Planescape Online

The Planescape Online website has been a labor of love. Since the beginning of my time at Conestoga College, in the Web Design and Development program, I have been working very hard on this personal project. I'm happy to announce that the website is now in regular use (by my friends and I), and we're quite happy with how it works! To understand exactly...

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Preloading Images and Removing Screen Flicker While SWF Loads

There are many options to preload images in HTML pages. The simplest would be to create a div and move it off the screen. In this div, I created a list to preload background images into (using CSS). The other images that are loaded up are header images for the other pages in the website. Once loaded they stay in the cache, thus the header images appear instantly when the user navigates to those pages.  <div id="img_preloader">   <ul>    <li>button hover</li>   </ul>   <img...

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MYSQL Query tips

Querying for NULL or non NULL values Since arithmetic comparison operators do not return meaningful results, use the 'IS NULL' and 'IS NOT NULL' operators in your query. ...to be contin...

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PHP here document (also called a here-document, a heredoc, a hereis, here-string or here-script)

Using heredoc in PHP <?php echo <<<EOT     <h1>This will display as an h1</h1>     <p>I can use "double quotes"</p>     <h1>and 'single quotes',     <p>plus $variables too, which will     be properly converted to their values,     you can even type EOT.</p>     <p>Make sure your opening EOT has no spaces after it,     and the closing EOT has no spaces infront of i...

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