Aron and myself attended dConstruct this past Friday at the Brighton Dome, conveniently just round the corner from Realmac Software HQ! dConstruct is aimed at web developers and each year chooses a different theme, this years theme was “Designing the Social Web”.

Categories: conferences, web, standards, design, Techniques

The IE 6 Death March has started recruiting soldiers, many people have already signed up, but can we really stop supporting a browser that still accounts for around 25% of all internet traffic?

Categories: browsers, standards, stats

Does your site contain database driven content? Do you wish your URLs were memorable, user hackable, SEO friendly and more secure? In this article I’ll show you how you can turn you old query string URLs into Sexy URLs. All it takes is a little Apache ForceType and some PHP!

Categories: PHP, Apache, SEO

I was recently looking into a parser for a Twitter RSS feed to output tweets onto a webpage. Most of the current solutions are all JavaScript based which I have issues with on the grounds that they don't embed the content in the website which means that with JavaScript turned off you won’t see the feeds. I suppose you could argue that a Twitter feed is hardly vital content but still if you’re going to put it on your site shouldn't it be available to everyone?

So this led me to begin looking for a server side script yet I failed to find one, although I'm sure they exist. So I thought this would be a good excuse to write a post on SimplePie, the RSS parsing framework. If you've never heard of SimplePie it's a very easy to use PHP class that will take any feed (Atom or RSS) and allow you to output its contents on a webpage.

Categories: PHP, Twitter, RSS, SimplePie

RapidWeaver is an easy to use, drag-and-drop, web design application for Mac OS X. You can create a fantastic looking website published in just a few minutes. However, if you know your way around the likes of HTML, CSS and PHP then RapidWeaver has many powerful features that you can take advantage of. Join me as I show you some of RapidWeavers’ hidden gems.

Categories: RapidWeaver, Tips, SEO, PHP