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This was an item cooked up by Lynda of digitalwoe.com but her original entry appears to be lost and this hack is so handy, I wanted to make sure it was readily available to anyone who wants it. You need to be using PHP to use this – just insert the code in your MT […]

I was recently frustrated by Movable Type's basic support of time zones. You can select a time zone as a number of hour plus or minus UTC, but there's no adjustment for Daylight Savings Time, and entry dates and times are saved in whatever localtime was at the time. The default RSS 1.0 template just […]

Found this on Jennifer's etc. blog this morning: Quick Code Text Filter plugin for MT. This is one that would be useful here – If/when I get the time to do it, I'll let you know how the install goes.

If you're looking for a simple photo gallery script, Photopal in action. Guest authored by: Carla – andshesaid.com

A simple little ASP snippet. If you want to see what's coming over from your method="POST" form – here's a bit of code that will loop through everything, show you the variable name and it's value: for each x in request.form() response.write(x & ": " & request.form(x) & "<br>" ) next if you're using method="GET" […]

"How we really use the Web" is a sample chapter from Don't Make Me Think that is chock full of good information. Even if you've been designing websites for years, it is always a good idea to step back and remember to consider how people will be using the site. (The challenge after that is […]

Ever want your readers to be able to print your pages cleanly without having to suffer through all your sidebars and graphics? Here's a way to do just that. You need to create a new stylesheet and point your pages to it. Here's how I did it: First, you need to define the two stylesheets […]

I wrote this script to password-protect a page of mine. This has some disadvantages in that you need to implement this on every page you want to password protect, though you can throw it into a header/footer file to cover a set of pages. I use this in MT to password protect a private journal […]

I do not have an eye for color. An online tool that helps tremendously is The Color Schemer. Each color selected will show 15 other web-safe colors that correspond with it. There is also a shareware version of the program, with more options than the web site, including a non-web-safe color spectrum. Guest Authored by: […]

Mark Pilgrim's recent post (why we won't help you) about using HTML validation as a way to troubleshoot layout problems (among other things) got me wondering if I could validate my own HTML. So I did – here are some tips on how you can too: Validation means you're bringing your markup into compliance with […]