scriptygoddess

Found a very cool tutorial to make swirling text in photoshop. There's more tutorials on that site too, like this one for smoke. (found via Creativebits)

Here's a new fun little colortool someone sent me a link to yesterday: Genopal. There are a bunch of pre-made "themes", or you can play around with the controls to create a new one. Click on any of the colors in the theme will reveal what HEX value it is.

Another mini-cheatsheet… I know this stuff, but I'm always looking it up for the exact syntax. Connect to MySQL and to the database – mysql_connect $connect = mysql_connect("localhost", "mysqluser", "userpassword") or die(mysql_error()); Select the database – mysql_select_db mysql_select_db("databasename", $connect) or die(mysql_error()); Close connection – mysql_close mysql_close($connect) or die(mysql_error()); Select data from the database – mysql_query […]

Just some random stuff. This post was saved as a draft a long time ago because I needed to refer to one of these – but was waiting until I could find the original source to publish. It's pretty generic/basic stuff, though, (and a really small snippet) so I'm finally posting it. To set the […]

I was recently asked to embed a map into a web site. Basically, the client wanted a map, with a marker, indicating where their business was, and an easy way for the user to get directions to where they were located. The first thing you need to do is get a Google Map API key. […]

I'm just curious… is there a fancy way to do something like this in CSS: Introduction …………… Page 1 Information ……………. Page 2 More Info ……………… Page 3 … where the "Page" text lines up and the "….." just fills in until it reaches the "Page" text… kind of like you'd see in a table […]

It seems like a lifetime ago I first saw that javascript that does the neat "show/hide" trick. Recently I did a search to see what the latest version of that script was and there must have been a dozen different varieties. I think I liked this one the best which is a million times simpler […]