scriptygoddess

I just spotted this over at Sugarfused. Check it out…

Color Toy (Flash required)

It's another color finder/color scheme toy. The nice thing about this one is that you can click "Random" and it will give you a (wait for it… wait for it) random color, along with other coordinating colors. Pretty cool. I just used it to generate a couple of random color schemes that I might try to use in the near future.

So go pick your colors, grab a picture, make a banner and the Firdamatic will design your layout for you. How easy is that?

All of you people that actually know PHP may want to skip this entry as what I'm about to say will probably make you cringe. You could probably do this in some frightfully easy way, but I've barely cracked my PHP book open, so this has to work for me for now.
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I wanted to change how my blog comment notifications looked. Since I only have one blog, I don't need the first part to tell me which blog the comment is from. I also wanted to do whois lookups on the ipaddresses so I can get more info about the people who are commenting on my site.

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I wrote a follow up to The Pregnancy Script that I thought I'd share with you guys!

The First Year Script is meant to allow new mommies to provide baby updates right on their websites. The script gives the baby's name, birthdate, and current age, a recent picture, and a recent milestone. While it is called The First Year Script, you could theoretically use it for your child's whole life. With the exception of twins, this script is meant to be used for one child at a time, so if you want to use it for all of your children, you will have to install multiple copies — probably in different directories on your site.

There's a few of these online… here's one that looked pretty comprehensive: Online Download Time Calculator (or a more basic one here)

Sam sent me this link which had three articles about php security – but since that page had pop-ups – here are the three articles directly:
PHP Security, Part I
PHP Security, Part II
PHP IP and Basic Information Harvester v1.00

So you want to register a domain, but need some ideas (and also need to know what's available). Here's a few "Domain name suggestion tools":

nameboy.com
Registerfly's suggestion tool

If I find more, I'll add them – if you find more, feel free to post them in the comments.

This is a technique I use a lot at work. Mostly for times I have to show a screenshot – Just to make it look a little more interesting rather than just pasting it squared up and flat against the background.

Part of this tutorial is similar to one I found here: designsbymark.com (the Software Box with reflection) however, I also add a shadow which helps give more "realism".

(click thumbnails in tutorial to see a bigger image)
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A neat, and easy, way to put a digital clock right into the code of your website/blog. Note that instead of a div, you can also use a span, as long as you use the same id.
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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox (you get the notifications for these, RRrright?!) for August 18th is Usability 101. Excellent article explaining the basics of usability. Pass it along the next time someone gives you a confused look when you start to talk about whether a site is usable or not. 😉