From the Notebook

A Roundup of FTP Clients

This post provides links to a range of FTP clients—some free, some not—for uploading your web files to a remote server, sorting them according the systems they work on.

Contact Form Honeypots

If you have a contact form on your website, you will end up receiving a lot of spam unless you take steps to prevent it. This entry explores two simple ways to trip up the spam bots without making life difficult for your legitimate site visitors.

Latest Code Samples

A PHP Contact Form for your Site

Most websites need a Contact page with a contact form, but to create your own, reliable contact form you need some knowledge of server side code. Here is a simple PHP form script that you can add to your website, and have a contact form up and running in minutes.

Code for Creating Tabs

Rather than having one long page of content, it often it makes sense to gather the content into sections that are only shown when a tab is clicked. Here is some simple code for creating tabbed content.

Latest Learning Resources

jQuery: A Really Simple Introduction

This video provides a simple introduction to jQuery, looking a what it is and how it is added to a page to create an extra layer of functionality.

CSS: A Really Simple Introduction

This video provides a really simple, absolute beginner level introduction to the concept of CSS and how it works.