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Fix: Internet Explorer 6 div height when less than 20px

Empty divs in IE6 seem to have a minimum height more or less equal
to the current line-height so if you want to have an emty div of 10px for example IE will render it as
being 20px in height.
To fix this add a html comment inside the div:
<div id=”smalldiv”> <!– –> </div>d

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HowTo: write circular text with php and gd

I had a project in which I had to generate an image based on a string. The problem was that the text had to be displayed circulary. After hours of internet searching I’ve came across http://www.phpgd.com and found this piece of code which did the job quite nicely.
<?php
$text = “Around and around around and around [...]

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HowTo: Disable yellow colored inputs in firefox because of google toolbar

You might have noticed that once installed, google toolbar will automatically fill with yellow the e-mail inputs in your nicely developed website. Now this might be ruining your design and functionality when you’ve got a dark background and a light color for the inputed text ( white or yellow ).
You can easily get rid of [...]

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HowTo: Create Picture Thumbnails with PHP and GD

Hi, first of all I’d like to wish you all a Happy New Year. Hope you enjoyed your holidays, because I know most of us are now behind the desks again, working.
Now, here’s a nice PHP plugin you can use to generate thumbnails in PHP. It’s called phpThumb and you can get it from phpthumb.sourceforge.net.
First [...]

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URL rewriting with .htaccess

If you’re looking for this, you know why you need it. But just in case you’ve stumbled upon this and are curious, URL rewriting is useful for several reasons:
1. Accessibility: most people will rather remember a path that looks like http://www.example.com/products/shoes/12/ than http://www.example.com/index.php?category=products&type=shoes&productid=12
2. Security: granted, this is security through obscurity, but at the very least [...]

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Javascript Website Preloader

Here’s a nice java based website preloader I found recently. I needed it for a project and I think this might be useful to others too. Credits for this go to USINGIT.COM.
So here’s how you should use it :
Copy the following lines in to the header of the webpage:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>
<!– Begin
function clearPreloadPage() { //DOM
if (document.getElementById){
document.getElementById(’prepage’).style.visibility=’hidden’;
}else{
if [...]

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