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Installing Symfony on Mac OSX with MAMP, PEAR and PDO

Pawel — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:13:42 +0000

How to install and configure Symfony on your Mac? The answer to this question is not obvious and various people suggest different approach. I recently have installed Symfony on my machine and decided to share a few tips how to achieve it. Things are not that complicated once you know what you are doing.

Fix the z-index bug under the Internet Explorer

Pawel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:48:33 +0000

Positioning the HTML elements using relative or absolute positioning, can bring a problem with z-index positioning especially under the Internet Explorer (beloved browser lol). This can be extremely frustrating problem, but easy to fix.

Generate random string of characters in PHP

Pawel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:54:04 +0000

In this very short tutorial, I am going to show you how to ceate a flexible php function. This function will allow you to generate random string of your choosen characters and your choosen length. Let's create the php function!

Create custom wordpress navigation with active state using wp_list_pages(); and wp_list_categories();

Pawel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:30:58 +0000

Wordpress navigation can be tricky to create and sometimes we are not able to create it as we want. Problems starts if our website structure forces us to display categories, pages and home buttons and keep the active status even if deep into the category strucutre. This tutorial will explain how to acomplish just that.

Applying style to an element only if multi-class union exist

Pawel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:48:28 +0000

Using CSS, you can apply multiple styles to one HTML element. This is obvious and helps to keep our HTML and CSS clean and redundant. What happens if we want to style the element differently ONLY if two different classes applied?

Create Custom Shape from multiple elements in Photoshop

Pawel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:17:50 +0000

Creating custom shape in photoshop is relatively easy task, but what if you want to create it using multiple elements? This tutorial explains very easy technique to accomplish this task. We could use Illustrator to create such a thing, but I thought it would be interesting to make it in photoshop.

Create pattern backgrounds for you website in Photoshop

Pawel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:27:49 +0000

This tutorial shows how to create background for your website in Photoshop and how to crop the images and prepare them for your website. Next we will style our html file and display our headers in browser. We are going to create 4 different header elements using patterns and filters.

How to center a div vertically and horizontally on a page

Pawel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:30:07 +0000

I came across many young designers asking how to center an element on the website and not using the table. Using table layout is was very easy but not so obvious when we use divs.

How to install localhost server on your machine – Installing MAMP

Pawel — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:00:00 +0000

This short video shows how to install localhost server on your Mac. For a quick set up and no hassle installation we are going to use XAMP server package. Mac version is called MAMP. After installing this package, we are ready to use our localhost with PHPmyAdmin and easy to configure other settings. Everything out of the box.