Blazek Web Design

Venture Capitalists

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:46:09 +0000

I have an amazing business concept, but no money to see it through. Does anyone know of any venture capitalists that might be interested in hearing a web2.0 business concept?

Working on a major project!

Nathan Blazek — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:47:32 +0000

So, in my spare time (like I really have any, huh?) I have been working on and developing an RSS based news aggregation site, called RANCT(RSS Aggregator and News Collaboration Tool). It’s located at www.ranct.com if you wish to take a look. While I am still working on a lot of additions for it, the core [...]

Using a transparent div to protect your images in CSS

Nathan Blazek — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:23:46 +0000

I was working on a little bit of CSS this morning and ran into some problems that I tried researching a solution for. The problem? I created a div that contained an image and some text. Then I overlayed another div directly on top of it to protect the image from a right-click as well as to [...]

Developing a CMS

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:08:11 +0000

As a university web developer I’ve come across the need for a CMS in many diffrent applications. Currently we are using Ektron CMS400 to house over 17K pages. In the past, prior to my employment. The previous web developer used this system for anything and everything, which works, but is not fully effective! For example, our [...]

CSS font-sizing using em and not px

Nathan Blazek — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:43:06 +0000

In the past have always declared my font sizes using the traditional method based on pixel size. Before I made this jump, I figured using px was sufficient enough for my use, but I came to realize that this is not the case. For your reference, this is how I declared font-sizes in the past: a { [...]

PHP include and require

Nathan Blazek — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:34:41 +0000

I was working on a project tonight and came across an error that I’ve seen before in my PHP programming. If you have ever worked with PHP includs or requires then you may eventually run intoan error message that looks similiar to this: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare myfunction() (previously declared in /usr/local/www/myfile.php:48) in /usr/local/www/myfile.php on line [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nathan Blazek — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:53:42 +0000

Im taking a few days off of writing the blog, so I just want to wish every a Happy Thanksgiving!

Using global variables in a PHP function

Nathan Blazek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:25:52 +0000

There will come a time in your experience in PHP that will require the use of a variable that remains the same for all functions. This variable should be called global and is best placed at the top of your PHP page in your variable declarations section. So, for example: global $sitetitle; $sitetitle = “Blazek Web Design”; Now the [...]

CSS: Why font-weight doesn’t work

Nathan Blazek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:37:46 +0000

Have you ever wished you could adjust how bold your font actually appears? In CSS, we are given this ability, but don’t get to excited because it doesn’t work as you expect. For example: MY FONT (100weight) MY FONT (200weight) MY FONT (300weight) MY FONT (400weight) MY FONT (500weight) MY FONT (600weight) MY FONT (700weight) MY FONT (800weight) MY FONT (900weight) As you can tell, [...]

AJAX – Save textarea as a draft to SQL database

Nathan Blazek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:46 +0000

I was working on a project yesterday that I found it necessary to create an auto-save feature do to the lengthy amount of text that would be entered into a text area. This is a little more complicated, but here it goes! create.php <?php include ‘../../config.php’; //THIS FILE STARTS YOUR DB CONNECTION if (isset($_POST["submit"])) { $content = $_POST["content"]; $SQLsavearticle = “PUT [...]