These are the notes I took researching video editors for use in creating my blog. There are no detailed reviews or How-To’s. My main goal was to stabilize hand-held videos and not pay a lot of money. Other uses could be simple trimming, removing and adding sound, and adjusting brightness, contrast, etc. Easily Stabilization with…
Changed domain name in WordPress with plugin ***READ THE TERMS OF USE PAGE. You can really mess up your website doing this! There are not many times when you should be altering the domain name in your website installation but it can still be required. Maybe you have simply found a much better domain name…
Summary If you have a database and you don’t need a full US state and zip database, it might be helpful to have a look-up table of state names and abbreviations. I searched for a little while and didn’t find anything simple right away, so here is a little SQL script to make a state…
Summary Everybody needs a contacts table sooner or later. There is nothing that special about this one, but it is a place to start. Mostly likely, you will need to add and/or subtract field names. The straight SQL files are linked below, including the three look-up tables referenced in the contacts table. There is also…
Summary Here is a “quick and dirty” way to get a drop-down box in an HTML page to show the latest values from a MySQL database. Notice that there is a significant lack of error-handling. It sure did help clean up my HTML form, though. Assumptions: You already have a mysql connection object open and a MySQL database…
Problem: I could not get my responsive Adsense unit (from Google) to show up in the “banner” position module while using the Joomla Protostar template. When I put the same code in a different module position, it showed up immediately after refreshing the page. Possible Solution: After wrapping the Adsense code in a paragraph tag that was…
Summary Here is a “quick and dirty” way to get a connection to a MySQL server and a database selected. There are newer and better ways of doing this. If you use a shared hosting provider, however, they are not always so quick to update the servers to the latest software. This method should work…
Summary Below is a function that can generate a random advertisement within you HTML page. I have made it modular, so that it can be reused for different geometries within the page. Below are very brief instructions on how to use it. References: The part about getting a directory listing is from the PHP Manual.