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This article comes from the personal experiences I had whilst starting Twodded – a ‘quality tutorials’ section of the Pixel2life tutorial listing website. The aim of the site was to provide the users of Pixel2life with consistent quality tutorials and to set a standard for websites in the community to follow. Twodded flopped because of…

I’m not a fan of ‘Flash based’ sites and the main reason for that is barely no-one does them properly. So here’s a list of 21 ways to make your Flash based site suck, so that the next time you build a Flash based site you can really hit that nail on the head. 1.…

I thought the tutorial writing world needed to know really how to write those bad tutorials, and how to do it properly. I can’t get enough of bad tutorials and love it when I see 40 “tutorials” in a row rejected from the same website. Here’s to you old pals… 1. Always start with ‘This…

Yes thats right, here’s my selection of some of the worst PHP tutorials i’ve seen submitted to Pixel2Life, ever. Note: These tutorials where NOT accepted to Pixel2Life and are NOT a representation of what the actual content on Pixel2Life, just a representation of the crap people like to think is worthy of being called a…

Here’s a tidbit of code for you, in a hope that this helps someone out. Paste the following into your .htaccess file and it will enable GZIP across all pages in the directory where the .htaccess file resides: php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler Hows it do it? This line of code sets the output handler/buffer as ob_gzhandler…