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This guide takes you through the process of converting a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 using the Fiverizer software. (Fiverizer is a program that I wrote to convert my own websites, all of which were also in XHTML 1.0. It may be downloaded and used free of charge.) ...

The Feedback Form Wizard has been fixed so that it can now, once again, create the CAPTCHA versions (ReCAPTCHA and hCaptcha) of the script. Apparently, somewhere along the line, I seem to have broken it during one of my inteal updates. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. Note: you do not have to recreate your script if you successfully generated it before. (The problem was that under certain conditions, the wizard choked and died before it could generate a script. So if you actually received a script, you are fine.)...

Introduction When working with forms, it is common to display or conceal various fields based on the options selected. I'll use Vue to conditionally show or hide form elements. In this example, I'm going to use an SFC (Single File Component) for ease of us. You'll see this in full in the putting it all together section below. For this to work it does not need to use a SFC, the HTML and JS will work when used in traditional setups i.e. having JS in javascript blocks and the HTML in a page's body. Creating the form elements Here I have 2 select elements, imagine the insurance type should only be displayed if the answer to Do you want insurance? was Yes <div&...

That begs the question how do you separate the time into seperate elements? Making use of explode can work. Exploding where there a : so: $parts = explode(':', '14:25:00'); This would result in an array: [ "14", "25", "00", ] To use an element you can refer to its index for example $parts[0] would contain 14 Using them by their index is fine to do but kinda messy. I prefer to give each element a name using the list function list($hours, $minutes, $seconds) = explode(':', '14:25:00'); When using list() passing an array to it will allow you to name each index of the array in the order listed. Putting this into p...

The script generated by the Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to improve compatibility with PHP 8 (eg, 8.0, 8.1, etc). Note: if you have generated your form and script after 1 January 2023, you already have this version (ver 3.2.0). ...

This article on whether a domain name registrar is the same thing as a web host answers a question I was asked by a visitor....

The entire BlueGriffon Tutorial has been updated for the version 3 series of BlueGriffon. Those thinking of using it to create a website can find the complete series online....

What if someone else owns the domain on which your website sits? For example, as it was in the case of one of my visitors, someone may have bought the domain for you, and retained ownership of it. Or perhaps your website is on a free web host, or a blog host, and you are using the web address given to you by them. This article deals with how you can solve that problem (or potential problem)....

I was asked by a visitor why he couldn't dispense with a registrar and just make up any domain name he wanted. You may be surprised to hear that you can actually do that. But it won't do you any good....

There may be times you need to change the default colour of a link on your web page, for example, because the background colour clashes with it or renders it nearly invisible. This article shows you how to do it using the free BlueGriffon web editor....

This article deals with how to change the colour of the links on a web page using the free Microsoft Expression Web editor. It also addresses how you can change the colour of a link that has been clicked, as well as its colour when a mouse pointer is hovering over it....

The article on how to add a CAPTCHA to your contact form has been updated to include information on how you can use the newest CAPTCHA option (the one that potentially pays you for using them) of the Feedback Form Wizard. ...

The Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to include an additional CAPTCHA option. This one is not only free, it apparently even pays you when your visitors solve the CAPTCHA challenges. For those wondering, CAPTCHAs are those "I am not a robot" or "I am human" checkboxes on forms, used to make sure that a human is at the helm, and not some spam robot....

This article answers a question from a visitor on how to display a sentence so that small (lowercase) letters are shown in capital letters, but have a height shorter than the actual capital (uppercase) letters....

This article deals with how you can restore the Style Properties panel in the BlueGriffon web editor should you find it missing or not visible when you enable it....

One of my visitors wanted his users to be able to choose a song from a list, and have it play in an audio player on his web page. This article provides the JavaScript and HTML code for the task....

This article answers a question from a visitor on how to insert meta tags into a website using the free BlueGriffon web editor....

Find out how to generate an SSL certificate for a website on your own computer. (For those wondering, SSL certificates are needed so that your site can be accessed using HTTPS instead of HTTP.) ...

This article answers a visitor's question on how to set the height of a DIV (or even other elements) so that it is a percentage of the browser window/viewport. And no, using the percent unit (ie, "%") won't work the way you think....

If you need to set an environment to be a specific one such as staging you can override the environment by changing the config value app_env config(['app.env' => 'staging']); Then doing a dd on config(‘app.env’) will retu that environment you’ve just set. I haven’t found a way to set environments with app()->environment() so instead, I recommend using this in_array function and passing in the config(‘app.env’) and then specifically defining the environments.  in_array(config('app.env'), ['local', 'staging']) For example, say you have this in a command: if (! in_array(config('app.env'), ['local', 'staging'])) { $this->error(‘Will only run on local and...