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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...

You know, it's funny how the big milestones can sneak up on us. Just as I was putting the finishing touches on my recent Headless Hashnode tutorial, I realized it's been 15 years since I started this blogging jouey—and what's more, I was just 1 post away from blog update 500! It got me thinking about how this whole blogging adventure has shaped my career in web development. I’ve had the same enthusiasm for sharing my experiences as I have for coding, and what better way to commemorate this occas...

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 b...

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). ...

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide you want to pin certain posts. Pinned posts should be displayed before any other posts regardless of their published date. The Solution You can accomplish this by modifying the order clause in the query. Take this order: ->orderBy('published_at', 'desc') This will order posts by their published date in descending order. Adding a second-order clause: ->orderBy('is_pinned', 'desc')->orderB...

I wanted to create a table of contents from the post's heading tags automatically without having to change the headings like adding an id or anchor. I started to look at existing solutions and came across this custom function on Stackoverflow by sjaak-wish function generateIndex($html) { preg_match_all('/<h([1-6])*[^>]*>(.*?)</h[1-6]>/',$html,$matches); $index = "<ul>"; $prev = 2; foreach ($matches[0] as $i => $match){ $curr = ...

Microsoft's free web editor is a sophisticated WYSIWYG web editor with many features usually only found in commercial offerings (and no wonder, since it was previously something you had to buy). This tutorial series takes you through the process of designing a fully functional multi-page website with Expression Web....

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 answers a visitor's question on how to build a website for free, without paying any money for it....

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.) ...

Give alteate rows of your tables a different colour ("color") to make it easier for your readers to distinguish which row is which. This article shows one way of doing this using CSS....

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....

What is ping submission in SEO? Ping Submission is the off page SEO process that tell search engine about newly created back link, blog post and website post. This process helps in crawling and indexing of your newly created backlink. It is very simple process, you have to submit your blog here and these sites start their work. Today, everyone runs in the race of making online presence as a form of website on the web. But, only establishing an online presence is not so enough these days, because...

Backlinks are the backbone of your website. According to SEO experts, backlinks are essential sources of traffic generation and higher domain authority which make backlinks vital components to accrue top ranking on SERPs. However, for creating good backlinks, you definitely need backlink tools and a backlink building strategy to proceed with. You are in the right place if you are in search of some...

Content writing has become one of the most popular online activities of the decade, but it doesn’t mean that everyone is doing it successfully. It takes a lot of skills and writing prowess to design q...

Instagram is the most popular social media platform which is made for photo and video sharing. Primarily, it is image-dedicated and one of the most popular photos sharing app. Instagram has quickly be...