Category Archives: Tutorials
Flash Game – Raining Anvils
What do we want to do Create a game where you play as Road Runner. Dodging anvils dropped from above (assumably by the Coyote). Where this game will differ from other script based projects we have done in the past … Continue reading
What is Flash and Should I Learn It?
What is Flash? Adobe Flash is a multimedia tool that gives the ability to develop animation, audio, video and advanced interactivity using a simple visual interface. While the final result is often used on websites, it is also possible to … Continue reading
Beginning Actionscript 3
Starting out with any programming language is difficult to grasp at first. What you will find however is that after learning the concepts behind one language, it gets easier when you move to another language (Javascript, PHP…). The following are … Continue reading
Installing PHP on our computer using XAMPP
What is php? PHP is a scripting language that is generally used to combine front end technologies like HTML and CSS to backend technologies such as a MySQL database. PHP can be used to send email from a form, generate … Continue reading
Javascript Form Checking
A very popular use for JavaScript is its ability to check input data from forms before we send it to the server to be processed (added to a database, email, etc.) What we will be doing is creating a simple … Continue reading
CSS and Javascript (DHTML)
One of the nice uses of javascript is that it can change some of the styles on our page. In this example we are going to use certain events such as the page loading or clicking a button modify some … Continue reading
Beginning Javascript
Up next, Javascript! We use Javascript for client side programming. It is a great way to make our webpages more interactive by dynamicly changing content and styles, as well as verifying input data such as forms. We can even combine … Continue reading
HTML / CSS Forms
HTML/CSS forms can be a bit scary at first. Let’s take a look at a simple HTML form and break it down, tag by tag: <div class=”blueform”> <form> <fieldset> <legend>Email Us</legend> <div> <label>Your Name</label> <input type=”text” name=”your_name” value=”" /> </div> … Continue reading
Beginning PHP
The syntax of PHP is very similar to that of Javascript. The difference is use, we use PHP for any backend functionality for our website: sending email, adding customers to a database, logging in to our website… You want to … Continue reading →