With more people surfing the web from their mobile devices, designers and developers have been trying to figure out the best way to cater to visitors on both mobile devices and computers. When internet capable phones first began gaining popularity the method was to have two separate sites, a mobile site and a “full” site. But that would limit the mobile viewers’ experience because the site would be so basic it would cause you to wonder if it was coded by chisel and stone. That was then, now everyone is jumping on the “Responsive Web Design” bandwagon and finding it to be a rather happy median.

I like sites that maintain their appearance, at least to some degree, all the way down the resolution latter. But I also understand that specific industries and target audiences come in to play. In some industries, a person may only be viewing a site from their mobile device to find that companies contact info. In those instances, it is probably best that’s what they get from your mobile sized home page as soon as it loads, you can always include links at the bottom to everything else. I would encourage you to help your clients figure out what’s best for them, and keep all monitor sizes and internet browsing devices in mind as you’re developing your next project.

Responsive web design refers to a site that is developed to degrade nicely across multiple screen sizes and resolutions, from the largest Mac display down to the minutest mobile device. It also works wonders on frame size, square or widescreen, as well as window size, as not everyone prefers their browser to be full screen. There are three key factors to developing a responsive website, flexible layouts, flexible images, and media queries. Let’s take a look at 10 excellent examples of responsive web design.

Sony

Sony is a big brand that has embraced responsive web design. You’ll notice there’s not much of a difference between the widescreen and traditional square screen versions other than everything looks a little more compact on the square screen. But if you start with it out wide and squeeze your browser window in, you’ll notice that the main image actually resizes itself to a smaller version. It resizes itself again once you get down towards mobile device width as well.

Gravitate Design

It’s no surprise that a design studio such as Gravitate Design features a responsive website design on their own site. Whether you are a freelancer or a large design studio, you always want your website to display the full extent of your design prowess and knowledge. I really like Gravitate’s site not only because it’s responsive but because it’s very clean and simple. Their color palette compliments itself nicely and they didn’t go overboard on shadowing, borders or putting all their content in boxes.

Spark Box

Spark Box is another web design studio that knows a good thing when they see it and doesn’t hesitate to implement it on their own site. One thing I really like about their website is how they use the width when they have it, but gracefully adjust when they don’t have it. Their little text blurb to the right of the monitor icons on the home page is a great example. It doesn’t look out of place aligned to the right in widescreen mode, nor does it look out of place centered underneath in square mode and mobile mode.

Food Sense

Food Sense is another great example of responsive web design. They use the width when they have it, but when they don’t they adjust without losing any of the clean look or flow to the site. The only unfortunate thing about the site is that once you leave their widescreen parameters you lose their latest tweet and Facebook plug that’s on the side column under the navigation. They still have links to both social networks in the footer, so it’s not a huge deal. But still would have been nice to see those features appear elsewhere in the skinnier designs.

Warface

Warface is the real deal.  It’s creative, extremely fluid and if you stretch and squeeze the width you’ll notice that it’s not one flat image, but in fact, several stacked on top of each other.

Clean Air Challenge

Last week I talked about sites with parallax scrolling and this Clean Air Challenge site just barely missed making my list. The site itself isn’t totally parallax scrolling, just the clouds in the background are. However, the site is an excellent example of responsive web design. Another aspect of this site that I liked was that the only images that you lose once you hit the mobile sized version of the site is the repeat of the main navigation icons that appear in the footer.

Sasquatch Music Festival

Sasquatch is an annual music festival in my neck of the woods featuring some big name artists. When I came across their site and saw that it’s as fun to look at as the bands they book are to listen to, I was quite excited. This site sticks out from a lot of the others for me because of all the colors, images, icons and overall sense of style it has to offer. A lot of the responsive websites I come across seem to be heavy on text, light on imagery, and only two or three colors throughout the site.

Andersson-Wise

Andersson-Wise is an Austin, Texas based architect and design firm.  Antialiasing jQuery scripts help this site maintain its responsiveness, regardless of how big your display is, this site will keep up.  A very simple, modern, clean and classy look, perfect for an architect and design firm.

The Cacao Trail

I can only imagine that The Cacao Trail website is almost as enjoyable to navigate as the actual trail is. You lose the main image on this site as soon as you go from widescreen down to a more traditional sized monitor, which I don’t mind as the image doesn’t really do too much for me and it would certainly save you a lot of load time on a mobile device. I do like how the main navigation links enlarge once you hit the mobile sized version, it can get to be a bit of an annoyance trying to touch tiny words to navigate a site on your touch screen mobile device.

Alsacreations

Alsacreations took another interesting approach to their responsive web design. Rather than worrying about keeping all aspects and elements of their site intact between different resolutions, they simply focused on what was important and dropped the bells and whistles. From widescreen to square they dropped their image slider, then from square to mobile, they dropped all elements except their “About” blurb and their email form while including links to everything else.

Yoke

Yoke is a fluid site thanks to a bit of javascript and its WordPress platform.  A well organized and structured layout keeps all of the animations and imagery from giving the site a cluttered look but keeps the site looking fun and creative.

Spigot

Spigot Design is yet another design firm who showcase their responsive abilities on their own website.  The overall look and layout of the site is very clean, almost minimalist, but a decent amount of color and creativity provide a nice balance and accent where it’s needed.

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If you remember, a while back we provided a roundup on parallax scrolling websites (10 Awesome Parallax Scrolling Sites). Developing a parallax scrolling website can be rather complex and requires a fair amount of coding in jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Well, that was the case until these pre-made templates appeared! If you want a website that takes advantage of the parallax scrolling effects, you should use one of these parallax scrolling templates. so let’s take a look at a few parallax scrolling templates that are out there for us to work with.

Let’s start with the parallax scrolling themes and templates that are out there for us to work with.

Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Salient is a multipurpose WordPress theme that comes with the following features: various demos, exclusive sliders, page transition effects, parallax, animations, and more.

Slide One

Slide One is a WordPress theme that offers a nice, clean, simple look with one main column spanning from top to bottom down the middle of the page. The background images scroll and provide the parallax effect, while the navigation and social icon links maintain a fixed position. I also like the expanding and collapsing option for the footer, quite clever.

Stellar

Stellar is a parallax scrolling website that was built with the 960 grid system. The template doesn’t overload you or bog down the load time of the site with large, high resolution, full-screen background images and relies more on a nice balance of typography and icons to add a little bit of color and character to the site. The parallax effect is minimal, but it’s there and is just enough to help the site stand out from the others. It will take a little HTML editing to custom fit this template to your needs, but at $10 it’s hard to beat!

Old Bakery

Old Bakery puts a refreshing spin on the standard parallax scrolling site. The background image is what provides the effect, but rather than making every background image a page they are used to alternate between a page with a staged shot of the baked good with some text and a full-screen, close-up, detailed picture of some baked goods between each page with text on it. A very cool concept for this HTML5 template, and for only $14 and a little bit of tweaking you could make it your very own!

Impreza – Retina Responsive WordPress Theme

Impreza is a premium WordPress theme with a fully responsive design. This template is customizable and it comes with powerful features such as parallax effect, animations, and more.

Parallax

The aptly named Parallax WordPress theme offers a great user interface for anyone on the WordPress platform that would like to feature a parallax scrolling effect for the content on their site. This theme comes with full support and free upgrades, is widget ready, and easily customizable with 2 color variations, 3-page templates and the ability to upload your own logo.

Hestia

This is a high-quality WordPress template which includes multiple great features such as a parallax effect, responsive layout, SEO optimized, custom backgrounds, and more.

TopPic Photography – Portfolio Photography Theme

TopPic is a premium WordPress theme that comes with great features such as full-screen photo slider, parallax headers, skin manager, and more.

Impress

Impress says it all in the title. I’m a sucker for sites that carry a vertical theme, and that’s exactly what this one does. Starting with mountain peaks scraping away at the sky and going all the way down below the grassy fields to the dark depths of the dirty, well, dirt. Impress was build on the Skeleton Grid System, and with a little tweaking of some HTML to incorporate all your details, this site could be yours for only $15!

Scrollfolio

Scrollfolio is a single page portfolio template that utilizes the parallax scrolling effect to help it stand out above standard, static portfolio web pages. The code is full of notes, making editing it and populating it with your content a breeze. Scrollfolio is compatible on all major browsers.

About the author: with over ten years in the freelance web design and writing fields, Scott Stanton has had his finger on the beating pulse of the industry’s hottest design trends and bends for the past decade. Scott regularly writes for Wix.com the free website builder. Follow him on Twitter @TheScottStanton.

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If you remember, a while back we provided a roundup on parallax scrolling websites (10 Awesome Parallax Scrolling Sites). Developing a parallax scrolling website can be rather complex and requires a fair amount of coding in jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Well, that was the case until these pre-made templates appeared! If you want a website that takes advantage of the parallax scrolling effects, you should use one of these parallax scrolling templates. so let’s take a look at a few parallax scrolling templates that are out there for us to work with.

Let’s start with the parallax scrolling themes and templates that are out there for us to work with.

Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Salient is a multipurpose WordPress theme that comes with the following features: various demos, exclusive sliders, page transition effects, parallax, animations, and more.

Slide One

Slide One is a WordPress theme that offers a nice, clean, simple look with one main column spanning from top to bottom down the middle of the page. The background images scroll and provide the parallax effect, while the navigation and social icon links maintain a fixed position. I also like the expanding and collapsing option for the footer, quite clever.

Nonus

Nonus is a parallax scrolling website that has singe page and multi-page variants. It supports WooCommerce, Slider Revolution, Layer Slider and other premium plugins. The theme is retina ready and responsive that makes it easy to optimize on various screen sizes.

Old Bakery

Old Bakery puts a refreshing spin on the standard parallax scrolling site. The background image is what provides the effect, but rather than making every background image a page they are used to alternate between a page with a staged shot of the baked good with some text and a full-screen, close-up, detailed picture of some baked goods between each page with text on it. A very cool concept for this HTML5 template, and for only $14 and a little bit of tweaking you could make it your very own!

Impreza – Retina Responsive WordPress Theme

Impreza is a premium WordPress theme with a fully responsive design. This template is customizable and it comes with powerful features such as parallax effect, animations, and more.

Parallax

The aptly named Parallax WordPress theme offers a great user interface for anyone on the WordPress platform that would like to feature a parallax scrolling effect for the content on their site. This theme comes with full support and free upgrades, is widget ready, and easily customizable with 2 color variations, 3-page templates and the ability to upload your own logo.

Hestia

This is a high-quality WordPress template which includes multiple great features such as a parallax effect, responsive layout, SEO optimized, custom backgrounds, and more.

TopPic Photography – Portfolio Photography Theme

TopPic is a premium WordPress theme that comes with great features such as full-screen photo slider, parallax headers, skin manager, and more.

Kutcher

Kutcher Studio has a grid-based single page responsive template. It is best for photo studios, digital agencies, freelancers or any business. It is an ideal portfolio theme for showcasing your work with a beautiful fullscreen slider and parallax scrolling effect.

Scrollfolio

Scrollfolio is a single page portfolio template that utilizes the parallax scrolling effect to help it stand out above standard, static portfolio web pages. The code is full of notes, making editing it and populating it with your content a breeze. Scrollfolio is compatible on all major browsers.

About the author: with over ten years in the freelance web design and writing fields, Scott Stanton has had his finger on the beating pulse of the industry’s hottest design trends and bends for the past decade. Scott regularly writes for Wix.com the free website builder. Follow him on Twitter @TheScottStanton.

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If you remember, a while back we provided a roundup on parallax scrolling websites (10 Awesome Parallax Scrolling Sites).  Developing a parallax scrolling website can be rather complex and requires a fair amount of coding in jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Well, that was the case until these pre-made templates appeared! If you want a website that takes advantage of the parallax scrolling effects, you should use one of these parallax scrolling templates. so let’s take a look at a few parallax scrolling templates that are out there for us to work with.

Let’s start with the parallax scrolling themes and templates that are out there for us to work with.

Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Salient is a multipurpose WordPress theme that comes with the following features: various demos, exclusive sliders, page transition effects, parallax, animations, and more.

Slide One

Slide One is a WordPress theme that offers a nice, clean, simple look with one main column spanning from top to bottom down the middle of the page.  The background images scroll and provide the parallax effect, while the navigation and social icon links maintain a fixed position.  I also like the expanding and collapsing option for the footer, quite clever.

Nonus

Nonus is a parallax scrolling website that has singe page and multi-page variants. It supports WooCommerce, Slider Revolution, Layer Slider and other premium plugins. The theme is retina ready and responsive that makes it easy to optimize on various screen sizes.

Old Bakery

Old Bakery puts a refreshing spin on the standard parallax scrolling site.  The background image is what provides the effect, but rather than making every background image a page they are used to alternate between a page with a staged shot of the baked good with some text and a full-screen, close-up, detailed picture of some baked goods between each page with text on it.  A very cool concept for this HTML5 template, and for only $14 and a little bit of tweaking you could make it your very own!

Impreza – Retina Responsive WordPress Theme

Impreza is a premium WordPress theme with a fully responsive design. This template is customizable and it comes with powerful features such as parallax effect, animations, and more.

Parallax

The aptly named Parallax WordPress theme offers a great user interface for anyone on the WordPress platform that would like to feature a parallax scrolling effect for the content on their site.  This theme comes with full support and free upgrades, is widget ready, and easily customizable with 2 color variations, 3-page templates and the ability to upload your own logo.

Hestia

This is a high-quality WordPress template which includes multiple great features such as a parallax effect, responsive layout, SEO optimized, custom backgrounds, and more.

TopPic Photography – Portfolio Photography Theme

TopPic is a premium WordPress theme that comes with great features such as full-screen photo slider, parallax headers, skin manager, and more.

Kutcher

Kutcher Studio has a grid-based single page responsive template. It is best for photo studios, digital agencies, freelancers or any business. It is an ideal portfolio theme for showcasing your work with a beautiful fullscreen slider and parallax scrolling effect.

Scrollfolio

Scrollfolio is a single page portfolio template that utilizes the parallax scrolling effect to help it stand out above standard, static portfolio web pages.  The code is full of notes, making editing it and populating it with your content a breeze.  Scrollfolio is compatible on all major browsers.

About the author: with over ten years in the freelance web design and writing fields, Scott Stanton has had his finger on the beating pulse of the industry’s hottest design trends and bends for the past decade. Scott regularly writes for Wix.com the free website builder. Follow him on Twitter @TheScottStanton.

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PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is used in many websites on the internet. We have compiled a list of 15 top PHP coding tutorials and tips / tricks to help you better understand it. These should keep you busy for a while. They all can come in handy sometime when you are coding. These PHP tutorials / tips / tricks are either video tutorials which you can watch from this page, or text tutorials where we’ve provided a link to the tutorial.

PHP Ajax Live Search

Ever wondered how to create those awesome looking search boxes where you can see the results in real-time as you are typing? This tutorial teaches you just that. Take advantage of AJAX and learn how to create real-time results in your search box.

How to: Create dynamic XML Sitemap & RSS Feed in PHP and MySQL

XML / RSS is an easy way to make your content global and available to various platforms. In this tutorial, you’ll find out how easy it is to create feeds for your content in PHP.

Scrape Websites with Python

Any info you need, be sure you’ll find it on Wikipedia! In this tutorial, you’ll learn how you can build a small scraper in PHP to fetch basic information about any topic from Wikipedia or any other website.

Single Sign-on Using OpenID, PHP and MySQL

Enable your website / web application to accept OpenID as a way of login. In this tutorial you’ll have a look at how you can enable your site for Open ID logins. You’ll be using PHP and MySQL.

Creating Simple Shopping Cart Using PHP & MySQL

This useful PHP coding tutorial will teach you how to create a simple and easy to use shopping cart to use on your website. Make sure to watch this shopping cart video tutorial in full!

Create Your Own PHP MYSQL Search Engine

Learn how to make your own search engine using this PHP coding tutorial! There are a ton of ways to design and implement a search engine, but this tutorial shows you a quick easy way.

Login to Analytics API Using PHP

Great little tip / trick that teaches you how to login to the Google Analytics API using PHP. This tutorial will enable you to display the Google Analytics data directly on your app or website without having to log in to Analytics.

PHP File Create & Write

In this PHP coding tutorial, you will learn how to create a file using PHP and write it on your server. This tutorial takes advantage of the fopen() function to create a file. Sounds strange? Well that’s precisely how it works. If you attempt to open a file that doesn’t currently exist on your server, your server will create the file. This tutorial also takes advantage of the fwrite() function to write to a file.

Limit Characters From Your Text

In this tutorial you will learn how to limit characters from a sentence without cutting words up. This is a really useful tutorial for beginner web developers. You’ll learn how it’s done in this helpful step by step tutorial.

Create An Advanced Password Recovery Utility

Learn how to create a very advanced password recovery tool using PHP. This can be useful, and you can implement it in to your website login system. This PHP coding tutorial teaches you how to handle encrypted and unencrypted passwords, basic mySQLi functions, and how to also build in a temporary lockout if the user answers the security question incorrectly too many times.

Error 404 Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pages of a website. This is an awesome tutorial for creating a custom error 404 page. This tutorial teaches you how to spice up the design a bit, add basic navigation and link to the website’s sitemap.

Simple PHP Class For Parsing Markup

This tutorial will teach you how to make a simple class that wraps PHP’s various regex functions in a fluent interface.

PHP based Address Book Using MySQL

Learn how to create a PHP address book and store all the addresses in a MySQL database with this helpful PHP coding tutorial.

Zero Fill a Number

Learn how to make a number a certain amount of characters. Such as 5 you could make to 005. We accomplish this by using the str_pad PHP function.

$string = 777;
$zero = 5;

echo str_pad($string, $zero, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); // 00000777

Simple Private Messaging System – Use PHP to create a PM system

In this tutorial you will learn on how to write a simple Private Messaging System for an existing userlogin script.

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PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is used in many websites on the internet. We have compiled a list of 15 top PHP coding tutorials and tips / tricks to help you better understand it. These should keep you busy for a while. They all can come in handy sometime when you are coding. These PHP tutorials / tips / tricks are either video tutorials which you can watch from this page, or text tutorials where we’ve provided a link to the tutorial.

PHP Ajax Live Search

Ever wondered how to create those awesome looking search boxes where you can see the results in real-time as you are typing? This tutorial teaches you just that. Take advantage of AJAX and learn how to create real-time results in your search box.

How to: Create dynamic XML Sitemap & RSS Feed in PHP and MySQL

XML / RSS is an easy way to make your content global and available to various platforms. In this tutorial, you’ll find out how easy it is to create feeds for your content in PHP.

Scrape Websites with Python

Any info you need, be sure you’ll find it on Wikipedia! In this tutorial, you’ll learn how you can build a small scraper in PHP to fetch basic information about any topic from Wikipedia or any other website.

Single Sign-on Using OpenID, PHP and MySQL

Enable your website / web application to accept OpenID as a way of login. In this tutorial you’ll have a look at how you can enable your site for Open ID logins. You’ll be using PHP and MySQL.

Creating Simple Shopping Cart Using PHP & MySQL

This useful PHP coding tutorial will teach you how to create a simple and easy to use shopping cart to use on your website. Make sure to watch this shopping cart video tutorial in full!

Create Your Own PHP MYSQL Search Engine

Learn how to make your own search engine using this PHP coding tutorial! There are a ton of ways to design and implement a search engine, but this tutorial shows you a quick easy way.

Login to Analytics API Using PHP

Great little tip / trick that teaches you how to login to the Google Analytics API using PHP. This tutorial will enable you to display the Google Analytics data directly on your app or website without having to log in to Analytics.

PHP File Create & Write

In this PHP coding tutorial, you will learn how to create a file using PHP and write it on your server. This tutorial takes advantage of the fopen() function to create a file. Sounds strange? Well that’s precisely how it works. If you attempt to open a file that doesn’t currently exist on your server, your server will create the file. This tutorial also takes advantage of the fwrite() function to write to a file.

Limit Characters From Your Text

In this tutorial you will learn how to limit characters from a sentence without cutting words up. This is a really useful tutorial for beginner web developers. You’ll learn how it’s done in this helpful step by step tutorial.

Create An Advanced Password Recovery Utility

Learn how to create a very advanced password recovery tool using PHP. This can be useful, and you can implement it in to your website login system. This PHP coding tutorial teaches you how to handle encrypted and unencrypted passwords, basic mySQLi functions, and how to also build in a temporary lockout if the user answers the security question incorrectly too many times.

Error 404 Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pages of a website. This is an awesome tutorial for creating a custom error 404 page. This tutorial teaches you how to spice up the design a bit, add basic navigation and link to the website’s sitemap.

Simple PHP Class For Parsing Markup

This tutorial will teach you how to make a simple class that wraps PHP’s various regex functions in a fluent interface.

PHP based Address Book Using MySQL

Learn how to create a PHP address book and store all the addresses in a MySQL database with this helpful PHP coding tutorial.

Zero Fill a Number

Learn how to make a number a certain amount of characters. Such as 5 you could make to 005. We accomplish this by using the str_pad PHP function.

$string = 777;
$zero = 5;

echo str_pad($string, $zero, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); // 00000777

Simple Private Messaging System – Use PHP to create a PM system

In this tutorial you will learn on how to write a simple Private Messaging System for an existing userlogin script.

The post 15 Top PHP Coding Tutorials, Tips and Tricks appeared first on Web Design Blog | Magazine for Designers.

PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is used in many websites on the internet. We have compiled a list of 15 top PHP coding tutorials and tips / tricks  to help you better understand it. These should keep you busy for a while. They all can come in handy sometime when you are coding. These PHP tutorials / tips / tricks are either video tutorials which you can watch from this page, or text tutorials where we’ve provided a link to the tutorial.

PHP Ajax Live Search

Ever wondered how to create those awesome looking search boxes where you can see the results in real-time as you are typing? This tutorial teaches you just that. Take advantage of AJAX and learn how to create real-time results in your search box.

How to: Create dynamic XML Sitemap & RSS Feed in PHP and MySQL

XML / RSS is an easy way to make your content global and available to various platforms. In this tutorial, you’ll find out how easy it is to create feeds for your content in PHP.

Scrape Websites with Python

Any info you need, be sure you’ll find it on Wikipedia! In this tutorial, you’ll learn how you can build a small scraper in PHP to fetch basic information about any topic from Wikipedia or any other website.

Single Sign-on Using OpenID, PHP and MySQL

Enable your website / web application to accept OpenID as a way of login.  In this tutorial you’ll have a look at how you can enable your site for Open ID logins. You’ll be using PHP and MySQL.

Creating Simple Shopping Cart Using PHP & MySQL

This useful PHP coding tutorial will teach you how to create a simple and easy to use shopping cart to use on your website.  Make sure to watch this shopping cart video tutorial in full!

Create Your Own PHP MYSQL Search Engine

Learn how to make your own search engine using this PHP coding tutorial! There are a ton of ways to design and implement a search engine, but this tutorial shows you a quick easy way.

Login to Analytics API Using PHP

Great little tip / trick that teaches you how to login to the Google Analytics API using PHP. This tutorial will enable you to display the Google Analytics data directly on your app or website without having to log in to Analytics.

PHP File Create & Write

In this PHP coding tutorial, you will learn how to create a file using PHP and write it on your server. This tutorial takes advantage of the fopen() function to create a file. Sounds strange? Well that’s precisely how it works. If you attempt to open a file that doesn’t currently exist on your server, your server will create the file. This tutorial also takes advantage of the fwrite() function to write to a file.

Limit Characters From Your Text

In this tutorial you will learn how to limit characters from a sentence without cutting words up. This is a really useful tutorial for beginner web developers. You’ll learn how it’s done in this helpful step by step tutorial.

Create An Advanced Password Recovery Utility

Learn how to create a very advanced password recovery tool using PHP. This can be useful, and you can implement it in to your website login system.  This PHP coding tutorial teaches you how to handle encrypted and unencrypted passwords, basic mySQLi functions, and how to also build in a temporary lockout if the user answers the security question incorrectly too many times.

Error 404 Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pages of a website. This is an awesome tutorial for creating a custom error 404 page. This tutorial teaches you how to spice up the design a bit, add basic navigation and link to the website’s sitemap.

Simple PHP Class For Parsing Markup

This tutorial will teach you how to make a simple class that wraps PHP’s various regex functions in a fluent interface.

PHP based Address Book Using MySQL

Learn how to create a PHP address book and store all the addresses in a MySQL database with this helpful PHP coding tutorial.

Zero Fill a Number

Learn how to make a number a certain amount of characters. Such as 5 you could make to 005. We accomplish this by using the str_pad PHP function.

$string = 777;
$zero = 5;

echo str_pad($string, $zero, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); // 00000777

Simple Private Messaging System – Use PHP to create a PM system

In this tutorial you will learn on how to write a simple Private Messaging System for an existing userlogin script.

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When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure.

I’m here to report that the future is now.

Yes, that’s right, I paid $500 for an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure to fit a $600 video card, all to enable a plug-in upgrade of a GPU on a Skull Canyon NUC that itself cost around $1000 fully built. I know, it sounds crazy, and … OK fine, I won’t argue with you. It’s crazy.

This matters mostly because of 4k, aka 2160p, aka 3840 × 2160, aka Ultra HD.

Plain old regular HD, aka 1080p, aka 1920 × 1080, is one quarter the size of 4k, and ¼ the work. By today’s GPU standards HD is pretty much easy mode these days. It’s not even interesting. No offense to console fans, or anything.

Late in 2016, I got a 4k OLED display and it … kind of blew my mind. I have never seen blacks so black, colors so vivid, on a display so thin. It made my previous 2008 era Panasonic plasma set look lame. It’s so good that I’m now a little angry that every display that my eyes touch isn’t OLED already. I even got into nerd fights over it, and to be honest, I’d still throw down for OLED. It is legitimately that good. Come at me, bro.

Don’t believe me? Well, guess which display in the below picture is OLED? Go on, guess:

@andrewbstiles if it was physically possible to have sex with this TV I.. uh.. I’d take it on long, romantic walks

— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 13, 2016

There’s a reason every site that reviews TVs had to recalibrate their results when they reviewed the 2016 OLED sets.

In my extended review at Reference Home Theater, I call it “the best looking TV I’ve ever reviewed.” But we aren’t alone in loving the E6. Vincent Teoh at HDTVtest writes, “We’re not even going to qualify the following endorsement: if you can afford it, this is the TV to buy.” Rtings.com gave the E6 OLED the highest score of any TV the site has ever tested. Reviewed.com awarded it a 9.9 out of 10, with only the LG G6 OLED (which offers the same image but better styling and sound for $2,000 more) coming out ahead.

But I digress.

Playing games at 1080p in my living room was already possible. But now that I have an incredible 4k display in the living room, it’s a whole other level of difficulty. Not just twice as hard – and remember current consoles barely manage to eke out 1080p at 30fps in most games – but four times as hard. That’s where external GPU power comes in.

The cool technology underpinning all of this is Thunderbolt 3. The thunderbolt cable bundled with the Razer Core is rather … diminutive. There’s a reason for this.

Is there a maximum cable length for Thunderbolt 3 technology?

Thunderbolt 3 passive cables have maximum lengths.

• 0.5m TB 3 (40Gbps)
• 1.0m TB 3 (20Gbps)
• 2.0m TB 3 (20Gbps)

In the future we will offer active cables which will provide 40Gbps of bandwidth at longer lengths.

40Gbps is, for the record, an insane amount of bandwidth. Let’s use our rule of thumb based on ultra common gigabit ethernet, that 1 gigabit = 120 megabytes/second, and we arrive at 4.8 gigabytes/second. Zow.

That’s more than enough bandwidth to run even the highest of high end video cards, but it is not without overhead. There’s a mild performance hit for running the card externally, on the order of 15%. There’s also a further performance hit of 10% if you are in “loopback” mode on a laptop where you don’t have an external display, so the video frames have to be shuttled back from the GPU to the internal laptop display.

This may look like a gamer-only thing, but surprisingly, it isn’t. What you get is the general purpose ability to attach any PCI express card to any computer with a Thunderbolt 3 port and, for the most part, it just works!

Linus breaks it down and answers all your most difficult questions:

Please watch the above video closely if you’re actually interested in this stuff; it is essential. I’ll add some caveats of my own after working with the Razer Core for a while:

• Make sure the video card you plan to put into the Razer Core is not too tall, or too wide. You can tell if a card is going to be too tall by looking at pictures of the mounting rear bracket. If the card extends significantly above the standard rear mounting bracket, it won’t fit. If the card takes more than 2 slots in width, it also won’t fit, but this is more rare. Depth (length) is rarely an issue.

• There are four fans in the Razer Core and although it is reasonably quiet, it’s not super silent or anything. You may want to mod the fans. The Razer Core is a remarkably simple device, internally, it’s really just a power supply, some Thunderbolt 3 bridge logic, and a PCI express slot. I agree with Linus that the #1 area Razer could improve in the future, beyond generally getting the price down, is to use fewer and larger fans that run quieter.

• If you’re putting a heavy hitter GPU in the Razer Core, I’d try to avoid blower style cards (the ones that exhaust heat from the rear) in favor of those that cool with large fans blowing down and around the card. Dissipating 150w+ is no mean feat and you’ll definitely need to keep the enclosure in open air … and of course within 0.5 meters of the computer it’s connected to.

• There is no visible external power switch on the Razer Core. It doesn’t power on until you connect a TB3 cable to it. I was totally not expecting that. But once connected, it powers up and the Windows 10 Thunderbolt 3 drivers kick in and ask you to authorize the device, which I did (always authorize). Then it spun a bit, detected the new GPU, and suddenly I had multiple graphics card active on the same computer. I also installed the latest Nvidia drivers just to make sure everything was ship shape.

• It’s kinda … weird having multiple GPUs simultaneously active. I wanted to make the Razer Core display the only display, but you can’t really turn off the built in GPU – you can select “only use display 2”, that’s all. I got into several weird states where windows were opening on the other display and I had to mess around a fair bit to get things locked down to just one display. You may want to consider whether you have both “displays” connected for troubleshooting, or not.

And then, there I am, playing Lego Marvel in splitscreen co-op at glorious 3840 × 2160 UltraHD resolution on an amazing OLED display with my son. It is incredible.

Beyond the technical “because I could”, I am wildly optimistic about the future of external Thunderbolt 3 expansion boxes, and here’s why:

• The main expense and bottleneck in any stonking gaming rig is, by far, the GPU. It’s also the item you are most likely to need to replace a year or two from now.

• The CPU and memory speeds available today are so comically fast that any device with a low-end i3-7100 for $120 will make zero difference in real world gaming at 1080p or higher … if you’re OK with 30fps minimum. If you bump up to $200, you can get a quad-core i5-7500 that guarantees you 60fps minimum everywhere.

• If you prefer a small system or a laptop, an external GPU makes it so much more flexible. Because CPU and memory speeds are already so fast, 99.9% of the time your bottleneck is the GPU, and almost any small device you can buy with a Thunderbolt 3 port can now magically transform into a potent gaming rig with a single plug. Thunderbolt 3 may be a bit cutting edge today, but more and more devices are shipping with Thunderbolt 3. Within a few years, I predict TB3 ports will be as common as USB3 ports.

• A general purpose external PCI express enclosure will be usable for a very long time. My last seven video card upgrades were plug and play PCI Express cards that would have worked fine in any computer I’ve built in the last ten years.

• External GPUs are not meaningfully bottlenecked by Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth; the impact is 15% to 25%, and perhaps even less over time as drivers and implementations mature. While Thunderbolt 3 has “only” PCI Express x4 bandwidth, many benchmarkers have noted that GPUs moving from PCI Express x16 to x8 has almost no effect on performance. And there’s always Thunderbolt 4 on the horizon.

The future, as they say, is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.

I am painfully aware that costs need to come down. Way, way down. The $499 Razer Core is well made, on the vanguard of what’s possible, a harbinger of the future, and fantastically enough, it does even more than what it says on the tin. But it’s not exactly affordable.

I would absolutely love to see a modest, dedicated $200 external Thunderbolt 3 box that included an inexpensive current-gen GPU. This would clobber any onboard GPU on the planet. Let’s compare my Skull Canyon NUC, which has Intel’s fastest ever, PS4 class embedded GPU, with the modest $150 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti:

1920 × 1080 high detail
Bioshock Infinite	15 ? 79 fps
Rise of the Tomb Raider	12 ? 49 fps
Overwatch	43 ? 114 fps

As predicted, that’s a 3x-5x stompdown. Mac users lamenting their general lack of upgradeability, hear me: this sort of box is exactly what you want and need. Imagine if Apple was to embrace upgrading their laptops and all-in-one systems via Thunderbolt 3.

I know, I know. It’s a stretch. But a man can dream … of externally upgradeable GPUs. That are too expensive, sure, but they are here, right now, today. They’ll only get cheaper over time.

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Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.

If we don’t solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv

— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 11, 2015

Let this pledge be duly noted on the permanent record of the Internet. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife, but I’ll be finding out soon enough, and I plan to go out mad as hell.

The world is absolutely awash in terrible password rules:

• Dumb Password Rules
• Bad Password Policies
• Password Requirements Shaming

But I don’t need to tell you this. The more likely you are to use a truly random password generation tool, like us über-geeks are supposed to, the more likely you have suffered mightily – and daily – under this regime.

Have you seen the classic XKCD about passwords?

We can certainly debate whether “correct horse battery staple” is a viable password strategy or not, but the argument here is mostly that length matters.

No, seriously, it does. I’ll go so far as to say your password is too damn short. These days, given the state of cloud computing and GPU password hash cracking, any password of 8 characters or less is perilously close to no password at all.

So then perhaps we have one rule, that passwords must not be short. A long password is much more likely to be secure than a short one … right?

What about this four character password?

?????

What about this eight character password?

????????

Or this (hypothetical, but all too real) seven character password?

@codinghorror I’m sorry but your password must contain 1 char each from: Arabic, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Klingon, Wingdings and an emoji

— Finley Creative (@FinleyCreative) March 3, 2016

You may also be surprised, if you paste the above four Unicode emojis into your favorite login dialog (go ahead – try it), to discover that it … isn’t in fact four characters.

Oh dear.

"💩".length === 2

Our old pal Unicode strikes again.

As it turns out, even the simple rule that “your password must be of reasonable length” … ain’t necessarily so. Particularly if we stop thinking like Ugly ASCII Americans.

And what of those nice, long passwords? Are they always secure?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
0123456789012345689
passwordpassword
usernamepassword

Of course not, because have you met any users lately?

They consistently ruin every piece of software I’ve ever written. Yes, yes, I know you, Mr. or Ms. über-geek, know all about the concept of entropy. But expressing your love of entropy as terrible, idiosyncratic password rules …

• must contain uppercase
• must contain lowercase
• must contain a number
• must contain a special character

… is a spectacular failure of imagination in a world of Unicode and Emoji.

As we built Discourse, I discovered that the login dialog was a remarkably complex piece of software, despite its surface simplicity. The primary password rule we used was also the simplest one: length. Since I wrote that, we’ve already increased our minimum password default length from 8 to 10 characters. And if you happen to be an admin or moderator, we decided the minimum has to be even more, 12 characters.

I also advocated checking passwords against the 100,000 most common passwords. If you look at 10 million passwords from data breaches in 2016, you’ll find the top 25 most used passwords are:

123456 123456789 qwerty 12345678 111111 1234567890 1234567 password 123123 987654321 qwertyuiop mynoob

123321 666666 18atcskd2w 7777777 1q2w3e4r 654321 555555 3rjs1la7qe google 1q2w3e4r5t 123qwe zxcvbnm 1q2w3e

Even this data betrays some ASCII-centrism. The numbers are the same in any culture I suppose, but I find it hard to believe the average Chinese person will ever choose the passwords “password”, “quertyuiop”, or “mynoob”. So this list has to be customizable, localizable.

(One interesting idea is to search for common shorter password matches inside longer passwords, but I think this would cause too many false positives.)

Also of note: only 5 of the top 25 passwords are 10 characters, so if we require 10 character passwords, we’ve already reduced our exposure to the most common passwords by 80%. I saw this originally when I gathered millions and millions of leaked passwords for Discourse research, then filtered the list down to just those passwords reflecting our new minimum requirement of 10 characters or more. It suddenly became a tiny list. (If you’ve done similar common password research, please do share your results in the comments.)

I’d like to offer the following common sense advice to my fellow developers:

1. Password rules are bullshit

• They don’t work.
• They heavily penalize your ideal audience, people that use real random password generators. Hey guess what, that password randomly didn’t have a number or symbol in it. I just double checked my math textbook, and yep, it’s possible. I’m pretty sure.
• They frustrate average users, who then become uncooperative and use “creative” workarounds that make their passwords less secure.
• Are often wrong, in the sense that they are grossly incomplete and/or insane, per the many shaming links I’ve shared above.
• Seriously, for the love of God, stop with this arbitrary password rule nonsense already. If you won’t take my word for it, read this 2016 NIST password rules recommendation. It’s right there, “no composition rules”. However, I do see one error, it should have said “no bullshit composition rules”.

2. Enforce a minimum Unicode password length

One rule is at least easy to remember, understand, and enforce. This is the proverbial one rule to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

• It’s simple. Users can count. Most of them, anyway.
• It works. The data shows us it works; just download any common password list of your choice and group by password length.
• The math doesn’t lie. All other things being equal, a longer password will be more random – and thus more secure – than a short password.
• Accept that even this one rule isn’t inviolate. A minimum password length of 6 on a Chinese site might be perfectly reasonable.
• If you don’t allow (almost) every single unicode character in the password input field, you are probably doing it wrong.
• It’s a bit of an implementation detail, but make sure maximum password length is reasonable as well.

3. Check for common passwords

As I’ve already noted, the definition of “common” depends on your audience, and language, but it is a terrible disservice to users when you let them choose passwords that exist in the list of 10k, 100k, or million most common known passwords from data breaches. There’s no question that a hacker will submit these common passwords in a hack attempt – and it’s shocking how far you can get, even with aggressive password attempt rate limiting, using just the 1,000 most common passwords.

• 1.6% have a password from the top 10 passwords
• 4.4% have a password from the top 100 passwords
• 9.7% have a password from the top 500 passwords
• 13.2% have a password from the top 1,000 passwords
• 30% have a password from the top 10,000 passwords

Lucky you, there are millions and millions of real breached password lists out there to sift through. It is sort of fun to do data forensics, because these aren’t hypothetical synthetic Jack the Ripper password rules some bored programmer dreamed up, these are real passwords used by real users.

Do the research. Collect the data. Protect your users from themselves.

4. Check for basic entropy

No need to get fancy here; pick the measure of entropy that satisfies you deep in the truthiness of your gut. But remember you have to be able to explain it to users when they fail the check, too.

In my opinion, the simplest way to do this is to ensure that there are at least (x) unique characters out of (y) total characters. And that’s what we do as of the current beta version of Discourse. But I’d love your ideas in the comments, too. The simpler and clearer the better!

5. Reject special case passwords

I’m embarrassed to admit that when building the Discourse login, as I discussed in The God Login, we missed two common cases that you really have to block:

• password equal to username
• password equal to email address

? If you are using Discourse versions earlier than 1.4, I’m so sorry and please upgrade immediately.

Similarly, you might also want to block other special cases like

• password equal to URL or domain of website
• password equal to app name

In short, try to think outside the password input box, like a user would.

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