Microsoft and Apple computers are no doubt the web designers choice when it comes to creating websites. Adobe software has become the niche and the creative professionals favourite for many years. Linux on the other hand has improved considerably over the past few years and now it is possible to create beautiful websites with the plethora of tools available. Here are a few of those tools to get your creative juices flowing.

I have been learning jQuery alongside PHP to help with my event manager project. Here is a tutorial on how to get the values of a checkbox array, post it via a jQuery Ajax call and subsequently delete the values from a MYSQL database. This tutorial also makes use of the jQuery UI which will display our dialogs.

I have been quite busy over the past few months. First of all I have built a website for my friend from scratch and I have just started working on my event manager, which is on version 2.

Following on from getting to grips with PHP Checkboxes I decided to write a little tutorial on radio buttons. As you know radio buttons can only have 1 state either on or off and only one can be selected at any one time. Here is a simple tutorial on how to get data from a database, select the radio button, get data from the form and update the database.

The aim of this tutorial is simply to get the data from a checkbox and store it in a MYSQL database and on page load the data is retrieved from the database and is shown which would be suitable for an options page in a web app.

Back in 2009 I wrote a post on how to display twitter posts on your site. I went back to it recently and decided to tweak it further. As you see it is now updated to include ‘time since’ post. Check my sidebar for an example. I would like to thank JR over at IF Not True Then False for the handy PHP function.

There are lots of resources out there for displaying your latest twitter posts in your website. Some of them require plugins or some may require Javascript to work. After trying a few scripts I came across a little PHP script from The Lylo Files that displays up to 20 of your posts on your web site. After using it for a little while I decided to make it more functional.

This is an alternative to my recent post Blog display using the more tag as that method worked on my testing server but it decided to give me 404 errors whilst navigating.