Hide FTP Files and Folders
Websites require a lot of files to run and a lot of configuration files that you shouldn’t be messing with. For instance, on a Shared cPanel host I have, the main directory is littered with far too many unnecessary files and folders. These files can’t be deleted since they are required but only required for the server software and not of any use to me. The good news is, you probably already have the solution on your computer to hide these files for good (or until I need to see them again).
Animated HTML Progress Bar CSS
In previous posts we talked about JSONp requests and doing drag and drop uploads. But with those tutorials, we didn’t look into making them look nice. Today we are going to create a simple all CSS animated progress bar.
The Resources You will need a pattern image that is transparent or the same color as your loading bar. Below you can download the image I use for a lot of my loading bars since it’s transparent and just makes part of the background darker so it works on all colors.
Round Images using CSS
On your site, you may have the need for round images or images that are circles instead of squares. Without having to run the image through a script to make it round, you can use CSS3. This method is supported in nearly every browser now, but I will include prefixes so it will be even more compatible.
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <style> /* Styles will be placed here */ </style> </head> <body> <img src="square.
Methods to Fight Comment Spam
With the increase in spam over the last few years, preventing comment spam is getting even more difficult. Bots are running JavaScript, learning what fields to populate and more. But, if you implement enough features, you can fight back and be almost spam free.
Method 1: Moderate Comments For every comment you receive, you read through it before it gets posted to your site or blog. Most blogging systems have a moderation page where you have to manually approve each comment, but people end up disabling this or allowing only users to post comments.
Gravatar Avatars and Profiles
It’s great when various websites work together, so you don’t need multiple accounts and can be easily identified between said sites. Well, part of this is already going on, and has been going on for a while. A large amount of websites, including all WordPress sites use an avatar system and site called Gravatar. Even this site implements Gravatar. Not only does Gravatar help you identify the same people on various blogs in the same realm (or all over), Gravatar is extremely easy to implement and can prevent some security issues of having users upload images to your server if you are new to upload security.