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Update Your Website Copyright With Some Simple PHP

Tony Virelli — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:00:24 +0000

Ok, so every year web designers have the all dreaded task of updating the copyright on their designs. This isn’t so bad if you work for 1 company, but if you work for a design firm like I do and have tons of clients websites to update it can be a time eating task.

So to fix this problem I wrote this super small, super easy bit of code. It’s nothing special, but it gets the job done.


$startYear=2010; //Enter the starting year of the copyright.
if($startYear < date("Y")){
	echo $startYear."-".date("Y");
}else{
	echo $startYear;
}
?>

And for the function lovers


function updateCopyright($startYear){
	if($startYear < date("Y")){
		echo $startYear."-".date("Y");
	}else{
		echo $startYear;
	}
}
?>
//Usage: Copyright ©  echo updateCopyright(2010); ?> Company Name

There ya go!

Isn’t making your life easier fun!? I sure think so!

Iconfinder – Great Source For Open Source Icons

Tony Virelli — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:57:46 +0000

Iconfinder provides high quality icons for web designers and developers in an easy and efficient way. You can either search by keyword, browse individual icons, or entire icon sets! I use Iconfinder.net whenever I need icons for a back-end design or web application.

Vist Iconfinder.net for more information!

Add Content To Your Site During Development

Tony Virelli — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:46 +0000

If you’re like me you can’t stand to cut up a design only have it look like junk due to no content. Sometimes you just need content to help fill in the cracks. The old stand by for this is good old Lorem Ipsum!

Most people are accustom to seeing Lorem Ipsum if they have ever worked in the design industry, print industry or if they have ever bought a website template.

You can even go to http://www.lipsum.com/ to use the generator to get a specific number of paragraphs, words, bytes or list of Lorem Ipsum content.

However, if you find Lorem Ipsum to be “passe” then here are some alternatives you might like:

TEXT|GENERATOR by http://www.malevole.com
“This text generator has been developed based on years of careful research and is guaranteed to improve even the most lacklustre of designs.”

adhesiontext by http://www.adhesiontext.com
“A text tool that generates dummy text, with a limited set of characters, for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Russian and Greek.”

HintPlus+ by http://www.hintplus.com
“This project is created for sole purpose as an alternate to Lorem Ipsum dummy text for publishing templates.”