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26 Aug 2005

The Weather And D-Day

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  • Sprite Picks

— UKSprite @ 8:00 am

The BBC weather website discusses how the weather affected the D-Day invasion of Europe during the Second World War.

Fawlty Towers – What The Cast Did Next?

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  • Television

— UKSprite @ 7:44 am

The final episode of the classic comedy Fawlty Towers was filmed 30 years ago, but what have the cast been doing since?

UKTV has all the answers in this article.

11 Apr 2005

How To Create A PHP Login System With Admin Features

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  • Webmaster
  • Hints And Tips

— UKSprite @ 12:31 pm

If you need to create a members only area for website you need a system to allow new users to register and existing users to login and logout.

There are serveral ways to achieve this, but one of the best is using PHP and this excellent tutorial from evolt.org.

8 Apr 2005

New Web Directory

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  • General
  • UKSprite
  • Announcements

— UKSprite @ 8:46 am

UKSprite is currently accepting free URL submissions to our new web directory.

Go to the web directory.

26 Mar 2005

Site Submit Popup Advertising To Close

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  • UKSprite
  • Announcements

— UKSprite @ 11:07 am

From Monday 28 March UKSprite will no longer be accepting popup advertising through the Site Submit service and the popup system will be completely de-activated by the middle of April.

Site Submit accounts currently using popup advertising will be able to use remaining funds with their pay per click listings.

Firefox GIF Security Hole Fixed – Users Advised To Update

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  • General

— UKSprite @ 1:20 am

The Mozilla Foundation has issued an update to its Firefox browser to patch a security hole

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2 Mar 2005

PHP Designer 2005

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  • Webmaster
  • Hints And Tips

— UKSprite @ 4:25 pm

If you are looking for a feature-packed PHP editor that won’t break the bank take a look PHP Designer 2005.

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1 Mar 2005

Protect Your WordPress Blog From Comment Spam

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  • Webmaster
  • Hints And Tips

— UKSprite @ 6:14 pm

Comment spam in blogs is on the increase. If you run a blog you will know how time-consuming it can be to delete many entries in your comments that are simply spam.

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14 Feb 2005

UKSprite Googlewhacked!

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  • General

— UKSprite @ 10:25 am

Yes, late in January UKSprite was Googlewhacked!

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11 Feb 2005

Quick Tip: Aligning CSS Boxes In A Row

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  • Webmaster
  • Hints And Tips

— UKSprite @ 5:00 pm

It is common using tables to align one or more tables next to each other. It’s easy to acheive the same effect using css. All you need to do is float your divs! Read more to find out how…

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