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Banner Design Logo Placement Tips

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:51:48 +0000

When designing skyscraper banners (160x600 and 130x160…etc.) try incorporating your logo in to the top and bottom portions of your banner layouts. If you only want to include one logo, try positioning the logo in the top or middle portions of the banner. If you only include your brand identity at the bottom, it’s will most likely fall below the fold (below the initial browser window area) and out of view of the user. Having a logo atop of the banner insures the viewer will be able to identity the brand associated with the message and call to actions.

Adium and Yahoo IM Not Working

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:42:44 +0000

Did you notice that your Yahoo login stopped working lately? That is because Yahoo changed the way their im protocol works. You will have to download 1.3.5 update from Adium from here: http://adium.im/blog/2009/06/adium-135rc1/

Adium 1.3.5rc1

Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike “Maiku” Ruprecht)

Sending email via SMTP on OS X with PHP

admin — Sat, 02 Aug 2003 00:22:11 +0000

How to set up OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)'s Apache / PHP environment to process scripts which send email out over the internet. This is really good for those who are having problems with the PHP Mail function. Introduction How to set up OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)'s Apache / PHP environment to process scripts which send email out over the internet. This is really good for those who are having problems with the PHP Mail function. PHP EMAIL SOLUTION: Here is a link to a site that contains a php class and sample email test script that will communicate directly with your ISP's SMTP server: http://www.phpguru.org/smtp.html 1. Download the file and place it anywhere in your website directory. 2. Edit the example test php script to use SMTP parameter values valid for your ISP account, and format a test message to a valid email address. 3. Execute the sample php script (which uses the PHP 'include' function to access the SMTP class script sitting in the same directory. This should work just fine. If you are having problems finding the right information to edit the SMTP values, contact your internet service provider to uptain your e-mailing info.

Sending Email with PHP

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:22:11 +0000

PHP mail() function can automatically send email thru the internet. This is how it's done. Example 1. Sending mail.

mail("joecool@example.com", "My Subject", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3");

Example 2. Sending mail with extra headers.

mail("nobody@example.com", "the subject", $message,
     "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."Reply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

Example 3. Sending mail with extra headers and setting an additional command line parameter.

mail("nobody@example.com", "the subject", $message,
     "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME", "-fwebmaster@$SERVER_NAME");

You can also use simple string building techniques to build complex email messages.

Example 4. Sending complex email.

/* recipients */
$to  = "Mary " . ", " ; // note the comma
$to .= "Kelly ";

/* subject */
$subject = "Birthday Reminders for August";

/* message */
$message = '

Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!



Person
Day
Month
Year


Joe
3rd
August
1970


Sally
17th
August
1973


';

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* additional headers */
$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder \r\n";

$headers .= "Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

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