A Simple PHP CAPTCHA Script

Published on January 16, 2011

This is one of the easiest CAPTCHA scripts you will ever use. While it doesn’t obscure the text, it will serve its purpose well for many people who need a low-level CAPTCHA solution. This script requires little-to-no setup. The only dependency is the PHP GD library. Continue reading →

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Surreal CMS Celebrates 10,000 Websites

Published on October 1, 2010

On November 11, 2008, we reached a huge milestone in our company’s history.  That was the day we launched our first web-based content management service. Almost two years later, on October 1st, 2010, we are excited to announce that Surreal CMS now powers over 10,000 websites! Continue reading →

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Surreal CMS Adds Change Notifications

Published on July 17, 2010

A lot of designers have been asking for this lately, so we decided to launch Change Notifications over at Surreal CMS today.  This new feature allows Pro users to receive emails whenever their editors publish changes to any of their websites.
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Tips for Supporting UTF-8 in Your PHP5 Applications

Published on July 6, 2010

Here are some great tips that will help any PHP5 developer support UTF-8 in their applications.  This list isn’t comprehensive, but it will allow you to do most basic operations while avoiding troublesome character encoding issues. Continue reading →

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Why Adobe InContext Editing Will Never Be the Same

Published on April 22, 2010

Adobe’s recent announcement to discontinue their free InContext Editing service has surprised and outraged many web designers.  However, the service isn’t really being discontinued.  Instead, it is getting integrated with Adobe’s Business Catalyst service.  As a result, come 2011, designers who wish to continue using InContext Editing’s functionality for their clients will have to do so with a paid subscription to Business Catalyst (BC). Continue reading →

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Adobe InContext Editing Users Speak Out

Published on April 22, 2010

First and foremost, I am not targeting Adobe as a company, but rather their decision to abruptly end the InContext Editing content management service.  It is evident by the recent uproar in their own forum that many people feel misled, deceived, or otherwise disenchanted by this announcement — an announcement that will ultimately leave thousands of designers without a reasonably-priced content management solution for their clients. Continue reading →

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Sending Plain-text + HTML Emails in PHP

Published on April 18, 2010

You can easily add some basic headers and send HTML emails using the PHP mail() function, but sometimes the resulting messages don’t seem to display correctly in certain email clients — especially those that don’t support HTML emails.  The best thing to do is send both a plain-text version and an HTML version of your message in the same email. Continue reading →

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Adobe Discontinues InContext Editing Service

Published on April 12, 2010

Adobe has announced that, effective May 5th, 2010, their InContext Editing service will be discontinued.  The company has announced that they will cease development of the online content management service and disallow new users and website registrations at that time.  Existing users will be able to continue using it through early to mid-2011.  After that, Adobe InContext Editing will shutdown indefinitely as a standalone service. Continue reading →

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Surreal CMS Gets Google Analytics, Syntax Highlighting

Published on April 10, 2010

Last week we launched a couple of new features over at Surreal CMS.  The first one, and probably the most exciting, is Google Analytics Integration.  Using OAuth, pro users can safely and securely give their clients access to their website’s analytics information — and it’s just as easy to use as everything else in Surreal CMS: Continue reading →

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A Fresh, Free Sans-serif Typeface called ”Maven”

Published on April 10, 2010

Our friends over at Vissol have just released a beautiful new typeface into the wild.  If you’re into typography and you like free fonts, you definitely want to check out Maven. Continue reading →

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