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Welcome to The Art of Web

The aim of this site is to present code examples, comments and solutions for programmers looking to broaden their horizons. The code is designed to be read, understood and customised, so not simply cut-and-pasted into your site.

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  1. CSS: border-radius and -moz-border-radius
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  3. JavaScript: Escaping Special Characters
  4. PHP: Parsing HTML to find Links
  5. PHP: Exporting Data to Excel
  6. CSS: Placing text over an inline image

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Site Contents

  • HTML - tips and examples
  • CSS - links, tips and examples
  • JavaScript - programming tips and examples
  • PHP - programming tips and examples
  • SQL - tips and example
  • System - system commands, mod_rewrite and other 'tricks'
  • Links - useful links

I hope that you find something here that's not only useful, but inspirational!

About this Site

The Art of Web is a showcase and testing ground for Chirp Internet, a web development and consulting company that has been producing quality PHP and database-driven websites since 1997. Chirp was based in Canberra, Australia until 2003 when we re-located to The Netherlands (Holland) and then in 2008 to Romania. Our clients are mostly in Australia, Europe and the United States.

If you have problems implementing any of the code presented on this site, or you're looking for something we haven't covered, then you can contact us by clicking on the Feedback link that appears on every page. We welcome your comments, questions and criticism.

Duncan Crombie
Freelance Web Developer


User Comments and Notes

9 June 2009: Becky Sher says:

Very beautiful Chinese calligraphy you chose. Love it.

However, it does not match the English title. To translate the Chinese writing, it means "The Web of Art". To correct it, the third character needs to be at the top and add another character in between.

Thanks Becky. A friend of a friend in China wrote the characters for me herself so it's not something I can easily change. Actually I'm happy to hear that it's so close in any case, and maybe there are different ways it can be interpreted


26 October 2009: Ghodmode says:

Great site. It looks like there is a lot of useful and interesting information here. I'd sure like an RSS feed to follow that told me when you posted some new information

Thanks for the feedback. I've added an RSS feed now that will includes links to new articles as they are released.


7 July 2010: Torres says:

The Chinese character there is correct. Very often when translated from chinese character to English the words or sentence structure is inverted.

Good to know. Thanks


13 August 2010: Sarah says:

Just happened upon your site this evening and find it a real joy to use. Clean, correct, helpful, and lovely to look at. Thanks for providing such a thoughtfully designed service. I will recommend it to the rest of my team.

Thanks! If I only had more time to keep it updated...


27 August 2010: Manny says:

Howzit? Excellent site. Hits the spot. Added it to my favourites. Thanks for all your efforts. I'll be keeping an eye... . Cheers.


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