Web programming is a passion as much as it is a service. The Variables Company has over 10 years of corporate and freelance web development experience. In person or online, we work closely with our clients to understand their project requirements and get a sense of their personal style. We can give advice about how to make your website useful and offer resources in a variety of fields including copy editing, photography and marketing.
Contact us to find out how we can work together to get more out of your web project.
Core Services: Web Development | Web Project Consultation
Online & Web Services
24Jul 11
How to connect to a web server with FTP
Here is a basic tutorial on how to connect to a remote web server from your computer using an FTP client.
19Apr 11
Back-end for Front-Enders: XML to MySQL – insert and update
Freelancing can take a developer in many directions that they wouldn’t get to go in a specific company role. The three years that I spent in front-end development taught me a lot about jQuery, CSS and conditional PHP but it really even touch on handling data. The terms ‘sanitize’ and ‘data object’ are still new-ish [...]
24Jan 11
Captcha isn’t fool-proof
There are many methods available to help fight spam, however, none offer complete protection against manual labourers.
20Jan 11
Less Framework 3
Less Framework is a cross-device css grid system based on using inline media queries. The core idea is to first create a default layout normally, and then additional layouts using inline media queries. Any browsers incompatible with media queries will simply ignore the additional layouts, and will only use the default one. The additional layouts will inherit any [...]
18Jan 11
SeaDragon Deep Zooming image AJAX
Seadragon Ajax is a Deep Zoom viewing library implemented in pure JavaScript. It supports the same single image file format that Silverlight Deep Zoom uses, but does not support Deep Zoom Collections. http://seadragon.com/developer/ajax/
18Jan 11
concrete5
CMS made for Marketing but built for Geeks concrete5 is a content management system that is free and open source. http://www.concrete5.org/
21Nov 10
Drupal Development
Drupal is a powerful Content Management System. It is open-source and can be downloaded for free, with the support of a large free to use community of developers creating tools to extend and enhance the Drupal core. While it is sometimes to large of a program to recommend for every website, medium-to-large scale businesses looking [...]
21Nov 10
PHP mail script that looks good in Gmail, Outlook and iMail!
I spent a long time clumsily messing around with Php’s mail() function. After failing to figure out how to satisfy the header requirements to for HTML e-mails that looked good in Gmail, Outlook and iMail (rather… in every possible viewing scenario), I found Swiftmailer.
22May 10
WordPress 101 Package
Want to build a dynamic, database driven website from the ground up? Don’t know jack about coding?
The Variables Company has a great package to get new users established with WordPress. Get one-on-one instruction on how to set up and edit maintain a powerful and flexible website.