I joined Assembly Studios today (originally Smoothe Ltd), a London based creative agency who have won several awards including the Big C... Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/new-job-at-assembly-studios Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:55:00 +0000 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/januarys-designer-of-the-Month Ben Tadiar
I submitted my website to the Professional Web Design Directory today. The directory lists freelancers and website design companies around the UK, along with their Google pagerank, to provide a useful resource for individuals and businesses who are looking for a web designer. I received an email abo... Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/januarys-designer-of-the-Month Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:19:43 +0000 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/let-me-talk-2-u-creative-commons Ben Tadiar
Let Me Talk To You by Ben TadiarRead More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/let-me-talk-2-u-creative-commons Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:30:13 +0000 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/creative-juice-featured-on-css-mania Ben Tadiar

Checked my emails this morning to find that the new Creative Juice Solutions website has been featured on CSS Mania. Take a look Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/creative-juice-featured-on-css-mania Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:10:20 +0000 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/dynamic-meta-tags-using-php-output-buffering Ben Tadiar

Meta tags are elements placed in the head section of an (X)HTML document, used to provide information about a Web page, such as keywords, a description and information about the author. On occasion, in fact more frequently than not, we want this metadata to differ across multiple pages of a websi... Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/dynamic-meta-tags-using-php-output-buffering Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:26:19 +0000 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/the-birth-of-avalyn-rose Ben Tadiar

Our beautiful daughter finally arrived on 21st October at 3:15am having decided to come a week late. The 9 month wait finally came to an end in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a very painful 48 hours for Jessica. Avalyn Rose was delivered by natural birth at Derriford Hospital, weighin... Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/the-birth-of-avalyn-rose Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:02:12 +0000 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/jquery-php-mysql-username-availability-checker Ben Tadiar

In my first tutorial I will teach you how to create a username availability checker using jQuery and PHP to query your MySQL database. I found this to be a nice feature while working on a user registration form so thought I would share.

So, first of all we need to create a form. In this e... Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/jquery-php-mysql-username-availability-checker Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:01:36 +0100 http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/welcome-to-my-website Ben Tadiar

Firstly, I'd like to welcome you to my website and to my very first blog post. I've spent a while designing and redesigning (and redesigning... You get the picture, right?) this website over the last couple of months and I am finally happy with the result. I decided to redesign my site for a numb... Read More]]> http://www.bentadiar.co.uk/post/welcome-to-my-website Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:55:00 +0100