2008 January

PHP Tide Clock

January 19th, 2008 dawhoo

Here’s a quick little script for predicting tides. Be sure and change the high tide time on line 2. You may have to play around with the numbers a little to get it working on your site. Please, don’t ever use this script for navigational purposes. Seriously, this is a rough estimate and not for marine navigation purposes.

Tides depend on many factors, sun, moon, wind and some other things I don’t understand. But I do understand tides differ by a set amount of time in most places - usually. I developed this code to work for Folly Beach, but it will work in locations with a 12:50 time difference between high tides. As a general rule, this works fairly well, but you will still need to update the tides occasionally or during time changes. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Few Pics

January 18th, 2008 dawhoo

Just a few photos from around the area…

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Why your eCommerce site is down in the dumps

January 17th, 2008 dawhoo

So, you’ve finally got an online site for your brick and mortar store - that’s great. You’ve entered all of your products, uploaded images, provided detailed descriptions. but why isn’t anyone buying from your site? Here’s a list of some of the most common reasons your site is failing to meet your expectations.

Unreasonable Expectations: If you think you’re going to make a site and sit by as the customers roll in, Read the rest of this entry »