Here's a small simple PHP function that allows you to check if a website is responding or not.

This function is especially usefull if you have a link database and want to run maintenance to see which links are up or down

Welcome to version 4 of paulparadise.co.uk. Over the last few months I have been re-doing this website, it has gone through a major facelift and re-write. The site is now powered by Paradise CMS built on the codeigniter framework.

What is para tip you maybe asking? Simple answer is, it's a light weight tool tip plugin for jQuery. It's under 2kb in size.

Now down to the geeky stuff.

You will need jQuery 1.4.2 or newer for this, you can get it from jQuery.com

Step 1.
Create a file called paratip.js and save it, then copy and paste the following code into the file.

Have you ever wanted a drop down box just like the ones on the new facebook layout?

Welcome to the re-launch of paulparadise.co.uk. Over the last month I have been very busy in my spare time re-doing this website

While I was building the blog system for this website I was looking for some Javascript that would read a textarea and generate random tags from it, but I couldn't find one and decided to make one.

I'm posting this blog as I've been asked by some people how i did my menu at the top, so this is how its done. is