Create time-sensitive CSS sites

In today’s web design environment it takes more and more to attract visitors visually, and even more to make them keep coming back. Of course, this mostly depends on content, but small, subtle details can make any visitor become excited. In this tutorial you’ll create a time-sensitive CSS site that changes its background based on the time a person visits it. Afterwards, you should have the knowledge needed to adapt the script to any other data you want to use.

All server-side examples in this tutorial will be based on PHP, so make sure you have a working test environment with PHP5 enabled. If you’re using any other server-side scripting tool it’s likely there’ll be a guide to accomplish a similar effect online. However, reading through this guide you’ll probably recognise similar syntax and functions, enabling you to convert it to the language you’re using.

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