Rewrite We *heart* canonical URIs [Note – I’ve recently come accross a web hosting company that disallows Options +FollowSymLinks. When used their server throws an internal error page – you may need to replace with the more secure (on shared… Continue Reading →
I had been using a JavaScript solution from javascriptkit.com to randomly show one option from a series on a page. All the options are wrapped in DIVs and placed in a single include file. This first solution used JS to… Continue Reading →
Update 2009 I’ve now jumped to the other side of the fence. In the name of speed and slowly [oh so slowly] dying share of IE6 I’ve stopped trying to pander to it. There’s a few extra bugs and issues… Continue Reading →
Update Well in the end I couldn’t get this to work. Too noob. So I’ve settled on old school versioning. Not really an issue in the end as the extra overhead (working on a duplicated and renamed the CSS file)… Continue Reading →
As IE can only work reliably in exclusion of other versions. the most (or only) reliable way to test various versions of IE on one machine is using virtualization. Amazing but oh-so-true. VPC images for ie6 ie7 and ie8 for… Continue Reading →
Web Developer Web Developer Firebug Yahoo YSlow for Firebug Live HTTP Headers Video grabbing Clipta. There’s plugin out there – but you won’t be able to find it on the Clipta site – Google my friend.
There’s in interesting article over at vitamin by Paul Boag entitled The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS. Of course these costs must be allowed for in any serious CMS implementation strategy. Not much emphasis is given to the very… Continue Reading →
Finding a Flash slideshow generator to use for a fancy site we’re working on… The Daddy Monoslideshow. Fully featured and customisable Flash slideshow generator. The best bet for us cheap ass developers. A bargain at $19.95. The also-rans Slideroll. Free Flickr/Youtube-like… Continue Reading →
Right now trying to develop a web magazine. Also bearing in mind the need to be able to bash out other smaller websites with minimum hassle. Solution should allow Mac OS X and web based editing. Drupal is proving to be… Continue Reading →
Update 2 Thanks to this great list of open-source apps for Mac OS X there another option to look at: AbiWord. I’ve not tried it yet but it looks set to beat my non-starting attempts with OpenOffice (office Mac is PowerPC… Continue Reading →
I couldn’t get Drupal to generate Clean URLs yesterday despite following all the steps. Couldn’t work out why my test install wouldn’t do this simple trick when this blog already has a mod_rewrite (RewriteEngine) activated – and the Drupal test site in… Continue Reading →
[Update 2009 – OK now I’m not the total newbie anymore and would have to recommend Shadowbox on top of jQuery for it’s versatility and power. Slimbox is still great though.] The Contenders Slimbox The true successor to the king… Continue Reading →
It’s taken quite a few hours of trial and error and things not working – but in the end it’s not too complicated. In essence getting your video onto a webpage is a two part process – encode into FLV… Continue Reading →
Mine’s just fine now. When trying to upload a photo via WordPress’ interface I used to get this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted Couldn’t find a quick fix and worked around it using Flickr until… Continue Reading →
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