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22i DESiGN » Design Blog » Design Blog: November 2006

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Dreamweaver 8 Memory Leaks

OK, sacrilege... I'm designing & developing websites on an XP Pro laptop, with Dreamweaver 8 and not a Mac *shock horror*

But I've got my Windows Task Manager running and the bar is ALL GREEN meaning something's maxing out my processor. You'd think with a 1.73MHz Intel and 2GHz of RAM that Dreamweaver would play nicely? Oh no...

I just saved all my work, shut Dreamweaver 8 off and now everything's back to normal.

Come on Macromedia or should I say Adobe. Sort it out. I've downloaded the latest patch for Dreamweaver 8 (and the nag box doesn't go away when I download and install) and ever since then I've had some of my site definition data corrupted (I have to enter the FTP details EVERY TIME I log into one particular site despite saving the log in data)

It's annoying bugs like this that impede designers' and developers' workflow and it's not funny. And I'm not the only one.

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Monday, November 27, 2006

is4profit ReVamp


Well, let me just breathe a huge sigh of relief...

*huge sigh of relief*

We've just launched phase I of the revamped is4profit UK small business website. Visually it's virtually the same as the previous website, but technically there's a shiny new custom Content Mangement System under there, all-singing, all-dancing, powerful and quick too.

The main advantages to the company are:
  • Faster deployment of new content
  • Therefore deployment of MORE content
  • Superior content management, control & categorisation
  • Greater flexibility & power to target advertising
  • Opportunities to enhance SEO
  • Housekeeping - culling old files & articles
  • Fully optmised dedicated server
  • Cleaner code means leaner pages deployed quicker
  • + too many other little bonuses to go into right now
If you don't know these is4profit people, they provide free online information for UK small business owners with everything from the National Minimum Wage to Government Grants and facts on Copyright.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Optimising CSS #2

Remember we spoke about optimising CSS the other day? Well, after reading a Joomla forum post entitled Speed up Joomla, there was a link in there to a neat little tool over at Flumpcakes.co.uk, their CSS Optimiser.

I just banged a 15k stylesheet and it saved 3k for me. Thanks :)

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

CSS by Browser

You write good HTML and good CSS.

In Firefox, the most standards-compliant browser, everything works just fine without you having to hack the CSS.

Then in IE6 you have to do some hacks to get it to work.

MS then releases IE7, it's most standards-compliant browser to date.

You now have to have separate styles for Firefox, IE6 and now IE7.

Here's how you deliver a stylesheet based on browser detection by placing some code within the page's <head> tags...

For example... If the new IE7 is more compliant and works with similar styles to Firefox then we need to introduce a CSS detector for IE6 or less...
<!--[if lt IE 7]><br /><link href="/stylesfolder/mystylesheetfor_ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><br /><![endif]-->
The first line asks if "Less Than IE7" then deliver the specific stylesheet for IE6 and under so this would also be valid...
<!--[if lte IE 6]><br /><link href="/stylesfolder/mystylesheetfor_ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><br /><![endif]-->
The first line is asking if "Less Than or Equal to IE6" so performs the same job.

Now, what about all the other browsers, how do you name and identify them?

Browser Codes [browser]:
  • gecko - Mozilla, Firefox, Camino
  • ie - Internet Explorer (All versions)
  • ie6 - Internet Explorer 6.x
  • ie5 - Internet Explorer 5.x
  • opera - Opera (All versions)
  • opera8 - Opera 8.x
  • opera9 - Opera 9.x
  • konqueror - Konqueror
  • webkit or safari - Safari, NetNewsWire, OmniWeb, Shiira
So there you have it :)

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