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  • oldversion.com
    Recently I’ve had to do some projects involving Adobe Acrobat reader – open the PDF, take the text, transplant it into a design. Easy huh? Well, not so easy… I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader 7 but it wouldn’t install and I didn’t have my Acrobat 4 disc to hand, so I did [...]
  • WP Category Order
    I was just helping out over at the Everything’s Gone Green green news & lifestyle website when I noticed that their Categories over in the RHS of their page were out of order. So a quick sniff around the web showed up the excellent WordPress plugin by David Coppit: Category Order 1.9.5 (at the WordPress [...]
  • Static content to Joomla
    Joomla TIP: I was just converting my static HTML content over to Joomla CMS when I realised that creating new categories can lead to a reverse alphabetical ordering. So the Joomla tip of the day is to enter new categories and content in reverse order, starting with the Zs and finally inputting the As. PS: [...]
  • HTML Tidy
    A great item for any designer’s toolbox is the HTML or Tidy Online. Whilst shifting thousands of pages of legacy HTML code from one system to another (flat, individual HTML pages to Content Management System (CMS)) I found that numerous people had hacked the code over a period of 5 years… …and HTML tidy made [...]
  • FF2B2 KW Density
    Another useful featured stumbled upon… Using the latest Firefox 2 Beta 2 build I was cutting & pasting some code from a web page back back into Dreamweaver when I right-clicked the highlighted code and noticed some new right-click functions… underneath the usual Copy & Select All were these little beauties… Highlight Keyword…Show Keyword Density…Search [...]
  • !important CSS hack
    Ever looked at a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and wondered why all the !important declarations all over the place? Well, I was creating some stylesheets the other day for a site and was getting exceedingly frustrated with the cross-browser compatibility issues. Although I was writing clean HTML, accessible & standards-compliant, the difference in layout between [...]
  • RGB to Hex
    So… I want to incorporate some Chitika eMiniMall code into my blog and the option is there to change the colours… border, title, text, background; not too disimilar to the Google AdSense code options. I can’t remember the pale shade of blue I used so I screen grab the blog page and… …Oh. I’m at [...]
  • Joomla local testing
    So, you want to test your Joomla! CMS installation on a local machine huh? Well, historically it hasn’t always been easy to load up Microsoft’s IIS and run sites, and that’s coming from someone who has been in this game for nearly ten years now. You can imagine my relief when I stumbled across Joomla [...]
  • Firefox 2 Beta 2
    There’s a shiny new version of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 out now. Get it while it’s hot.
  • Joomla! 1.0.11
    If you’re still runnning Joomla! 1.0.10 then you should immediately upgrade to Joomla! 1.0.11[Sunbird] The latest version of Joomla! has a number of general bug fixes plus some low, medium and high level security patches which MUST be implemented in order for your Joomla! application to remain secure.

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