I’ve been using Chris Pederick’s FireFox Developer’s Toolbar for a couple of years now and there are so many times when it has come in extremely handy. It basically runs through the browser window and can be used to disable images, get their dimensions & paths, edit live CSS, outline tables & cells, show hidden […]
Somebody recently pointed out the handy little SearchStatus toolbar from Quirk. Currently I’ve got it in the status bar of FireFox (also available for Mozilla too) where it doesn’t intrude upon too much screen real estate, but it’s what SearchStatus does that’s really handy. The toolbar shows Alexa data such as traffic details, incoming links, related
So – do you design a website for fixed width or 100% width? What do you mean? Well, a fixed width page or a fixed width site will be exactly that – a fixed width. Being oldschool I’m used to the time when everyone had 800×600 desktops and, allowing for browser scrollbars and the like, you’d probably design a website
OK, so we can put HTML tags in Blogger comments, but how do we put HTML links in Blogger posts? Let’s start with a useful example – linking from your post to a webpage. We’ll put a link in you blog to the BBC website (just like there, did you see that?) HTML links in Blog posts –
Server Side Includes are a simple way of distributing common content across a website. Take, for instance, a menu system. If you run a site with X amount of HTML pages then you would normally have to change X pages of code in which the menu system is used. It’s OK if you can do a global
So, you have a website designed for your client and no content to pad it out… Q. What do you do? A. You fill it with dummy text. The usual “filler” for new pages is the traditional typesetters’ Lorem Ipsum dummy text, popular with traditional print designers. Using Lorem Ipsum has been a thing since the 16th century,
This post on CHMODt666 is for users of the Digital Point Co-op Ad Network… As of April 2005 I noticed the CHMOD (Unix CHange MODe) command was revised for the ad network text files. Previously it was CHMOD777 – Now it’s CHMOD 666. So what is CHMOD 666? CHMOD 666 means the User, Group and
Having a reference to ASCII and Hex codes for HTML is always handy. Often there are times when encoded text needs to be looked up – the ones that often crop up being %20 (space) and %2F (forward slash) and he copyright symbol ©, trademark symbol ™, with accents for foreign language words such as
22i design have just launched the Meon Valley Mill website. Meon Valley Mill is a small company in rural southern England. They specialise in wool processing services for craftspeople and smallholdings. They required a clean and friendly website to introduce their dyeing, carding and spinning services with room to expand upon future features such as news, events and
I’d been stuck for a few days with a lost password for a WordPress site login. I knew my username but had forgotten the password so I hit the “Lost Password?” button and awaited my email. It turned up all garbled, a string of characters I didn’t understand. So initially I ignored it. And then
