Don’t Forget to Use CSS Background-color
I recently altered my Firefox preferences to display a custom peach color background. Initially the purpose was to ensure that my designs were displaying their CSS background colors properly. Since...
View ArticleCron Jobs & Backing Up Database Data
I have been backing up my mySQL databases manually through phpMyAdmin, and although it is an simple, straightforward way to backup, I really wanted to find a more reliable, automated backup system for...
View ArticleAn Easy Way to Remember CSS Comments
The syntax for a css comment is somewhat difficult to remember. I know I always had trouble until I thought of an easy way to remember. Think of a game of tennis /* tennis anyone */ The rackets are on...
View ArticleTechCheatSheets.com
I love cheat sheets! Found a great resource at Tech Cheat Sheets. Besides various cheatsheets for php, css, and html, you can also find WordPress Themes and Microformats cheatsheets. I just used their...
View ArticleCSS Child & Adjacent Sibling Selectors
[This is an advanced CSS tutorial. To learn the basics of XHTML and CSS, please view my Web Design Made Simple tutorials.] It started out with an email discussion with friends, and worked its way into...
View ArticleTransform code to characters for html display
One of my CSS cohorts in crime wrote a quick and easy app to transform code to characters for html display So instead of hand coding all the < and > special characters, type the code into...
View ArticleWhat Good is an AOL Email Account?
Since I heard the news that AOL opened up their “gated garden” for all to use, I didn’t think I cared. But after reading a post by Chris on the Wise Women mailing list, I realized that opening an AOL...
View ArticleGet Naked – 2007
Well it’s that time of year again, when all daring designers decide to get naked and show off their true form. Tomorrow marks the Second Annual CSS Naked Day. Remove your CSS style sheets, IF YOU DARE!...
View ArticleThe New Icon Buffet
A few of weeks ago, I noticed that Icon Buffet relaunched their icon sharing community. See: Firewheel Design – how to build a community with icons I have been a member of Icon Buffet for a little over...
View ArticleConfiguring a Linksys Router
(updated 2008-11-9) My friend Jenn is having a tough time properly configuring her Linksys wireless router, so I told her I would write a tutorial. (waving to Jenn!) Hopefully this will help her, and...
View ArticlePanic Releases Coda for Mac
Yesterday, Panic announced the release of Coda 1.0, an all in one web developer’s tool for Mac OS X. I love Panic’s FTP app Transmit, so I am looking forward to checking it out further. Other Web...
View ArticleFireworks Batch Processing Revisited
I received an email today from a visitor regarding one of my Fireworks MX tutorials. He was having trouble with the Batch Processing tutorial and wondered if it was possible to save a command that...
View ArticleSimple Machines – Spam Free Discussion Forum
For the last few years I have been administrating a small discussion forum on one of my other web sites. I use Simple Machines forum software. Simple Machines has served me well. It was easy to set up,...
View ArticleDreamhost Security Leak
It appears that 3500 FTP accounts hosted at Dreamhost were hacked. Mezzoblue was one of the hacked sites, along with Caydel’s SEO Blog. The hackers added invisible links to files located on the server....
View ArticleSSH Connection Using Mac Terminal
I found a very helpful tutorial to set up a SSH connection to your web host using Mac Terminal. http://www.cmu.edu/computing/documentation/terminal/terminal.html Simple instructions to connect and save...
View ArticleTransmit 3.6 Adds Amazon S3 Support
I am a huge fan of Transmit, the Mac FTP (SFTP) app from Panic. So you can imagine my glee when I heard that they added support for Amazon S3 to the newest version (3.6) I have been using JungleDisk,...
View ArticleBack Up MySQL Database
For those that utilize a MySQL database, whether for a blog, discussion forum, photo page, etc. it is so important to make regular backups of the database(s). You never know when or if the database...
View ArticleGetting Social
I have had accounts at all the cool social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, MySpace and Zooomr to name a few. I have never really had the time or desire to participate with any of...
View ArticleDNS Poisoning & How To Protect Yourself
UPDATE: I will be updating this article very shortly. I have new info on how to change the DNS settings for dialup as well as wired users. I will be adding a few screen shots and step by step...
View ArticleSitepoint Giving Away Free Book
It’s a twitaway: http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/ Sitepoint is giving away a free full pdf copy of their book “The Art & Science Of CSS” On the twitaway page, it states that you can either follow...
View ArticleRelearning CSS & Web Design
One of my older web sites is in desperate need of a new web design; the problem is I am so rusty and out of practice. sigh, one of the perils of getting older! You don’t use it, you will lose it! I...
View ArticleMacRabbit Espresso Public Beta
Wheee! yay, finally! MacRabbit is now offering a public beta for their new code editor named “Espresso” Oh I wish I could play. My Macbook Pro is staying at Applecare Hospital, and I don’t know if I...
View ArticleCreate Simple HTML Photo Page in iPhoto
I maintain a basic web site for a local non-profit, and every year, I must update their photo page of Officers. It’s always been time consuming to try to reassemble the table html codes and move all...
View ArticleSitePoint – Buy 1 Get 5
Buy FIVE pdf books for the price of one $29.95 on SitePoint. 3 days only, all proceeds are going to the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal. More details here:...
View ArticleGoogle Books
I know I knew about this before, but never really looked into it….but Google has a very large collection of books to browse. http://books.google.com/books Add the books to “Your Library” so you can...
View ArticleGo Daddy Domain Coupon Discounts
One of my domains is up for renewal next month, and when I got an email from godaddy.com with a discount code for 25% off, I figured I would renew now. I added renewals for four domain names to my...
View ArticleCSSEdit and Espresso Editors by MacRabbit
I have used quite a few Mac code editors but to be honest, I had never been 100% satisfied with any code editor on the Mac (sigh) as I was with Dreamweaver, Homesite, and/or HTML-Kit on Windows. It’s...
View ArticleReDesigning a Web Site with Expression Engine
I have been a faithful Expression Engine user since 2004. I was lucky enough to be one of the thousand or so people who received free copy way back when. Movable Type had just released version 3, and...
View ArticleHow to Use Sugars in Espresso Code Editor
I have been working with Espresso code editor from MacRabbit, and so far it’s been a good experience, but I wanted to learn more about Espresso Sugars….Sugars are little plug-ins for Espresso. Don’t...
View ArticleTesting Web Design in Different Browsers
Every web designer knows how important it is to test test test their new web design in multiple browsers. Windows doesn’t make it easy to test in multiple versions of Internet Explorer, although it is...
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