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Entries from March 2008

Double Browser from Window

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I recently upgraded to IE8 (Beta) and also Firefox 3.0(Beta) and while there are some GREAT new features in them.  I had a strange problem.  When I would click something from from another application my default browser (Firefox 3.0) would open the site but I would get an error message saying that the site couldn’t [...]

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Tags: Tech Support

Reduce Contact Form Spam

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Often a web site has a contact us form.  Simple enter your name, email address and comment.  After a few months on the Internet the are getting dozens of spams to their email address.  While there are a bunch of spam reducing methods if you have the ability to create email forwards you can use [...]

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Tags: Web Development

Firefox 3.0 Beta 4

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Well Firefox 3.0 Betas have been  coming out rather regularly and this is NO exception.  The bad?  Extensions… the Good? Fast , Less Memory, Standards Compliant.  Keep tuned for updates.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities

Rewards for Survey’s

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve all gotten the SPAM saying earn thousands by simply  filling out surveys.  Well I’ve not come across any that are an entire free lunch but I have one that does pay out legitimately for a little bit of work. 

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Tags: Websites

IE 8 Doesn’t look so good…

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Ok your website doesn’t look so good in IE8 because you’ve coded for IE7.  Well thats because with it’s new standards compliance your ‘fixes’ have are incorrect in IE8.  There is a workaround that doesn’t involve rewriting your web pages and that is to change the compatibility mode.

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Tags: Web Development

IE 8 Beta 1 Released

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Microsoft just released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 yesterday.  Touting more support for Internet standards and improving security IE 8 will try to live up to the hope that we had for IE7

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Tags: Web Development

Expression Web 2 Beta Released

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Microsoft recently released a public beta of their web editing software Expression Web.  It’s got a bunch of new features that are  for some advanced editing.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development