The Help Centers

Help, News and other information for success in life on and off the web.

The Help Centers header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

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.

[Read more →]

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

[Read more →]

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.

[Read more →]

Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

HTML Entities

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Often I have customers ask me how do I get a copyright symbol into my web page?  A quick solution is to simply copy and paste the symbol into a WYSIWYG editor or use the old windows alt-numberpad trick.  But while it may work there is a proper way to get all kinds of unusual [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Web Development

Modify and compress your digital photos.

March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

The New Image Compressor 2008 is a perfect choice for digital photography enthusiasts. It’s armed with complete image viewer, screen capture, photo retouch and of course image compression tools.

[Read more →]

Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized · Web Development

Vector Magic gone commercial

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Just an update to my post on Vector Magic was a free tool from Standford that created vector images from bitmaps.  (A bitmap image is basically made of data that says make this pixel red this one green, vector images have data that says draw a green line , make a red square).  Well to [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development · Websites

XP Toolbar Missing Properties

February 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I like to tweak my desktop from time to time (i.e. often) and had a slight problem with a toolbar on my taskbar.  I had removed the title and text and couldn’t un-dock, move or resize the  toolbar.  In this case it was the Quick Launch bar.  Right clicking, windows context key did not seem [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Tech Support · Tools and Utilities