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Entries Tagged as 'Web Development'

Great Flashing Site

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

No it’s not a pervert or a weatherproofing site but rather it allows you to build flash widgets in your browser. With these widgets you can put them on ANY web page. It takes minutes to do and small learning curve if you’re able to use a simple graphics program. While [...]

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Tags: Web Development · Websites

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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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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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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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

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 [...]

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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.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized · Web Development