Web Development

Checking Website Browser and Platform Compatibility

Written on July 24, 2008 by

Checking website browser and platform compatibility is key, if you want your site to appeal to the target audiences using them. Since I got a few emails about the topic, both from people asking me what I use and those suggesting their services, following is a Continue Reading →

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Install, upgrade, test and debug your CMS website locally on a Windows machine

Written on July 18, 2008 by

The other week I was horrified finding out how some of my friends do their CMS testing and debugging (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, whatever) – they do it online. To their defense I would say that they backup everything and put the site in maintenance mode, but Continue Reading →

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The open-source Browser Shots : Test your website on all platforms and browsers

Written on April 4, 2008 by

If there's something I really hate about doing webdesign is having to making sure the design is running the same on all browsers running on all platforms. There are endless little issues that could drive the most patient of people absolutely insane, and the problem Continue Reading →

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Test your website on Internet Explorer : Making sure you’re okay with IE5-IE6

Written on November 22, 2007 by

I can't imagine why, but over half of the world's web surfing population is still using old versions of Internet Explorer (IE) - most running the Windows XP  bundled Internet Explorer 5 (IE5), Internet Explorer 5.5 (IE5.5), Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and the Continue Reading →

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PHP accelerators : Give your sites a performance boost

Written on June 30, 2007 by

Site slow? account CPU overloaded? Make sure you're running PHP accelerators on your server. Recently, a colleague has been having trouble with his site, as his medium-size Drupal website has been running extremely slow and overloading the server hosting account. Continue Reading →

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The external links dilemma : How to mark, preview, open-new and AJAX your outgoing links

Written on April 12, 2007 by

External links are always a dilemma as a user that follows an external link using a simple click will leave your site. Can the visitors know what is an internal link and an external link? Do your visitors know that they're leaving the site and when they do Continue Reading →

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Fixing PNG transparency display problem with IE6

Written on February 22, 2007 by

One of the most annoying bugs in IE6 that I keep running into is lack of support for a PNG file that isn't PNG8. In order to for a PNG24 to display transparency right in IE6 it has to be converted to a PNG8, and so, attached here is a small DOS command line tool Continue Reading →

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Shell with PHP

Written on September 14, 2006 by

Need shell access on your hosting but all you have is FTP? don't worry about it. PHPsh will do the job for you perfectly. PHPsh is simple webbased shell access to your server, available at http://www.psychogenic.com/en/products/PHPsh.php . I've always felt a bit Continue Reading →

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