Web Development
Top Web Developer Mozilla Firefox Add-On Tools
Responding to repeating questions from clients and colleagues about recommended Firefox plugins for Web Development and basic SEO/SEM, following are the Firefox Addons I can’t do without : ColorZilla web developer addon It assists web developers and graphic Continue Reading →
Install, upgrade, test and debug your CMS website locally on a Windows machine
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 →
Test your website on Internet Explorer : Making sure you’re okay with IE5-IE6
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 →
Affordable Shared, VPS and DS Hosting Provider Reviews
There are endless hosting solutions out there with endless options for you to choose from. The most common question that I get on e-mail is what I recommend for hosting. Beginners usually look for shared hosting providers and the more advanced users usually ask Continue Reading →
PHP accelerators : Give your sites a performance boost
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 →
Drupal : Change DB and table collation to Unicode (UTF-8)
Drupal supports Unicode (UTF-8) out of the box and so Unicode should be used for all your Drupal installations. Problem is, some things you do with your Drupal installation might result in a database or a table that have non-unicode collation. Here are Continue Reading →
The external links dilemma : How to mark, preview, open-new and AJAX your outgoing links
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 →
Fixing PNG transparency display problem with IE6
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 →
Shell with PHP
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 →
