I have recently moved a site over from an ASP content management system to Joomla. One of the tricky things was creating the redirects for the pages on the old site to the new. Normally this is easy enough when you are redirecting a static page to another static page. Unfortuntely the mod_rewrite in Apache […]
Great Howto for 301 Redirects for Dynamic URL\’s Read More »
Kick it to the Kerb? That would be nice, as most web designers have come unstuck when a nice design fails spectacularly in IE6. But unfortunately, there are still lots of people (over 30% in most cases) that are still using it, that is too large a number to upset with messages about compatibility and
IE6, What Do We Do About It? Read More »
Had this problem for a while, but since I use Firefox mostly, it hasn\’t been too bad. Anyway, I decided to find a dsolution and Google Help came to the rescue The link is here http://bit.ly/d4mC2 Here is the solution Go to Tools, Internet Options and select the Advanced tab. Under the Browsing section remove
Does IE8 Make Your Buttons and Form Fields Small? Fixed Read More »
HTML 4 has been around for many years, and it looks like the newest incarnation HTML5 is going to make some serious changes to the way the web works. Here is a video for those who are interested (it is over an hour long, and targetted at a technical audience, but very informative) Here are
HTML 5 – The future looks bright Read More »
TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL\’s, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message. However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL\’s, primarily the ability to hide any references to bad sites
What\’s Hiding Behind That Shortened URL Read More »
I cam across WP Greet Box, looking for some kind of Twitter integration (of which it isn\’t really) Anyway, looked like a great way to interact with visitors and from a social point of view a great way to encourage others to network via RSS, Twitter, Facebook etc. By default the following are covered Delicious
WP Greet Box – some pretty cool use of Ajax :) Read More »
Video is getting more and more prevalent on the web, Youtube is the largest video platform and amazingly provides the second most searches of all search engines, behind Google. This is a great opportunity to base marketing and SEO for your site / products / services Here is a great video with the product manager
SEO and Marketing using videos Read More »
With April 1 hard coded into the Conficker virus, expect some headaches shortly. We will either hear the gnashing of teeth and wails of \”Not Me!\” or a whimper as the virus is reactivated. Here in NZ, there were some high profile casualties, Ministry of Health, Polytechnics, Newspapers sites Whether lessons have been learnt, we
Not April Fools, But Conficker Day? Read More »
Owen Thor Walker, a 19 year old, who was wanted by the FBI for his part in leading the group the A-Team has been employed by Telstraclear for nearly a year to provide information for seminars. Telstraclear made an interesting comment when they said: He said it was not the equivalent of hiring a bank
Hacker \”Akill\” contracted to Telstraclear Read More »
Here is a video from WebProNews about the new Google Friend Connect API More WebProNews Videos With this, it allows you to integrate many social style interactions (Comments, votes etc) into your site. Google have created some Open Source plugins for WordPress, Drupal and PHPBB. I will look at adding the WordPress plugin here and
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