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Popularity: 3%
Filed under: Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Funny as hell.
I must admit, that part about Internet Explorer is so true, but what are you going to do? It’s all part of the job description.
Popularity: 5%
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2006
You never really know when you’ll need an icon do you? Here is a set of free icons for use. They are licensed under Creative Commons license so you can use them for whatever.
Popularity: 3%
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Ok, It’s been a long time in the making, I’ll be the first to admit. This is a blog by a colleague of mine who shall remain nameless. There are some interesting tips on saving money and some cute lil’ rants.
Check it out:
Popularity: 4%
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Some more very basic information on image optimization. If you’ve had some experience with Photoshop or even just some basic image editor you can skip this. This is for the people who upload a 2.5 MB image and use HTML tags to “reduce the size”.
Topics Covered:
- Reduce the Image Quality
- Crop Images
- Resize Images
- Image Optimizing Tools
- Re-Using Images
- Choose the Right Image Format
Popularity: 4%
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Not much more to say than, here’s the link. Dan at WebDeveloperNow, has a nice lil’ basic CSS run down for beginners. Skip this if you’ve had to hack together some stuff before.
Popularity: 4%
Published: Friday, November 17th, 2006
Now I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a huge Flash advocate. I don't like it for a lot of reasons:
- It's heavy
- It's not standard
- A lot of older browsers don't support it.
But guys, I think I fell in love:
SWFUpload is one of the nicer Flash applications out there and it's good because it has a few features that ordinary HTML uploads can't give you. A progress bar. That is one of the main features lacking with HTML uploads. You can also upload multiple files simultaneosly. And I must say, it's pretty.
So much for the user end. You'd think this thing takes a lot of back-end code. Nope.
HTML:
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<script type="text/javascript">
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mmSWFUpload.init({
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upload_backend : "../../upload.php",
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target : "SWFUpload",
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});
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</script>
Yep, that's it. Have fun
Popularity: 6%
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2006
I've stumbled upon a disturbing poll at About.com.
How much is too much to pay for Web hosting?
The results of this poll were somewhat alarming to me. 33% of voters said that a business should pick a free host. OK, have these people ever seen what a free host offers?
I'm not usually an advocate of "you get what you pay for" but there is some truth to it. Honestly, I have had very little experience with free hosts. First of all, do they even offer MySQL and PHP? Just asking.
I have had experience with "cheap" hosts though. If it's not one thing it's the other. Either their PHP service goes down frequently or the entire host goes down. My last host was very surprising. I decided to pick them because they advertised in a very popular magazine that I subscribe to. Here's the problem: They do offer MySQL and PHP, but they username's and database names that they give are auto-generated for you. So this makes maintenance extremely difficult. Even logging into the server via FTP is difficult just because the username is so critique.