A reminder list of ways to check if your site is unintentionally hosting spammers content or links:
How many pages or posts do you have?
One site I saw was unintentionally hosting thousands of pages that were not showing in their main menu. Check in wordpress, check your database with phpmyadmin, check your stats for entry [...]
Category Archives: Web design
Check if you’ve been hacked
June 22, 2008 – 2:17 pm
Making a set of nested div’s clickable like a link or href element
June 3, 2008 – 1:09 pm
The need: make a set of nested div’s clickable, like one big image
The Auto CSS Layout generator has preview pages. In these we wanted the real html templates and the real tableless CSS required for each particular layout to be used, rather than screen dumps. this seemed like a more ethical approach and [...]
Why you should never use a browser hack…..
March 18, 2008 – 7:33 am
It is very tempting for a web designer to just use a little browser hack here and there so that the website can use some funky functionality that is perfectly standard but one of the popular browsers has a bug and cannot cope with it.
Do not do it!
Joel has a entertaining (to me anyway) [...]
Generating your own favicon
February 29, 2008 – 7:44 pm
A favicon is an accessory, a bit of “bling” for your website. It is not essential but can help to set a brand or image for your website. It may help the user identify which browser tab is open to your web.
Generate the icon
Many image programs will offer an option to export an [...]
Some help and a correction for Vista installation of Apache, PHP, Mysql, PhpAdmin
November 21, 2007 – 10:33 am
The next Vista step was to get my development web server running again. So far so good … with thanks to Molecular Sieve’s article on PHP plus the well spotted correction from David Powers who pointed out that the slashes needed to be forward slashes when. Molecular Sieve’s article on apache was [...]