I spoke to a friend recently who had a nightmare story in osCommerce, where when a new customer signs up, another customers details appeared in their address book. What had happened was the store was copied from another live store, and had the database erased, however entries in the address book table were left. As [...]
There are many caveats and pitfalls with websites that people need to be aware of. Having been in IT for over eight years, here are a five main things to watch out for that I have found. Used Terms Domain: is the name for the site you type into the address bar, such as http://thewebsiteguy.com.au. [...]
I updated the FlowerChix website again. I moved the FlowerChix logo up a little, changed the header border color, added the scrolly image to the right and updated the gallery to move portrait photos to the centre and added a thick border. All over the FlowerChix website looks much better now!
It’s been a while since I posted a browser compliance post so time for another, and this time it will be a little more thorough. IE 8 beta In my Microsoft download notifications E-mails, I noticed a link to the new IE 8 beta. Well, I like looking at beta products, so I downloaded and [...]
This is one of the best I have seen! Small pic again, click to enlarge. EDIT: For non-IT people, it is an error and the website is displaying the username and password to the database.
It’s easy in Windows Server 2008 (My new favourite thing). Here’s an excellent article: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/09/19/How-to-install-PHP-on-IIS7-_2800_RC1_2900_.aspx It’s sooo good for dev now, I just setup the headers in it and create host file entries. I’m very happy.
I quickly banged together a joomla website today for my alternative rock band, Duty of Man. Have a look! DutyOfMan.Net I will make it a bit prettier in the future. As usual, XHTML, CSS2. It doesn’t work in IE 6 yet (the silly thing doesn’t support PNG transparancy) so I’ll convert it to GIF soon. [...]
I just finished his website tonight: http://timhazzard.com for this solo guitar work. The most important feature I reckon is the streamed media on it using an open source flash media player, Music Player and the open source XML playlist format xspf