Those little tips and tricks necessary to successfully solve those niggling bits of website design and installation.
When a site is moved to a new location it is important to 301 redirect anyone who happens upon the old pages to the new pages. This helps both visitors and search engines. Redirection works best when visitors are sent from old URLs to new URLs in one-to-one fashion. For example, the like for like … Read more
So easy to fix but hard to find the solution. Hope this helps all you who are stuck with this. If your Apache server doesn’t start and you get an error message like this: Failed to start apache : * Starting web server apache2 Syntax error on line 63 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mythweb.conf: Invalid command ‘SetEnv’, perhaps … Read more
Heads up on a Chrome CSS rendering bug. The new version of Chrome ( 25.0.1364.97 and 25.0.1364.97 m) has a bug that affects left floated child elements of left floated, 100% width container elements e.g. <div style=”width:100%;float:left;”> <div style=”float:left;”> <!– Content –> </div> </div> It affects unimportant little things like horizontal navbars by causing the … Read more
Ever wanted to know how to add fonts to a webpage using Google fonts or a downloaded font file? Or ever need to convert fonts to different formats to improve cross browser support? There are simple solutions to both. Questions this guide answers How do I convert fonts into different formats? How do I add … Read more
There are 1.2 BILLION mobile web users in the world. A staggering 25 out of every 100 potential US visitors to your website will never see it with a desktop computer, at least. Statistics collected in 2010 suggest that 25% of US people DO NOT access or infrequently access the desktop web. That figure was higher in China … Read more
Back in September 2009 I wrote a guide to creating an auto rotating ad banner that uses JavaScript to switch the ads or images or any other content without pages needing to be refreshed by visitors. It has come to my attention that that solution no longer works in Google Chrome and it has problems … Read more