Web Development
« Previous EntriesDreamweaver CS4
Saturday, June 7th, 2008For those Dreamweaver lovers out there, you will be pleased to know that Adobe have released a beta version of Dreamweaver CS4.
Packed with new features, a lot centred around making your interface being easier to drive and finding the things you normally use quicker.
There will be better Photoshop integration, CSS improvements, code hints for Javascript […]
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008A great talk on simplicity in design. Very worthwhile.
MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51 vs MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1
Friday, April 18th, 2008I could not for the life of me get the new MySQL Connector/ODBC Driver, version 5.1 to work on IIS5.1 with MySQL 5.0.51. Continual errors along the lines of:
ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Can’t connect….
My quick solution was to simply install trusty old version 3.51, and everything worked fine. No more errors and all connections […]
IEDevToolbar - Internet Explorer Development Toolbar
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Ok, they didn’t come up with the idea, but who cares? FireFox developers have been seeing this feature for a while now and provides some great insight into the construction of web pages.
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (IEDevToolbar) is a great addition to Internet Explorer (compatible with versions 6 & 7). The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar […]
IIS Problem: Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740
Monday, March 17th, 2008For .Net developers who run into the problem of IIS randomly ceasing to function due to the descriptive (not) error message….
Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740
….good news it, is actually a very easy fix. In this instance, that little program you may of heard of called Skype was the culprit - he started using my Port 80 without […]
MD Web Hosting
Sunday, March 16th, 2008A couple of quotes I have seen so many times it’s not funny anymore! I’m sure MD webhosting are aware of the widespread hosting community unhappiness.
“I have submitted tickets, seperate emails and all manner of tried communications but to no avail.”
“not happy”
If this sounds like you, then by all means, seek another hosting provider. I […]
New iMac
Sunday, March 9th, 2008This is my new machine….I like it.
http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html
.ASIA Domain Names!
Friday, February 15th, 2008Check it out!
eBay Interface ‘Buggy’
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Is it just me or is the new eBay interface for sellers buggy?
Tried using IE, Firefox and Safari and all produce plenty of errors.
FreeTextBox Alternative: FCKeditor!
Saturday, February 9th, 2008For those struggling with the bug-ridden FreeTextBox, check out FCKeditor.
It’s much nicer
Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox Useless For ASP.Net
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008For ASP.Net developers using Dreamweaver and wondering if the new Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox is worth the $299 USD price tag, this may be of interest - this set of server behaviours and commands does not provide anything for ASP.Net.
On the other hand, if you are a developer using PHP, ColdFusion or ASP (VBScript), then […]
Dreamweaver Bug Fix: dwscripts is not defined
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008This sounds bad, but really it isn’t. There is quite a simple fix available straight from the source, Adobe.
You may also receive an error describing something along the lines of “the following translators were not loaded due to errors”.
This link will help you out - gives a lot of detail.
Happy new year!
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Happy new year to everybody!!!
Windows Vista Home Premium
Thursday, December 13th, 2007For those considering upgrading to Vista, here is my experience with it so far.
I recently purchased a new laptop. I had it for 1 day! Issues were:
Apparently not having permissions (despite being the only user and the administrator) to turn of windows services or disable services at startup (using msconfig) - it all seems to […]
Dreamweaver Help Crashes
Friday, November 16th, 2007A common problem with Dreamweaver 8 is Dreamweaver crashes when accessing the help system when you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 installed.
Adobe have a TechNote on how to resolve the issue. Dreamweaver TechNote
Cheers
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Shortcuts
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Yes, I am a big fan of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. One reason why is the ability to export all your shortcuts to a neatly formatted (yep, uses tables!) HTML document for printing and displaying a handy place or simply filing on your computer somewhere for quick reference. You can even format it to look pretty […]
osCommerce PayMate Module Link
Sunday, August 19th, 2007For those implementing the osCommerce PayMate payment module, the link for Australian orders is incorrect!!
You need to modify the paymate.php file which is found in catalog/includes/modules/payment/
On line (approx) 45, you will see this code:
$this->form_action_url = ‘https://www.paymate.com.au/PayMate/GenExpressPayment?mid=yourpaymateusernamehere’;
This is incorrect for Australian orders. It should read:
$this->form_action_url = ‘https://www.paymate.com.au/PayMate/ExpressPayment?mid=yourpaymateusernamehere’;
Hope this is useful for you!
Agur
WordPress AdRotator
Saturday, August 18th, 2007The AdRotator plugin for WordPress is so simple, yet quite effective. Did I mention free? That got your attention!
You can get it on the Taragana blog.
myLittleAdmin
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Like me, for those struggling to come to grips with the IP restrictions on remote connections to SQL Server 2005, you should encourage your web host to install myLittleAdmin.
This little gem gets around a lot of the problems of the brilliant but ancient ASP.NET (SQL) Enterprise Manager which is commonly used to access SQL Server […]
Dreamweaver Tip #1
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Set up your web site as a ’site’ in Dreamweaver.
To do this, you need to follow a few simple steps.
Open Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Click the ‘Site’ menu item
Click ‘New Site’
The Basic tab is sufficient for most web sites, except if you are developing in ASP, PHP, etc. Select the ‘Basic’ tab
Type your site name (this can […]