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Knowledgebase - Web Development
Show HTTP Headers With Sam Spade (16 Feb 2007)
Further to my previous post, sometimes it's helpful to be able to see the full set of HTTP headers that are being sent from a web page. This enable you to check on caching, cookies, redirects, etc. The tool I...
View Cookies in Firefox (13 Feb 2007)
I'm experimenting with cookies at the moment, as I will be using them for sales tracking in a forthcoming development. Here is a handy Firefox Extension. Install this in Firefox and then you get an extra tab on Tools ->...
The Strange Case of the Website with the Missing Piece (11 Jul 2006)
I recently completed a website for a client and put it on my test site from them to review. They got back to say that it looked great on one machine, but part of the footer was displaced when viewed...
Our Web Development Process Part 2 (30 Jun 2006)
Rather belatedly here is part 2 of our web development process, following on from this post. In this step we use ImageReady to create HTML and image files that will form the basis for subsequent work in Dreamweaver. We use...
Illustrator Snap to Guides (14 Jun 2006)
In this post we talked about the use of Illustrator in the first phase of our web development cycle. That often requires a lot of close work, getting objects precisely aligned where they need to be. One example is to...
Distributing Email Newsletters (01 Jun 2006)
Through our relationship with Door 22 we've been involved with a number of e-newsletters. Thus far all the clients had an existing mechanism for sending these, either through a CRM package or else a mass-mailing feature on their web site....
Customising Actinic (30 May 2006)
As mentioned previously I'm currently engaged in developing an Actinic site for a customer. Finding the information required to customise the site to get a consistent navigation structure has proved more difficult than I feel it should be, so here...
Keeping Your Email Address Spam-Free Part 2 (26 May 2006)
Yesterday's blog talked about the steps that you can take to minimise the risk of your personal email address falling into the hands of the spammers. However, if your small business has a web site then there are further considerations....
Keeping Your Email Address Spam-Free (25 May 2006)
Once your email address get known to the spammers then essentially you are doomed to receive spam for the rest of eternity. You can follow the rules such as never replying and hope that it will eventually go away. Sadly...
Our Web Development Process Part 1 (18 May 2006)
Most of the web development projects that we are involved in are done in conjunction with a graphics design agency. We have refined a process that allows us to take their designs in Adobe Illustrator format and turn them into...
Complete Web Site in Actinic (15 May 2006)
I've just started working to develop an Actinic ecommerce shop for one of my customers. As their web site was in need of a major overhaul we decided to make the e-shop be the complete replacement for their site, rather...
MovableType Blogging Software (07 May 2006)
Our first blogging entry concerns the blog itself. We started out with the intention of creating our own code to publish our experiences, but then quickly decided it would make more sense to use a package. The package selected is...
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