Been battling with the excellent NextGen gallery plugin for Wordpress this afternoon.
I had created an Album, which is a container for mutiple Galleries. Simple enough. But then, once you had selected a Gallery, I wanted to display the Gallery description on the Gallery page above the thumbnails.
In the Manage gallery section you can type a [...]
Just got a new server in the office so updated to the latest EasyPHP - version 3. However, all was not smooth:
At first I kept getting a “permission denied” error - you’ll need to search the httpd.conf file for the <Directory /> container and get rid of Deny from all. (Or at least comment it [...]
This last year has seen a number of changes to the way our business is managed. We have tried just about every project management tool under the sun, from the popular Basecamp and open-source web-based alternatives, thought to the bloated Microsoft Project - all without much success.
And it turns out that my struggle to get [...]
There has been quite a lot said recently about Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). Should it default to “standards mode”? Or default to “IE7 mode”?
But Joel on Software has put things into perspective: Neither side is right, and neither side is wrong. Because there is really no right answer here.
It’s a long read, but [...]
If you’re anything like me, you receive a lot of email. Some days I feel like the only thing I’ve done all day is deal with email! Given the amount of other things that must be done in business, it’s easy to just put it in the “too hard basket” - but that can also [...]
Announced recently was the end of the production line for Netscape Navigator. I haven’t used it in years, but I do remember how much better Netscape 3 was than IE3.
Netscape probably started it’s decline when IE4 was released - a far superior browser at the time. Netscape never really recovered, nor reinvented themselves to create a case to change back. And it’s [...]
Many years ago the Web Standards Project (or WASP) fought the fine fight to pressure browser manufacturers into complying with some sort of standard version of HTML. Prior to that we almost had to build separate sites for Netscape and Internet Explorer - it was horrible.
We have come so far with browsers, but unfortunately most [...]
There has been a lot of talk lately (and rightly so) about the disadvantages of using captcha to stop comment spam.
I’m not a big fan. They’re often hard to read even for someone with reasonably normal vision.
“Is that a zero or the letter O?”
“Upper case C or lower case c?”
Others have suggested some sort of [...]