Web Design

Faster, better cross browser testing with browsershots.org

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT

For most web developers it is necessary to test website designs in a number of different browsers and possibly on a PC and a Mac. I just found a new website that made it a lot easier to test in multiple configurations.

A good XSLT Library of common functions and templates.

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT

The XSLT Standart Library can be found at http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/. I recently used version 1.2.1 for an airport flight information data system to format dates and times flights were arriving. The code was simple to use and well documented.

The Best Free FireFox Add-ons

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT

FireFox allows the community to develop Add-ons for the FireFox web browser. These Add-ons are distributed freely from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/. I have found some of these Add-ons to be very useful.

How do you figure out what w3wp.exe is running each application pool?

Thu, 03 May 2007 06:00:00 GMT

Easy use the iisapp.vbs to see the application pools and what w3wp.exe pid they are using.

DNN Email field errors when registering a new user.

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:00:00 GMT

The DNN email field can not contain emails like my-home@myip because it doesn't like the - before the @. It has no issue with a - after the @.

Favorite Icons - favicon.ico

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:00:00 GMT

What is the default location for favorite icons, how can a page have a custom favorite icon.

JavaScript form submission

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT

Use JavaScript to submit and form and change the action.

DotNetNuke Site CSS Editor - use the dev tool bar to find class and id information

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT

Even the DotNetNuke default templates can be customized by using the css editor. Since you can override the default css classes. Here are a few simple classes that you can use to make your site look unique almost right out of the box.

MS Access AutoNumber Field.

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT

AutoNumbers are very useful field. It can be even more powerful if you change the default settings. Included are a list of the changes that can be made to the field to make it more powerful.

Visual Studio 2005 Access Database Connection "Unspecified Error" - Simple Resolution

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:00:00 GMT

When attempting to add an access database connection, in Server Explorer -> Data Connections, an "Unspecified Error" continued to occur and would not allow connection.