Ever type a word you know to be correct yet Firefox says is misspelled? Say something like snigglefritz... Thinking there could be numerous spellings for snigglefritz, I know that mine is the correct one. What I really hate is Firefox telling me it's wrong every time I type it. One way to get around that is to add your spelling to Firefox's Custom Dictionary. To do that right-click on the misspelled word and select "Add to Custom Dictionary" from the context menu. But, what if you … [Read more...]
Set-up an FTP Server on Windows 2003 Server
Setting up an FTP server on Windows 2003 Server is a pretty simple process. Why would you need an FTP server? Well, if you are hosting websites you might want to allow designers and customers access to their webfolders (not me... no one accesses my server but me but you can.. :-) ) and an FTP server is a great way to allow them access. OR some Commercial Copiers have a scan to FTP or SMB service so, you could install an FTP server to allow a central place to save scanned documents. Needless … [Read more...]
IIS 6: Adding Footers to Web Pages
Did you know you can configure the Microsoft IIS 6 web server to automatically insert an HTML-formatted file to the bottom of every web page sent out by your Web Server? Well, you can. For example, you host several sites and want to add a link back to your company for advertisement. You could create a simple HTML file that contained a text message and an image that you hyperlink back to your web site. Then enable the footer function in IIS 6. Once you enable this feature, IIS … [Read more...]
Export Dreamweaver CS4 Site Info
Ninety-nine percent of the time I work on websites for myself and others from the comfort of my home office. I can kick back relax and generally get a lot of work done. Sometimes, however, I need a "Change of local"... The office gets a little confining. Instead of copying the site (or sites) I'm working on from desktop to thumb-drive to laptop, I have devised another method. This may not be the "best" method but, it works quite well for me. (Thank you very much :-) ) First, I make … [Read more...]
CSS – Long URL
This is an older post that did not make it through to the new site when I converted to WordPress. Hopefully this will still be relevant to someone out there. CSS and the Long URL: I was working on a webmail client a while back and had been having a few design problems. Sometimes when you subscribe to a blog, forum or usergroup the e-mails from those respective subscriptions will include an "unsubscribe url". This Blog does. Now this URL can be really long and, in a normal email client … [Read more...]
WordPress and Smileys
I don't know about you but, sometimes on the web (twitter especially) the humor or sarcasm meant in a statement can be lost. So, I always try to add a little smiley so people know I'm not such a big jerk. On a similar front, Wordpress will convert text smileys into their graphic equivalent . The problem is, I can't ever remember what the "Proper" text for the smiley is supposed to be. I did a little searching (via Bing, BTW) and came across this list of smileys that will work with … [Read more...]
The First Microsoft Bing Ad
I ran across this a little while ago. Microsoft has launched it's first Bing commercial and, it's not terrible. Nothing Earth Shattering but it's a pretty good commercial. I've used "Bing" a few times and I'll say one thing, it is quite fast returning results. I've not put it head to head with Google yet to see what it does or doesn't get but it is fast and I like the way it sorts the results. I think I will try a few head to head searches this weekend to see how they compare. And, I may even … [Read more...]