Archive for January, 2004

Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

A Comprehensive guide to .htaccess is a nice intro to Apache .htaccess files. Most web hosting companies give you access to these files that allow you to harness the power of the popular Apache web server.

Topics include:

  • Error Documents
  • Password protection
  • Enabling SSI via htaccess
  • Deny users by IP
  • Change your default directory page
  • Redirects
  • Prevent viewing of htaccess
  • Adding MIME types
  • Preventing hot linking of your images
  • Preventing directory listing

CSS Selector Tutorial

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Another gem from masdesign.com is Selectutorial. Find out more about selectors including the structure of rules, the document tree, types of selectors and their uses.

There is also a step-by-step tutorial showing how selectors are used in the process of building a 3-column layout.

Definition Lists – Misused or Misunderstood?

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Max Design has another good article that asks if Definition lists are misused or misunderstood? Hopefully this article will guide you and help you to decide when it is appropriate to use them.

The article also offers some good tips on styling definition lists.

Getting Your Resume Read

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Joel on Software writes some great tips on Getting Your Resume Read. Some great tips – especially the one about how to make sure the resume you attatch to an email, doesn’t get filtered as spam and stripped from the email.

Sensually Styled Definition Lists

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Sensually Styled Definition Lists shows you how to create very stunning definition lists using nothing but CSS.

VisiBone Font Survey Results

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

VisiBone Font Survey Results lists the browsershare of over 200 fonts installed on client computers.

I wish there was a link to a page that described the method in which this list was obtained, but if I can remember correctly, the author invited web users to visit a page on his site that enumerated the fonts installed on that system.

MySQL Administrator

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

MySQL Administrator is a new application from the MySQL group that provides a powerful visual administration console so you can easily administer your MySQL environment and gain significantly better visibility as to how your databases are operating.

The application has not yet been released, but you can sign up for notification. The screenshots that are available on the site certainly look impressive!

Mozilla 1.6 ActiveX Control Released

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Mozilla 1.6 ActiveX Control has been released. This control allows developers to embed Gecko engine into their applications.

VB and C++ programmers have been able to do for a while now with IE. The control supports most of the API of the IE control for easy porting of your existing applications.

Mozedit

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Mozedit is another sub-project of mozdev.org, that provides an advanced text editor extension for Mozilla Firebird and the Mozilla suite. It was created with web developer in mind.

Easy Screen Captures in OSX

Monday, January 26th, 2004

SnapNDrag for Mac OS X makes screen capturing easy! And best of all, this utility is free!

Just click a button to capture and then drag the result off to another application or to the Finder.

For example, to e-mail your screenshot, simply drag it off SnapNDrag and drop it on your e-mail application. No file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to delete.