Archive for May, 2009
IE List Item Margin Hack
As any front-end web developer knows, getting IE to play nice with certain layouts can require a bit of hacking and bug fixing. In this article I explain a list item margin bug that causes list elements to be spaced much too far apart in Internet Explorer 6 and how to fix it.
Difference between www and public_html
If you manage your own website on shared hosting, you may have seen two folders with the exact same contents: /www/ and /public_html/. So what’s the difference between the two? Read on to find out.
Problem sending email
Here’s a quick juicy piece of knowledge for you. If your ISP changes for whatever reason (i.e. you move) and suddenly your email stops working, it’s possible your ISP blocks port 25, the standard email SMTP port on most servers. All you have to do to fix it is change your SMTP port to 587, which is another SMTP port activated on many email servers for situations like this. If you’re not sure how to do that, and you run Microsoft Outlook, here’s a quick step-by-step.
Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) Free Download
Microsoft is offering a free download of Windows 7 RC. This is a time-limited version that will become unusable in 2010 on March 1st, but until then, you can find out what the newest version of Windows is going to be like. Keep in mind, this is a release candidate, meaning its supposed to be …
BuddyPress Brings Social Networks to WordPress
Built on the back of WordPress MU, BuddyPress, a collection of plugins and themes that give Wordpress MU social networking functionality, just launched yesterday and version 1.0 of the latest addition to the WordPress family is certainly impressive. Here’s a brief review and some screenshots of BuddyPress 1.0.
