We may not have that many news to post, but we have lots of technical tips and tricks of the Web Designer trade… so why not share them at the same time with a community that has given us so much?
From MS Access to MySQL – in 100 easy steps
I maintain a searcheable MySQL database of member’s coordinates on the Nepean Sailing Club web site that is sent to me by email as a Microsoft Excel export from an Access database. Here is how I go about it… More…
Teach you computer to think Ubuntu!
Booting XP Home Edition on my 2006, 512KB Ram Fujitsu laptop used to take 15 minutes on a good day, and 25 minutes on a not-so-good one, that is, most of the time! More…
Time to set the table
The most popular way to add borders to tables is with the primitive border="n" tag where “n” is a number expressing the thickness in pixels More…
Can’t shoot a _blank at a target?
Having an XHTML Strict DOCTYPE (as in many WordPress themes) invalidates the use of the very useful target="_blank" tag inside an anchor reference to open the page in a new window or tab… but there is a simple work around:
Replace the “target=” part in:<a href="http://admaris.com" target="_blank">
with an “onclick=” part like:<a href="http://admaris.com" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;">.
Don’t forget the return false so the onclick takes precedence over the regular href action. It is a bit uglier to be sure, but it does the job without scripting!
WordPress Theme refactoring… the quicker way
This theme was made by refactoring the new WordPress 3.0 TwentyTen ‘factory’ theme.
By refactoring, I mostly mean restyling the look and feel of the original via the CSS. More…
We have “WordPress-ed” Admaris.com…
Welcome to the WordPress refactoring of the Admaris.com web site. We liked the old site look so much that we created our own WordPress 3.0 Theme around it!
And we have tuned on the “Network” feature so we can create as many sub-websites as we want to develop our customer’s sites.