As a Linux user browsing the web you probably have respect and understanding for the importance of both cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. This is a look at native and Wine Linux support for the major browsers out there and how to test with them.
If you’re in the unfortunate scenario where you have to support IE6 then here’s a quick guide to installing Internet Explorer 6 on wine for Linux using winetricks (and not IEs4Linux).
How to use, view and edit websites and MySQL from a Windows NTFS installation of XAMPP in Ubuntu Linux.
Free UK Postcode Database that includes town, county, longitude, latitude, x and y. Based on the ezpy UK postcode data file it includes 2822 postcodes. It’s completely free and available in .csv, .sql and .ods file formats.
A MODx plugin to automatically resize images placed inside documents (pages). It searches content for image elements that have the width or height specified, compares it to the current image size and then scales accordingly.
It saves images to the MODx Cache and improves the quality of images and the speed of the page(s).
How to redirect entire domains and single pages to new or mirrored web sites with new domain names. Easy domain name redirections without the Apache rewrite module.
If you’re using an older version of MySQL then the MODx Wayfinder snippet might fail to order your navigation correctly (regardless of your menu indexes). Here’s one solution.
If you can’t log into Magento, when developing or testing locally, you will need to perform a few minor changes to have access to the Magento admin backend.
How to easily check or uncheck all textboxes with JQuery
How to set the default OPTION in a SELECT list with the jQuery framework.
SEO Friendly Web Design, some important tips on designing and developing a website to be Search Engine Friendly (SEF).
A quick and easy snippet to include a MODx page’s content in another page.
I was needed in duplicating an entire table that retained the same attributes and properties with exactly the same rows and columns of data via a MySQL query.
Here’s a quick and simple function I thought I’d share. It recursively scans and maps from a set directory to an array in PHP.
I came to a bit of a road block when trying to determine whether a user is logged in or not with WebLoginPE on MODx. This is a quick and dirty snippet for determining a users login state.
I stumbled across this accidentally but I noticed the number of inlinks reported by Yahoo! Site Explorer decreased when using the UK and Ireland version.
A small niggle I found with MODx was the document tree view that’s displayed in the left hand side of the manager. It displays the “resources” title (aka the page title) which is bit confusing like shown below. After a quick browse through the source I changed it to display the resources alias.
The era of meta spamming has been over for a long time now thanks to the introduction of Google. The emphasis for a while now has been on votes (or inlinks) but “What’s next?”. That’s a pretty ignorant question I know as there are always new factors being taken into consideration and implemented by the major search engines.
A list of countries for using in select drop-down lists in HTML forms.
Recently I was put in a situation where I had created a dynamic site that, prior to launch, needed Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL’s. Without any admin access to the IIS server I was working on, no IIS modules/filters and extremely limited access in the control panel I came up with a method of URL rewriting purely in PHP without Apache and mod_rewrite.
