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 change the cursor theme back to default after installing Kubuntu from Ubuntu.
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.
After downloading Thunderbird I wanted to import all of my email accounts and settings from my C: partition to my new Windows 7 partition. Heres how…
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.
The flexibility of the Nautilus file manager on GNOME allows you to easily access remote filesystems via FTP as if it was mounted as a local directory. Firing up gEdit got me thinking “Can I use gEdit’s file browser to edit remote files?”. Yes you can and in theory you should be able to open and edit any remote files with any application on Linux.
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.
As a Linux user I was quite surprised to see GIMP crash on Windows Vista when using certain features like “Colourise”. I’ve never had a problem with GIMP on various Linux distributions so I wasn’t sure if there was a bug in the Windows build or something up with Windows in general. With no updates available and nothing on Google I started thinking it was something to do with Windows and permissions.
A list of countries for using in select drop-down lists in HTML forms.
I was recently asked (by my girlfriend who’s learning HTML) what image formats to use on websites. After trying to explain things such as transparency in GIFs I thought it would be best just to write it up.
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.
Firefox excels when it comes to addons and there is over 121 million on the official website. Shifting through them I’ve come up with 5 essential addons for web development that are available cross-platform, some you’ve probably heard of but nevertheless important to put down.
As a website developer I was confusing the practice of SEO with what I like to term SEF (Search Engine Friendly), something which I believe is a common misconception out there. I thought I would help define the clear differences by writing this as it’s something of great interest to me at the moment.
A quick example on embedding Flash objects in valid XHTML Strict.
Dan Gibbs is a web developer, designer and SEO consultant involved in devon web design.
