A Couple of Recent Website Launches

For those that are interested here are a couple of links to some recently launched websites we've completed. Enjoy!

• Kaprun Holiday Apartment
• Hot Tubs Cheshire
  

The Best of the Web - Open Source

In this day and age you don't get owt for nowt right? Wrong!

The open source web community produces a whole host of software for you and me to download and install to our computers absolutely free of charge.

Here's my pick of the bunch, these are programmes I regularly use as alternatives to their often inferior paid-for peers:

Web Broswer
Firefox - Quite simply the best internet browser out there.

Email Client
Thunderbird - Brought to you by Mozilla, this Outlook alternative has all the features you'll ever need.

FTP
FileZilla - Straight-forward no-nonsense ftp client.

Database
MySQL - (My Ess Que El) The world's most popular open source database.

No, Your Website is not Malware!

If you tried a Google search this Sunday then you'd be forgiven for thinking that the whole of the web had turned into a nasty computer-harming virus-spreading hell hole.

Pretty much every result issued by Google search led users to a page warning them that their chosen site may harm their computer, barring entry onto said site.

Fortunately this was not the case!

Due to a bit of misplaced code at Google HQ, an employee had accidentally labeled the entire web as spam. The problem was soon rectified but left many users and webmasters wondering quite what was wrong with their sites!

Fuzzy Text in Flash

Getting text that appears fuzzy in you published Flash files but looks fine when authoring?

This effect can be avoided by placing text at whole co-ordinates on the stage.

For example, co-ordinates of x = 400.6 y = 150.1 would create the fuzzy text.

Co-ordinates of x = 400 y = 150 would not.

IE Flicker

Anyone that can help me with this will get my unbridaled thanks. When browsing a site i've created that uses pure CSS rollovers IE flickers. The link is: properties abroad

Many Thanks in advance

Norton Internet Security

Nothing has got me more wound up than this for a long long time. I made some simple changes to a site, externalising JavaScript and the like. Everything worked fine afterwards, rollovers et al, except I have some popup links on the site using "window.open". Norton kindly adds SymWinOpen script to a page with a JavaScript function disabling this function, brilliant! After hours figuring this out, I came accross this page:
http://www.mcse.ms/message1468891.html

Thanks to that man, I am now a happy bunny...

Disappearing text or images in IE?

This has been annoying me all day, every time I viewed a certain page on a site i was creating the text disppeared until i scrolled up or down. Found the following solution:

IE has a very strange bug where text or background images sometimes disappears from sight. These items are still actually there, and if you highlight everything on screen or hit refresh they'll often re-appear. Kind of strange, huh?

This problem mostly occurs on background images and on text next to a floated element. To remedy the problem, simply insert position: relative into the CSS command for the disappearing element, and for some bizarre reason that'll usually fix the problem. If this doesn't work (it sometimes doesn't), assign a width to the offending element in the CSS and that should fix the problem.

Source:
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/more-css-tricks.shtml