Web Design & CSS
September 1st, 2008 at 03:36pm
Under Usability & Navigation+ Web Design & CSS
It is quite frustrating when accessing a site and reached a 404 page. Usually people would just click back or simply close the browser.
However, it is always recommended to make this 404 page useful. This way you would be able to keep your potential client when they fail to reach a page.
The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced that an ‘enhanced 404 page’ can be created in the webmaster tools. Once created, a widget can be placed on your customized 404 page. The page would then display something like this:
It contains:
- A link to the parent sub-directory
- A link to the sitemap
- A Google Search box
To obtain the widget, go to ‘Enhance 404 Pages’ section in webmaster tools, and a Javascript would be generated. Copy and paste the code and you are done. Remember to return a 404 code.
By Leo
August 26th, 2008 at 12:24pm
Under Web Design & CSS+ Web Hosting
Everything you need to grow your business online - MS Office Live Small Business
What exactly are included in this free, yet powerful package?
1. Free website with hosting (FREE FROM MS!!!)
2. Free domain name for the first year. After this year it becomes $14.95 per year (that’s a double of GoDaddy)
3. Online contact manager
4. Document manager
5. Workspaces
6. Project Manager
In my eyes, this is pretty much the whole MS Office suite packed online, for free!
If you want to expand your business, you can also consider these optional packages:
1. E-Commerce
2. Email Marketing
3. Search Marketing
4. More storage / users / tools
See more information or signup here: http://www.officelive.com
By Leo
April 11th, 2008 at 12:20pm
Under Freebies+ Newest Technologies+ Web 2.0+ Web Design & CSS+ Web Hosting
Do you want to host a website in Google? Now you got the chance. Google announced the preview release of the new Google App Engine, which allows you to build and run applications in Python in Google’s server infrastructure.
And guess what, it is free!
The Google App Engine applications are easy to build and maintain. You do not need to maintain your own server or hosting, as Google generously provides 500MB space for free. All you have to do is to upload the application, and it would be done. You can use a free domain name from appspot.com, or your own domain. You can also choose to share the finished application with the world or limit it to just yourself.
Did I mention free? Same as most of the other Google applications, having an account is free. The bandwidth should allow you do serve about 5 million page views a month, according to Google.
At this stage only free accounts are available. However, in the near future, you would probably be able to purchase more disk space.
Other features include (but not limited to):
- Sandbox - The sandbox isolates your application in its own secure, reliable environment that is independent of the hardware, operating system and physical location of the web server.
- Python Runtime Environment - The App Engine only supports Python at the moment. It is running Python 2.5.2.
- Datastore - App Engine provides a powerful distributed data storage service that features a query engine and transactions. Just as the distributed web server grows with your traffic, the distributed datastore grows with your data.
- Google Accounts - You can of course associate your application with your Google account.
- URL & Fetch Service - Applications can access resources on the Internet, such as web services or other data, using App Engine’s URL fetch service.
By Leo
October 6th, 2007 at 12:07pm
Under Web Design & CSS
I was trying to find a solution for generating PDF online. The most popular way is to use the PDFlilb. However, I am on a shared server and I do not have control over what is installed. And the server people refuse to add this.
Therefore I have to find an alternative solution. I found this and tested it - and it works!
FPDF is a PHP class which allows you to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.
All you need to do is to upload a PHP file, a CSS, and a font folder, and run the script from your page. The script can just be copied and pasted from the tutorial. And there you go - a PDF file. You can set the paper size & orientation as well.
This also supports image on the file.
By Leo
October 6th, 2007 at 11:54am
Under Email+ Web 2.0+ Web Design & CSS
For the ones who have to design HTML emails for clients, you may have been facing this issue. When you try to cascade some images, you might find gaps at the bottom of the images - only on Windows Live Hotmail opened in Firefox - they just won’t stick together.
Our company has to process a lot of HTML email send-outs every week, and this has been causing us a lot of trouble.
Finally we found what has gone wrong.
Windows Live Hotmail renders HTML in standard mode. Any inline element (eg. img) in a table cell will be aligned to the text baseline. This allows space for any descenders that extend below the baseline for some letters.
To fix this is really simple: put style=”display:block;” on the img tags.
When will MS stop giving us problems?
By Leo
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