Posts Tagged with 'Web Design'

April 24, 2007

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5 Reasons Not to Resize the Browser Window of Your Visitors

Some website developers prefer to resize the browser window of the visitors, without their permission, to display their own creativity in terms of flash, presentations and other graphics in either a full screen window or a browser window size that best displays what they have created. These developers either just do not know that it annoys most of the visitors, me included, or may be they never gave it a thought. Its impact on a business is even more, when

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Posted in: Internet | Web Design/Dev

March 26, 2007

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WordPress and Website Owners Do You have Directory Listing Enabled?

Call it my negligence or anything else but since the day I setup this website, I did not care to go back and check if I had taken care to disable directory listing on all the folders in my website. For those who are wondering what Directory Listing is, a simple explanation could be that with Directory Listing enabled, your web server will list or show all the files and folder within a folder that does not has an index

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Posted in: Internet | Security | Web Design/Dev | WordPress

February 27, 2007

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February Release: 20 Websites You Wouldn’t have Known About

Here is a list of 20 web sites that I found while casually surfing the Internet and I think they could be useful to you in some or the other way. 1. Timeticker.com – An excellent online tool for finding the current time in different countries and various time zones. Though there are other online websites for finding this out but this one is one of the simplest to use. 2. OpenLinuxRouter – Are you a small, medium size or

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Posted in: General | Internet

February 4, 2007

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Did you ever navigate a website without a single mouse click? Try this one!

When was the last time you browsed a website and did not click on anything to see the different pages and sections of the site? As far as I can remember, for myself, never! Today, I was surfing the web to search for help on CSS and designing aspects of navigation menu and found an amazing web site from Institute for Interactive Research @ [Don't Click It] and must say, it’s simply a pleasing experience to browse a website without

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Posted in: Web Design/Dev

December 20, 2006

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Easy Web Development with Firebug Add-on for Firefox

If you haven’t come across Firebug yet, you are missing a lot of good things that Firefox can do for you. Firebug is an amazing Firefox add-on that lets you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. The entire add-on is under 300k in size and offers the following features. One key stroke to open the interface. Global enable and disable options for websites. Option for blacklist and white listing websites. Inspect and edit

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Posted in: Firefox | Software/Apps | Web2.0

November 24, 2006

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Six Simple Rules to Follow when Creating a Website

1. Accessibility Your website including all the content that’s available on it, must be accessible to all individuals including those with disabilities. Ensure that your website is accessible using applications such as Home Page Reader. 2. Follow Standards Make sure you use W3C standards as much as possible. Following the standards gives you browser independence and since not everyone will use the same browser as you do, it will only ensure that your website appears as you meant it to

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Posted in: Internet | Web Design/Dev

November 8, 2006

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How To: Conditional Display of AdSense in WordPress

My initial requirement was to be able to display Google Ads in the content and in the sidebar too. I installed AdSense-Deluxe thinking that it will take care of both of my requirements. The plugin does a very good job of displaying ads but it displays ads inside content only. I wanted to be able to display ads in sidebar too! Instead of searching for another plugin which can do that, I wrote a small script in my theme’s ‘functions.php‘

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Posted in: Google AdSense | Web Design/Dev | WordPress

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