Category Archives: Websites
Digital Music
I’ve always been a far of buying CDs over downloading music. It is partly because I’m often not very good about backing up my computer files and I fear loosing my music collection, partly because I haven’t wanted to give up valuable space on my computer for storing those files, and partly because I’ve always [...]
Quickly See How Your Pages Will Look on a Mac
I came across the SafariTest tool yeasterday and thought it was worth a mention. Pretty simple to use—give it a URL and the site renders your page in Apple’s Safari browser and sends you a screenshot. At work I have access to Macs to test my sites on, but when I do freelance work at [...]
If I Were a Lego
A while ago I posted a link to a Comedy Central South Park character creator that I used to design what I would look like if I were on South Park. Today I discovered another great time waster that lets you build yourself as a plastic model, simila to the Lego people that we all [...]
TinyMCE is a great little editor
I just discovered a cool new WYSIWYG editor for web browsers called TinyMCE. It is entirely driven with JavaScript—no special plugins or applets required—and it replaces <textarea> tags on teh page at runtime, so it integrates seemlessly into existing apps while non-compliant browsers continue to show the textarea. With about 5 minutes of work I [...]
Adding POP Accounts for Multi-Hosted Domains
As many people know, I host my websites with a company called JaguarPC. JPC offers a “clients helping clients” forum, and given my background in both web development and system administration, I find myself answering a lot of peoples’ questions. One nice feature of JPC is that they allow multihosting—or hosting of multiple websites on [...]