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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Make Your CSS Menu Appear on Top

You have just finished creating or installing a killer CSS Drop menu for your website. There is only one problem, in IE6 the menu disappears where HTML form elements and Flash layers appear. Form elements in IE will always cover DHTML layers. That means if you have a DIV that pops up or floats on the page and it crosses with a form element such as the common SELECT box, the form element will bleed through the CSS menu no matter what zIndex you have set. An example of this happening could be seen a Hiveminds.co.uk if not for the fix used.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

ePressReleases Free Press Release Distribution Service

HapPress releases enable you to tap into multiple news sites across the Internet, including Google News, Yahoo News, and MSNBC Searchbot. In addition to attracting thousands of targeted visitors to your site, press releases can also create thousands of quality inbound links. However, to realize the full potential of your press release campaign, you must take time to optimize your press release properly. Press releases should be optimized in much the same way that search engine optimization specialists optimize ordinary web pages to achieve higher rankings. By optimizing your press releases for the search engines, you will receive much higher visibility. For example, one press release from MarketingExperiments.com resulted in 2,200 visitors and 5 interview requests by journalists. This is the power of a highly optimized press release. Press Releases are exciting announcements of either something special that has occurred in your company or website, or just a reminder that you exist. The beauty behind press releases is the exposure. Press release companies normally have high PageRanks within Google which means they are favored in the search results. If your website is new or not ranking well, press releases are a great way to jump-start your website. ePressReleases.org is Free news - press release - event announcement service where you can submit latest news, PR, events and published it to worldwide. ePressReleases.org is one of the popular PR site and your press release also listed on popular search engine like Google, Yahoo, Msn. So you also got promotions of your service or products by search engines also. Our aim is to publish every news, events, products & services information to the world. for more Information visit our site epressreleases.org py Publishing!

Friday, December 29, 2006

Civicspace CMS 0.8.5

CivicSpace is a community organizing CMS platform. It allows you to build communities online and offline that can communicate effectively. CivicSpace is built with the needs of distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging those around you in action.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

SmileTAG 2.4 AJAX powered Chat

Smiletag v2.4 is a free (GPL License) shoutbox written in PHP.powered by PHP. Smiletag is an interactive, easy to use, mini-message board with powerful template system. This lastest version, 2.4 is multi-language capable. Added also is the ability to set up to ten rotating avatars for postings. Some other features of smiletag are a Powerful template system, easy-to-modify templates using only simple tags, no programming skills required. Smart auto-refresh, automagically refreshes whenever a new message is posted, this is done using Ajax technology. Message Moderation, if enabled you can take control for every submitted message before they appear in the shoutbox.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

How to Install eAccelerator PHP Cache

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them. This is the second part of a series on how to install PHP and optimize it with a cache handler. Here we take a look at installing eAccelerator on a shared hosting account at Dreamhost. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Install Your Own PHP 5 on Your Web Host

Dreamhost runs PHP 5.1.2 by default. I wanted to upgrade to 5.2.0, be able to set my memory to something other than the standard 8M, use GD with Freetype and most of all have all of the improvements in PHP5 that come with version 5.2.0. One added PHP 5.2.0 feature was built-in JSON support which I just had to check out. This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to setup PHP5 on a web host that allows you to compile your own software. In my case it is Dreamhost but you may also be able to do this at Site5 Hositng, TextDrive and many others.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

PHP: What to Do When Your Web Host Turns Off Fopen

Many web hosts have turned off the PHP function fopen(). Because of the security problems is cause they have set the default PHP setting to "allow_url_fopen=false". A number of CMS use this function to communicate to websites to gather information and notices. So what do you do when those nasty errors start showing and your scripts no longer work?

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Drupal 4.7 Flag Content Module

The flag content module allows users to flag postings as offensive for the administrator to review. In this version you can flag both comments and nodes. You can also set multiple email addresses by node type. This is in addition to a global. The reason for flagging the posting can be given along with a text explaination.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

A High Demand for PHP Developers in 2007

PHP developers may finally get their props in 2007. Though PHP has been very popular in the past years the job market has not reflected a need for PHP only programming. The trend is changing. 2006 showed a steady rise in PHP usage. Now with a conjucture that is showing high promise PHP developers are sitting in good standing on the job market. With 2007 looking to be the boom year.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

2007 Prediction: A Selfish, Advertised and Commercial Web

The internet is going to go back to the dot.com days in 2007. Only this time it will be more serious. Expect all of the things that are associated with Web 2.0 to start costing or become part of a large income scheme. 2007 will be the year that venture capitalist will want to see some return on their investments. ROI will become the number one used acronym of the 2007 web.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Open Source CMS Search Engine

CMS Search - a new vertical search engine makes Open Source CMS research a little easier.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Pligg CMS Releases Beta 9 on Their One Year Anniversary

Pligg CMS is about to become a big time contender. With all the trends moving towards social communities Pligg has made itself a niche. While other content management systems have yet to gain on Pligg , Pligg has now made significant gains on the others. Beta 9 has been released and brings with it a number of surprise features.

Monday, December 18, 2006

eRuby: How to use Ruby CGI and ERB templating for Web Pages

Ruby is a great language to use to create a dynamic website. Here's how to use it to do CGI scripting. Using eRuby ERB templating to seperate the HTML from the script makes CGI a perfect alternative to using the Rails framework. Easy and faster than you would expect. So easy in fact that you may forget about using Rails all together.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide - CHM

This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you'll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more. The download is a CHM version of the book which allows searchs and bookmarking.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Ruby on Rails Documentation - CHM

Ruby is "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming". Rails is a framework built for the Ruby language. Rails swept to world-wide attention in the Spring of 2005. Since then, it has become a serious and popular alternative to traditional web development environments such as Java and .NET. Why? Because the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework have the best of both worlds.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

How to Change the Drupal CMS "node" to "content" in Links

All content management systems have some character flaw. In Drupal it is the use of the word "node" in system URLs. The word "node" can be really hard to understand for administrators and users of the Drupal CMS. Here's how to change it to a more user friendly word using a little known built-in function. You can now change "node" to something more recognizable and at the same time add a little more security.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

How to Write Webpages in Ruby without Using Rails

Ruby on Rails is gaining popularity but what do you do if you want to create web pages in Ruby but don't want Rails? The answer is eRuby. But not many web hosting know about eRuby. If you want eRuby then you will have to them ask for it. I found this out by sending a few emails. Here are the results of the survey.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Google's Adsense Branding Experiments

Google is experimenting with adsense again. Many still have not gotten used to the "Ads by Goooooogle". Complaints about the branding scheme have remained. Now there is a new logo appearing in ads. The new logo was seen on this site and on others in the last few hours. It shows an image with "ads by Google". What is irritating is that the background for the image does not match the chosen color in the ad setup.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Doing Web 2.0 Web Design with Drupal

Web 2.0 web design techniques seem to be taking over. This is a breath of fresh air from the typical three column layouts that are all over the web. Over last weekend I got curious as to how hard it would be to implement some of the Web 2.0 techniques using a CMS. The result was better and easier than I expected.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Advocating Linux

Some advice to people who wish to advocate Linux. Especially to those who want to criticise other operating systems in the process. It is unfortunate but some of these people seem to suffer from what has been called the Amiga syndrome: whenever anyone discusses computers, the stereotypical Amiga user will always claim that the Amiga is a better, faster, cheaper, more user-friendly computer than any other, ever, and any opposing view is treated as treachery, oppression, and a declaration of nuclear war. Some Linux users are using the same tactics.
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