Nov 10 2011

Permalinks not working in WordPress other than default?

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This has plagued mankind for centuries and forced wordpress users to default to the default setting in the Permalinks structure.

Okay maybe not for centuries and maybe just me (as far as I know) but anyhow here is the solution

 

I would say though before you are doing any of this to contact your web hoster first with the issue as link mine (Dream Hosting) they did it for me (they are fantastic although which is probably why I never learned!).

Also make sure you are running the latest version of PHP.


Nov 9 2011

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in WordPress?

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This took a day out of my life that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. So here is the solution

  1. Download your wp-config.php file
  2. Enter the following line (above (above wp_initial_constants( );
  3. define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);
  4. This should work
  5. If it doesn’t open notepad
  6. copy and past this line: memory_limit = 64MB
  7. Save as php.ini
  8. Upload to root or www/public_html folder
  9. Fingers crossed for you!

Special Thanks to ‘galbaras’ for this.


May 17 2011

Keynote and session videos for Google I/O now live

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With Google I/O 2011 just two days behind us, we wanted to thank the nearly 1 million developers who joined us at Moscone Center, attended I/O Extended events and watched online via I/O Live from 161 countries around the world.  Content taken from: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/keynote-and-session-videos-from-google.html

Keynote Session I/O

Keynote Session 2 I/O


May 11 2011

Checking Browser Compatibility before site launch!! We have lift off!

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Check out Launchcheck – a tool dedicated to cross browser compatibility before launch.

Launch Check screenshot


Mar 28 2011

Make CSS rounded corners easily

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Check out this website!

http://www.generateit.net/css-corner/index.htm

Generateit CSS

Great job for saving time on all the ‘spring cleaning’ jobs in website design.


Mar 16 2011

Beautiful Accidents in Advertising

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Found this on my travels in London Underground!

WTF!!  Is there a hand holding the train??

Before train

Nope just a bacon sandwich!! hehe





Dec 11 2010

Great Online Font Preview!

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Flipping Typical Preview

Just a short mention to a great online tool I found at http://www.flippingtypical.com that allows you to preview your system fonts for when you need to match something exactly right for your site or documents. Seems like the days are long gone of cycling through Photoshop’s library or previewing it in Word!

Just type in the text and click any font you like the look of to get a bigger preview.

There is even some basic formatting like BOLD, Italic and

    underline

If you fancy making your own, you can download the script from here: http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect


Oct 28 2010

Gravatar- Personalize your blog posts

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Gravatar- Personalise your blog posts

Gravatar stands for ‘Globally Recognized Avatar’

It is a very clever tool that allows you to associate an image such as a picture of you and associate it with an email address.   This is very useful especially getting your posts and comments noticed in blogs etc. and beats the hell out of those pointless yellow smiley avatars or even the Yahoo 360 (which even the guys seems to be female?!).

Signup is easy and when you upload an image you are also able to crop it and give it a rating certification.  This is to allow some people that have slightly shall we say ‘riskay’ avatar images not to show on a Fisher Price Forum for example.   This of course is subject to abuse and has been  criticized heavily by other bloggers and users.   Personally, I like that it asks the moral question to do the right thing and rate your image how you see it.  Maybe I am naive but I don’t believe someone would knowingly abuse this free tool knowing that in all likelihood they will be taken down after a few hours.

There is too little trust in the world!

Check out this video, explaining it all.