There’s times when you need to know the root path of a website as well as all of the configuration details of that server. This is actually very simple, we’ll explain how… Read more

A great way to reduce the need for a field heading/title is to include the informative text within the text field. This is most commonly used in search fields, where there’s often no further available room to include a heading alongside or above. Read more

Firstly, dotted borders on clicked links are there for a reason – For accessibility and usability. They may not look pretty on your newly designed website but some folk rely on them to get around the web. Therefore only remove if strictly necessary. Read more

When designing and developing websites it’s important to test in all of the most popular browsers. Those are currently Firefox, IE6, IE7, IE8, Google Chrome and Safari. For some reason PC users don’t seem to update their version of Internet Explorer so as each new version arrives on the scene we then have to develop for those very old browsers. Anyway, here’s how to do it… Read more

If you find your Wordpress Site is struggling speed-wise or you’ve been given your marching orders from your web hosts (due to high CPU usage) then read on and hopefully these few tips will help sort out and speed up your Wordpress Blog. Read more

This was always one of those problems that I had with CSS – getting the content to align to the bottom of it’s containing DIV, be it left or right align. So here’s how to do it. Read more

Here’s a quick guide on how to centre a DIV, both vertically and horizontally, in your web browser window. The main thing to remember is give your container div an absolute position and then the content div within a relative position. Read more

Apple Mail is great, such a pleasant email client to use for work and play but there’s one frustrating thing and that’s that there’s no obvious way of creating an html signature. So you’re stuck with just having text. Read more

Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your browsing experience. They sometimes take a little while to get the hang of, and more importantly remember, but when you’ve learned a few then this really will help quicken your surfing time. Here’s a few to get you started but if you take a look in the menu of your chosen browser you’ll see the shortcut alongside the description – keep learning them.
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Gone are the days when you ended up having a gazillion windows open all at once. The best way to view sites is by using tabbed windows. This then creates a new window within the current window and allow you to flick between sites rather than hunting around all those open windows. Shortcuts; Mac: Command (Apple) + T, PC: Ctrl + T.