This is kind of a ‘note to self’… When specifying pixel dimensions in html attributes e.g. width=”200px” in an html email, drop the units – width=”200″ since for some reason Outlook 2007 doesn’t support the units. Nice rendering engine MS…
If I’d known this stuff when I first started to design databases for web applications, I think it would have helped me a lot, these are not necessarily ‘formal recommendations’ or even what some people might call ‘best practice’, but these rules work for me when I’m designing my web applications. It makes development quicker, [...]
It seems that with the credit-crunch / recession that we’re already in (as far as I’m concerned) that my customers focus has changed – dramatically, literally all my customers are working differently now. Up until three months ago, the phone wouldn’t stop ringing with people asking us to develop new websites and applications. Thankfully the [...]
This is a quick one, but hopefully some people will find it useful! This simple script normally returns the full Linux path to your files, e.g. /var/www/vhosts/leadingedgescripts.co.uk/httpdocs/ Simply create a PHP file with the following contents: <?php echo getcwd(); ?> Copy it to your PHP enabled server (using FTP/SFTP etc) and visit it in your [...]
As the owners of Clear Media UK Ltd, our web development company, my partner and I are constantly looking for ways to increase our productivity and improve the quality of our code. For a while we were creating vast single CSS documents for each website, and writing all sorts of CSS hacks to ensure our websites [...]