These things are far too hard

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 [...]

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A few months back we completed a security update on one of our main servers and whilst we were performing the update we realised that there is a distinct lack of information out there concerning the security of PHP functions, and no good lists of functions that should be banned or switched off. When you install PHP, [...]

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This post assumes that you’ve installed Subversion on a Windows server, if you haven’t I’m planning on writing a detailed post about how to install Subversion and get it all up and running so I’ll try and get that done asap. It also pretty much assumes that you are using the Wonderful (yes that’s a capital [...]

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Ever made an amazing CSS website firmly centred on the page, only to find out that it doesn’t work properly? No, of course you haven’t. Well unfortunately I have. With most of the CSS centring techniques I’ve seen, when your visitors resize their browser, or are using 800 x 600 screens, the top of your [...]

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Yes it’s possible, here’s how – just add <img src=”yourimg.gif” style=”display:none;”> to the bottom of your email. Somehow this allows Outlook to figure out the image it’s supposed to use for the background image. However, even though this technique works for Outlook 2003, I’ve not tested it on any other PC email client. This technique [...]

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