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Category Archives: Web Design

Back into Web Design

It has been a long time since I’ve actually designed a website/theme from start to finish, mocking it up, slicing and implementing it. I did one over the last few days for my girlfriend Aimee and realised how out of practise I am. It wasn’t really my CSS skills lacking but in Photoshop I really [...]

Hosting Woes

Tom and I have had a hosting account with Startlogic for a few years now, it was very competitively priced and we wanted a cheap VPS. We haven’t had too many problems up until now, the uptime is good and the problems faced so far have only been with slow response times to online tickets [...]

Firefox 3

Firefox 3 was launched this morning (5am NZ time). Mozilla Foundation have made a huge marketing effort to the point of setting a world record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Now, you’d expect, with a market share just shy of 20% of the global web browser market share and that kind of [...]

deleteCell may have side-effects

UPDATE: I have created an interactive test case and an automated test case. Turns out the behaviour is reproducible. Now, is this a bug or am I just missing something about the way that method should work? I was debugging a client-side heavy application today in IE7 and ran up against a very weird bug. [...]

Millions of domains – Single Sign-in

Alright, “millions of domains” is a bit of an exageration, hundreds is more accurate. 613 to be exact. That’s how many domains one project I’ve been working on has. What makes this situation a little stranger is that all these domains point to the same hosting account. I’ll give a bit more information about the [...]