Ten Things to Do With IIS By Matt J. Foley As an IIS administrator it sometimes gets downright annoying having to fend off all the insults from Apache admins I meet claming innate server superiority. Generally the discussion about Web administration starts first with all the various security holes plaguing IIS and the negative press the platform garnered over the last year. Tip 10: Customize Your Error Pages Although this is quite simple to do, few people seem to take advantage of it. Tip 9: Dive into the MetaBase If you think Apache is powerful because it has a config file, then take a look at the MetaBase. Microsoft provides a GUI utility called MetaEdit, somewhat similar to RegEdit, to help you read from and write to the MetaBase. A word of caution though: Just like Apache conf files, the MetaBase is pretty crucial to the functioning of your Web server, so don't ruin it. Tip 8: Add spell checking to your URLs Tip 7: Rewrite your URLs
How To Make Your Own Banner For Your Website A banner might well be the representative of your site. It’s the little guys that goes around the internet and promotes you and your online brand. To grasp the attention of people, you need a good, noticeable banner. Before we go on, I want to point something out. MyBannerMaker MyBannerMaker is probably the simplest banner generator we’re going to see today. The real ‘styling’ of your banner happens in the background, border and effects department. Most of the time, a border is not advised, but there are two exceptions. There are several interesting effects that you can apply. After you’re done, you’ve got a few alternatives to downloading your banner. PureSilva BannerMaker My personal favorite to make your own banner is PureSilva’s BannerMaker. The BannerMaker website hosts a ton of available background images, of both pictures and abstract colour-themes. All the other functionality is there as well. Unlike on these other websites, your image isn’t already uploaded to a hosting site.
Top 5 Domain Name Generator Websites - The Web Squeeze Selecting a great domain name for a new website is important but finding just the right one that is available is often difficult. There are many websites that offer to help us find a unique domain name and I recently waded through many of them and evaluated their service. Here are my top 5 picks for Domain Name Generating Resources. Bust A Name Bust A Name is a beta word combining site. Domain Exposer This site is easy to use and will help you an extensive selection of available domains. You begin by selecting a keyword that describes your website. Domain Name Combination Checker Select up to 5 words that describe your business, product or service. Dot-O-Mator This is a good resource to help you find a combination of keywords. Nameboy Domain Search Nameboy.com is also a word combining website. I certainly hope this Top 5 list will help you to find your next domain name!
How to Redirect index.html to index.php - CSS-Tricks Just this past week I finished up with a redesign project for a client and took the project live. Later on in the afternoon the day of the launch, the client called me: Client: I just clicked on our site and it's not working!! Redirecting index.html to index.php If users have their browsers set to default to showing full URL's, their bookmarks will reflect this full URL. My first though was "too bad this isn't PHP already", because redirects in PHP are very easy: That is literally all you need to put in the the PHP file to make the redirect work. The "1" stands for "one second delay", which you can make any integer. .htaccess ReWrite Just add this rule to the .htaccess file and the redirect will happen server-side real quick and easy like. RewriteEngine on RewriteRule index\.html index.php [NC,R] UPDATE: from Malcolm New - apparently the above will match any filename like whateverindex.html, and this code below prevents that. RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ index.php [NC,R] Share On
Badge Any Feed with Yahoo! Pipes The Badger uses Yahoo! Pipes and JavaScript to create Web badges out of any RSS feed. Edit colors, change feeds, pages, and headlines, and pick up your source code at the bottom of the page. Boing Boing, TechCrunch, Slashdot, Digg News, and ProgrammableWeb all have examples ready to look at ... if you're looking for interesting feeds, check out Technorati Search or FeedFlinger. If The Progress Indicator is Spinning Forever And Not Loading.... The default Badger pipe is probably getting rate-limited. TechCrunch get this for your page Pick A Color: Apply Current Color To: Badge URLs, Headline and Other Plumbing: Your Source Code: Implementation Notes To try out your badge, grab the source, drop it into your page, save, and reload. Once it's working, please do your best to separate your presentation, structure, and behavior layers: If possible, the <STYLE> line should go in the head of your document.
Secrets of Self Taught Web Developers - DegreeTutor.com Linux was once the, "little engine that could" of the software market. Linux spent its early years in the proverbial caboose behind the behemoths Windows and Macintosh. However, it wasn't long before devoted Linux users developed an array of programs and applications comparable to Microsoft or Macintosh applications, putting Linux on the fast-track to becoming an open-source superstar. Linux users have just as many programs and applications available as other users, and these programs often rival their Windows and Macintosh compatible cousins. Firefox Firefox is the King Midas of all Open Source software. Apache Like Firefox, Apache needs little introduction. Freespire Freespire is poised to overtake Synaptic/Adept as a program that increases the efficiency of software installation on Linux systems. According to the Freespire community, Freespire is: Open Office Open Office is the free, altruistic cousin of Microsoft Office; it is the program that keeps giving. Open Office Features: Konqueror
WhoLinksToMe.com - ego surfing at its finest XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experience Improving the Web Forms Experience Steven Pemberton CWI and W3C Kruislaan 413 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nlwww.cwi.nl/~steven About the Instructor Steven Pemberton is a researcher at the CWI, The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, a nationally-funded research centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the first non-military Internet site in Europe. Steven's research is in interaction, and how the underlying software architecture can support the user. Steven has been involved with the World Wide Web since the beginning. Steven is also Editor-in-Chief of ACM/interactions. Objectives HTML Forms, introduced in 1993, were the basis of the e-commerce revolution. The advantages of XForms include: It improves the user experience: XForms has been designed to allow much to be checked by the browser, such as types of fields being filled in, or that one date is later than another. This tutorial works from a basis of HTML Forms, and introduces XForms step-by-step. Plan Buying