Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode Fix

February 25, 2010
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Got problems with your web pages when Internet Explorer isn’t in compatibility mode (eg. Is running as Internet Explorer 8)?
Try using this meta tag in the header of your pages;
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″>

Free online photoshop alternative

February 5, 2010
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Just a quick one guys; If you need photoshop but don’t have it installed on your local machine try PIXLR. It’s an online replacement to photoshop if you don’t have it to hand. It’s not as good as photoshop (but what is, hey?) but it is handy to know.
Tell me what you think, and [...]

Windows bootable disk driver issue

February 5, 2010
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After downloading Windows 7 from MSDN Academic allience (blog to come soon) I burnt the ISO to a disk and went about formatting to install and test it out. However, shortly into the installation process an error message appeard stating that the drivers for the disk-srive (which windows was reading the disk from) couldn’t be [...]

Simple Email Form with validation code: Part 2

February 1, 2010
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Part 2 of this tutorial gives code to validate the form designed in part one, stopping spam and fake users submitting data.
Here is the code (it uses javascript);
<script>
function validate(form){

var name = form.name.value;
var company = form.company.value;
var description = form.description.value;
var telephone = form.telephone.value;
var contact = form.contact.value;
var AtPos = contact.indexOf(“@”);
var StopPos = contact.lastIndexOf(“.”);

if (description.length < 1) {
alert(“You [...]

Simple Email Form with validation code: Part 1

February 1, 2010
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This is my first real tutorial (more commented code than a real tutorial), and is as much for myself as everyone else (I’m using the blog as a sort of resource store for myself, with the added bonus that everyone else can see it too!).
Anyway, the idea here is some explained code to produce a [...]

CAPTCHA on blogs

February 1, 2010
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Opened wp-admin page this morning to find 65 comments. Thought for a moment that I may have had a huge responce to a post but it turns out that over 80% of them were spam! Time for a bit of spam prevention.
I used a simple CAPTCHA wordpress plugin which doesn’t require real people to input [...]