How to use jQuery’s .animate to have a scrolling div element
When you have limited space on a page but require more text than the space allows, a nice trick to to have a scrolling effect for that div only. I personally don’t like having a scroll bar down the right hand side. When you’ve put in the effort to create a wonderful design, having a [...]
404 error when copying a site from a local server to live
When creating a new wordpress site, i’ll use my laptop as the development copy while I get together the theme, plugins and structure I’ll be wanting to use. Whenever I’m using permalinks, things will be absolutely fine locally but as soon as I copy the website to a live environment, all the permalinks will no [...]
Random Website Viewer
A while back I had what can only be called a ‘surfing block’. I wanted to find some new interesting design ideas and thought to browse some random sites looking for inspiration. Google at the ready and hands on the keyboard… nothing. My mind emptied and I froze and for the life of my I [...]
How to use Uploadify with Coldfusion
Installing Uploadify This is a simple post on how to use the excellent uploading jQuery, Uploadify, with Coldfusion 6. You will need to find and download jQuery, swfobject.js and the jQuery-Uploadify.xxx.js library from the uploadify site Create two files in the downloaded uploadify directory (the same as the default uploadify.css). The first should be called [...]
How to automatically add an image to pdf links
One of the things I like to do as standard is to add a nice little pdf logo to any pdf links. This allows users to quickly see that there is something a little bit special on the page and attracts the eye to content. This code will automatically update any pdf links without any [...]
Dreamweaver CS5 to add support for Content Management Systems
The new version of Dreamweaver is to be released by Adobe. One of the hot new features to appear in CS5 is support for authoring and testing of content in 3rd party applications such as Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. Increasingly sites are being generated with customisable content in mind and due to the maturity of [...]
Are Opt-outs legal? (UK Law)
After some research the issue of opt-ins and opt-outs basically comes down to Data Protection laws. Data protection requires that storage of personal information for any purpose requires the consent of the owner. When creating a checkout process or a registration wall, consent is implicitly implied by the act of filling in information and clicking [...]
Add Twitter to WordPress
This is a very simple guide to adding a ‘tweet this!’ link to your Wordpress blog
Coldfusion – CFQuery Variables and Parameters
This is a list of all the variables returned by a CFQuery in Coldfusion 8