Every so often I come across a deep-level list that needs to be put into an HTML document. You can make yourself nuts with tons of classes, ID's and the like, but found that by creating classes for the styles you need, you can save yourself a lot of time. Thus, for each list-style: that I need, I create a CSS class: .olDecimal li {list-style: decimal;} .olAlpha li … [Read more...] about How to Manage Multiple Level Lists in Dreamweaver – Bullets, Letters, Numbers
Web Development
Run IE6 in Vista with Microsoft Virtual Machine and a Windows XP Image
As a web developer I still like to test my sites in Internet Explorer 6. And even though everyone really should upgrade from IE6 for a litany of reasons -- the least of which is security -- IE6 still remains a popular browser. One of the biggest problems for testing in IE6, however, is that it's pretty difficult to run IE6 in Vista (at least without quite a bit of registry … [Read more...] about Run IE6 in Vista with Microsoft Virtual Machine and a Windows XP Image
How to Test Your Website on Multiple Browsers on Multiple Operating Systems to Test Compatibility
As a web developer, one of the most common tasks I have in developing a website is making sure that the sites I design look the same in all major browsers. As it is in my opinion, impossible to test a site on every browser for every operating system, at this point in time I currently test all of my websites on IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox and Opera. Addendum: If you are running … [Read more...] about How to Test Your Website on Multiple Browsers on Multiple Operating Systems to Test Compatibility
Website in IE Shows Last Letter or Word of Text, but is Fine in Firefox
There are many things that will cause a site to display properly in Firefox but not in IE (especially in IE6). One of the surprise reasons that this may happen is due to HTML comments. The problem you get is that while viewing a site with Internet Explorer only, you see the last letter, letters, or words of your text in the wrong place on the page. If you test the site with … [Read more...] about Website in IE Shows Last Letter or Word of Text, but is Fine in Firefox
PHP/MySQL: How to Store Queries in a Separate Include File
When implementing a php/mysql database (or any database for that matter), it's sometimes easy to have all of the queries located in one place, as opposed to having them hard-coded into the pages. If the queries are hard-coded in, and the queries are reused on multiple pages (which they often are), it can be a cumbersome task to update all of the queries. Having hard-coded … [Read more...] about PHP/MySQL: How to Store Queries in a Separate Include File