The multisite installation I am working with at the minute has nothing on the root URL, and a site added which is live and fully functional. The task emerged to change the root URL of the installation, so I set about seeing how this could be done with minimal effect on the live site. It [...]

As you are probably aware, HTML5 and older version of IE do not get on together. Chances are, your beautiful site you have just finished developing will look like a car crash when you load it up in Internet Explorer. The below snippets should fix this for you. Javascript createElement You will need to insert [...]

I am working on a WordPress Multisite setup with numerous plug-ins installed. Contact Form 7 is being used to power the contact forms on multiple locations on the site. For those of you who haven’t come across this before; it is a simple, but flexible plug-in to provide customisable contact forms on WordPress. Everything was [...]

In development it becomes a necessity on numerous occasions to move from one server to another; from localhost to live, staging to live, you get the drift. Moving a Magento installation can be very troublesome. More often than not the error that rears it’s ugly head is the dreaded 404 pages that appear either on [...]

As you know, Microsoft’s .NET development environment is very powerful, yet in some cases the syntax for what appears to be a simple task can be tedious. The example code within this entry is VB.NET. Let’s assume you have a List of animal objects where he animal object contains 2 properties; name and colour. The [...]

This morning I came across a rather annoying and troublesome issue that I had never encountered before. I was working on fixing some bugs on a live website and thus was editing the files through Filezilla using Notepad++. The issue arose when I was saving the files and they were automatically reuploaded. Filezilla would compact [...]

Twitter recently released a guide to their logo and brand. Within the document, they set out a number of rules and regulations to follow when creating links to Twitter accounts. I am sure many of you will agree that Twitter has shot itself in the foot with this new decision. The web is saturated with [...]

Turning off all errors in PHP is very simple. Inserting the code below at the top of your file will do this. On the contrary you may want to display all errors available. This is extremely helpful during development work and will assist with any problems you may have by displaying the stack trace of [...]