This was quite frustrating, until we figured it out.
Whilst developing a site, I noticed that the main column on the index page had suddenly disappeared. It was working fine earlier and I couldn’t figure out what had happened.
Recent articles & quickbits
Posted:Jun 30
Adblock Plus warning
Posted:Jun 24
OpenGoo
OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office.
Web office
It is a complete solution for every organisation to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents.
Posted:Jun 16
HTML5
Is it just me, or does anybody else think HTML5 is going to be rubbish?
I understand it’s still in draft form and from what I last read if it carries on at the rate of progressions it’s currently at, we’ll have a recommendation by 2022. By which point we’ll be needing HTML6 or whatever’s next.
Posted:Jun 02
B.R.A.T. (Big Red Angry Text)
Let me explain, this isn’t something I created, just merely something I came across, that I think is really good and thought everyone should have the opportunity to know about it.
B.R.A.T. is a concept created by Marco Battilana at Accessites.org.
It’s brilliantly simple.
Posted:May 29
The real world
Watch the video to see that in the real world, this just doesn’t happen. It would never work. So why do clients always try it in our industry.
Posted:May 21
Receiving your MT mail on GMail
Up until yesterday I’d been receiving my email using RoundCube or AtMail. Both are hosted on the MediaTemple servers, and are included in the Grid Server package.
I’ve never been quite happy with either of them, flicking between the two over the last year. So after RoundCube totally bringing down the JavaScript engine in Safari yesterday, I’ve decided to give Google Mail a go.
Posted:May 14
Moving back to MT
Why did I move back?
It was an easy decision.
I only decided to leave MediaTemple after all of the horror stories of sites being down for days at a time. I however have never suffered from this. Apparently it’s because Cluster 2 on MT’s Grid Server is currently split into two different environments.
The one I’m on is the newer one, the one that’s more stable. More information can be found on MT’s blog.
Posted:Apr 30
Drop-down menu bug in IE8
In IE8 I was testing a form. When I got to a drop-down(just a basic HTML one, no special CSS or JavaScript) it triggered IE’s inbuilt pop-up blocker, I tried numerous times with the pop-up blocker enabled and disabled. I also turned all of IE’s security settings down to the lowest they’ll go.
