If there’s something I really hate about doing webdesign is having to making sure the design is running the same on all browsers running on all platforms. There are endless little issues that could drive the most patient of people absolutely insane, and the problem is that we usually have no way of knowing what […]

I can’t imagine why, but over half of the world’s web surfing population is still using old versions of Internet Explorer (IE) - most running the Windows XP  bundled Internet Explorer 5 (IE5), Internet Explorer 5.5 (IE5.5), Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and the various Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 or 2 versions (IE6-SP1, IE6-SP2). […]

There are endless hosting solutions out there with endless options for you to choose from. The most common question that I get on e-mail is what I recommend for hosting. Beginners usually look for shared hosting providers and the more advanced users usually ask for Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a Dedicated Server (DS) hosting […]

Site slow? account CPU overloaded? Make sure you’re running PHP accelerators on your server.
Recently, a colleague has been having trouble with his site, as his medium-size Drupal website has been running extremely slow and overloading the server hosting account. This could have been due to a number of things, but sometimes even a Googlebot visit […]

Drupal supports Unicode (UTF-8) out of the box and so Unicode should be used for all your Drupal installations. Problem is, some things you do with your Drupal installation might result in a database or a table that have non-unicode  collation.
Here are a few general tips on making sure everything is using Unicode […]