Posts Tagged ‘Web Development’

Test your website on Internet Explorer : Making sure you’re okay with IE5-IE6

By fiLi • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category: Web Development

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). [...]



Affordable Shared, VPS and DS Hosting Provider Reviews

By fiLi • Aug 10th, 2007 • Category: CMS, General tips, Web Development

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 [...]



PHP accelerators : Give your sites a performance boost

By fiLi • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Web Development

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 : Change DB and table collation to Unicode (UTF-8)

By fiLi • Apr 27th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Web Development

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 [...]



The external links dilemma : How to mark, preview, open-new and AJAX your outgoing links

By fiLi • Apr 12th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Web Development, Wordpress

External links are always a dilemma as a user that follows an external link using a simple click will leave your site. Can the visitors know what is an internal link and an external link? Do your visitors know that they’re leaving the site and when they do - will they come back?
Here’s my impression of [...]