I guess the Guarddog was sleeping, or chewing on a bone, because a few emails from domains and addresses I have blacklisted are still coming through. I blacklisted On-One Softwares domain name (Good software, but they send a LOT of emails once you download a trial), and after receiving another email from them a few days later, I black listed the actual address the email come from. But alas, they are still coming through. I got two more from them today. There have been another few domains that sneak past the Guarddog, but On-One is the main offender. I will start tracking them no as well.
I have forwarded the messages to MXGuarddog, so we’ll wait and see if they respond.
I saw this picture today, and not only did I think it was pretty funny, I thought about how much I think “The Cloud” is a dumb idea. Its considerably slower when using apps (Have you tried Photoshop Express Online? What about Premiere Express Online?), and if you are storing files “In The Cloud”, what happens if the servers crash, or the company disappears before you can get them back (Happened to me and thousands of others when Bubbleshare and Video Egg went away). You might say, “Well you have to keep a local backup copy!” – Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of “The Cloud”?
I am not a fan! It reminds me of how it used to be cool to back up your sites and databases on your server within your site. That was a dumb idea too!
Upon building a site for a client who wanted different backgrounds and headers on his site for different occasions, I came across the Chameleon CSS plugin. Put, very simply, it allows you to automatically schedule the use of different CSS Style sheets at different times (Time, Date, Day and Month). Its compatible with WP Super Cache, and is really easy to use.
Check it out now in the Plugin Directory – Chameleon CSS.
Continuing on from the last few post’s about how the layout of this site appears in Internet Explorer, as opposed to every other browser, both obscure and popular, David from Digital Raindrops suggested I run the sites code through the W3C Validator to see if there are any errors.
And sure enough, I had simply forgotten to close a Center tag on an image, which in true IE fashioned, spilled over and ruined the entire site layout, where every other browser was able to deal with it. In the end it was my fault, but I did learn some interesting stuff along the way. Adobe have a feature online now called “Cs Live Services”. As yet, I haven’t had time to explore them completely. What I did find is that Adobe have their own equivalent to Browser Shots, called Adobe Browser Lab.
It is free until April 2012, after which time I expect it will be quiet expensive, and part of a much broader package of software, as Adobe seems to me to be wanting to move us all to using their products online instead of locally on our computers, in an effort to thwart piracy of their programs. Like most Adobe stuff, it looks great!
As you can see, it has considerably less choices than Browser Shots, but it has more than 90% of the world’s computer users covered, which also makes it faster. The drawback for me is that the default size setting for the results is 100%, meaning its a one for view, it shows your site EXACTLY, size and all. In the options, you can reduce the size to only 75%. If you want to view two browser views side by side in a 2-up configurations you had better have a BIG screen.
A very useful tool, and my suggestion is to use and enjoy it while you can!
Since I have building sites, I more often than not run my creations through browsershots.org to see how they look on multiple browsers. Browser Shots presents to you a screen capture of how your site will look on dozens and dozens of different browser and operating system combinations.
It’s a very handy tool. I am using it myself right now to troubleshoot this very site! As you will see from the capture below, this site looks right in most browsers, most except all variants of Internet Explorer of course!
During construction of this site, I have viewed it on Firefox on both Mac and Windows, and Safari on the Mac, and it looks great! For some reason, I just fired up Windows to check it out on Internet Explorer…….
The last thing I expected was to see this:
Why is it that the dominant web browser interprets web site code differently to every other browser? Who’s right and who’s wrong?
If you are viewing this site with IE, I apologise, and will try to sort this out soon.
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I guess the Guarddog was sleeping, or chewing on a bone, because a few emails from domains and addresses I have blacklisted are still coming through. I blacklisted On-One Softwares domain name (Good software, but they send a LOT of emails once you download a trial), and after receiving another email from them a few days later, I black listed the actual address the email come from. But alas, they are still coming through. I got two more from them today. There have been another few domains that sneak past the Guarddog, but On-One is the main offender. I will start tracking them no as well.
