Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

From web developer to designer…

A great developer, but not so much a designer. It seems that over the years working as a web developer all my my focus went into just that… developing. I read online though that there are many people who work exclusively as developers and never design a PSD in their life. One of the pitfalls [...]

Great WordPress Plugins

WordPress is certainly one of the most feature rich and user friendly publishing platforms available today. At the same time it is loved for its openness, extendability and great open source community. WordPress is today used in serious projects and on large commercial websites besides the millions of hard working bloggers sharing their valuable knowledge. [...]

Styling your WordPress Comments

I recently stumbled across a website that shows you how to customise your theme’s comments skin, and also provides you with some nice code/themes that you can drop into the template file, such as: Green Gravatar:  The Speech Bubble: The blog post can be found at: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/18/styling-your-wordpress-comments/. I realize though that it was written in 2007, and the wordpress code [...]

Remove scrollbars and get your facebook app/canvas iframe to autosize to height – FB.Canvas.setAutoGrow()

Note: This works with the new facebook 810px width canvas page! Also, my example is currently down, but the code below still works. If you have created a Facebook application that has an canvas iframe tab and you want the iframe to automatically grow to the size of the content, you can use FB.Canvas.setAutoGrow() within [...]

osCommerce v2.3.1 and SagePay Direct: Error 4020: Invalid IP Address

Two possible error messages for 4020: “Information received from an Invalid IP address” and just “Invalid IP address”. While I was configuring SagePay Direct for an osCommerce store I made, the checkout process wasn’t completing because SagePay was returning error 4020. This means that the IP address I added to the “Valid IPs” tab on [...]

The benefits of Google Analytics

I’m going to write a little bit about Google Analytics today, for those who don’t know anything about it. If you already use Google Analytics on your website then stop reading now, I’m only going to be going through the basics. So, what is Google Analytics? It’s an amazing web application that allows you to [...]