I ran into this interesting tidbit of new info (new to me, at least) while looking for a way to track who’s hotlinking to images on my server and “borrowing” my precious bankwidth:
How do I… Customize Apache Server log files to track my Web site?
This will prove to be very useful as I setup [...]
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Creating custom access logs for Apache
August 25th, 2008Here’s a neat little CSS hack for IE7
August 18th, 2008Find this while experiencing headaches over why the ‘* html’ trick wasn’t doing anything for IE7:
*+html to the rescue.
FYI, that little snippet allows you to target Internet Explorer 7 without affecting other browsers.
Credit goes to: Simplebits.com.
Is it safe to come out and play?
August 8th, 2008Here’s an interesting survey that I recently stumbled accross that’s very useful when determing which fonts are “web-safe.”
“How sure can you be that the font you specify will be present on the end user’s machine? This is the latest cross-platform snapshot of the Code Style font survey and should give you greater confidence in selecting a [...]
CSS Sprites are everywhere!
July 23rd, 2008I love how something positive comes from a negative.
This is in reference to how using combined images and negative and positive CSS background positioning can help with load performance and reduce HTTP requests.
We’ve started using CSS sprites within our high performance projects along with other tactics to help bring users a faster page loading.
Building a custom blogging mess
July 23rd, 2008If you don’t already know, we’re always working on personal projects in our spare time when not being overrun by the demands of freelancing.
The main private project we’ve held over recent few years has been developing our own custom community blog build off of Wordpress blogging engine.
You can visit the ever-changing work in progress here [...]