Category Archives: Hints and Tips
HTML email with images broken in Windows Live Hotmail and Firefox
If you’ve ever had to design/build HTML emails for work or fun or whatever, you might have run into a bit of an issue getting your email to display consistently in the multitude of email clients out there. I tend to just test my emails in Gmail, Outlook, Windows Live Hotmail and occasionally Mac Mail. […]
August 10, 2009 Hints and Tips, Web Design, Web Development
Tags: baseline, descenders, email, email clients, email with images, fact, firefox, gap, Gmail, hassle, Hotmail, html email, images, lowecase, Mac, mac mail, Messenger, Outlook, pixel, quirks, solution, Windows, windows live messenger, work
“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” after WordPress upgrade
If you’ve done a wordpress upgrade which included either copying another wp database or changing the current one’s table prefix (as well as changing the $table_prefix PHP variable in your config file,) you will most likely be met with this warning when you try to log in: You do not have sufficient permissions to access […]
WordPress 2.8 automatic upgrade fails
I’ve been trying to update my wordpress blogs from various versions like 2.5 and 2.7 to the newest 2.8 for a while now, but was never able to do it automatically. Every time I pressed the “upgrade automatically” button, it told me it was downloading the latest file from WordPress, but it never got any […]
Album artwork doesn’t show on iPod Touch Cover Flow
If you find that your iPhone/iPod Touch isn’t displaying the album artwork in coverflow, but your computer that you sync it to shows it fine in iTunes, you’re probably wondering what’s going on! This happened to me a few days ago, so I did some searching – most people seem to think it’s only just […]
February 26, 2009 General, Hints and Tips
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Mod rewrite URL with 2 question marks?
A colleague asked me for some help with a few RewriteRules in his .htaccess today. One of the links he was trying to rewrite was unusual in the fact that is had 2 question marks “?” in it. Let’s say the url looked like: www.site.com/2009/1/is-this-a-legit-url?-i-don’t-know? and you wanted to rewrite that to: www.site.com/2009/1/is-this-a-legit-url-i-dont-know/ You might […]
February 10, 2009 Hints and Tips, Web Development
Tags: apache, colleague, condition, fact, file folder, job, legit, Mod, query, query string, querystring, question, question mark, question marks, request, request url, rewrite rule, RewriteCond, RewriteRule, RewriteRules, server, simple solution, URL, workaround, www
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