Monthly archives: March 2008

 

 

 

 

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7 Cool Online Tools for Web Dev

Favicon maker: http://favikon.com/ Stripe generator: http://www.stripegenerator.com/ Vector image from photo: https://www.profilepicasso.com Vector from bitmap: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ Button generator: http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ Loading gif creator: http://www.ajaxload.info/ Icons: http://www.iconarchive.com/ Free online animated gif creator: http://picasion.com/ You suck at photoshop http://laughingsquid.com/you-suck-at-photoshop-by-donnie-hoyle/

 

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Free Visio alternative

Yes, i’d even say it’s better than Visio for all your diagram-drawing needs. The software is called Dia and available for linux/windows. Windows version is here: http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html Very cool stuff. This is my first tryout:

 

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Wordpress editor removes div tags

How to fix: Option 1: Disable WYSIWYG editor for user In WordPress admin panel, go to “Users” tab and uncheck “Use the visual editor when writing” box. Option 2: go inside the code and fix it Find file wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php and change this line: $valid_elements = ‘p/-div[*],-strong/-b[*],-em/-i[*],-font[*],-ul[*],-ol[*],-li[*],*[*]‘; to this: $valid_elements = ‘-strong/-b[*],-em/-i[*],-font[*],-ul[*],-ol[*],-li[*],*[*]‘; EDIT: Apparently it doesn’t [...]

 

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Margins between images in Hotmail emails

Well… i have to confess sometimes i do email coding at my new job. Not so much coding as debugging it. Yes, we use HTML tables, circa 1999. You just have to, no other choice with flimsy CSS support. And the most annoying email clients are Gmail (sometimes), Outlook 07 and Hotmail. Hotmail being the [...]