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As cool as email testing can get

I’m having a crazy morning trying to troubleshoot an email template for Lotus. The problem is that it shows fine in Lotus 7 and 8, but one person on the client side is using weird Lotus 7.0.2 and it just wouldn’t show normally there. Black text on white background inside a table cell is missing! [...]

 

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Creating Print Versions of Pages

I was just thinking about how best to handle having web version of a page and a print version. There’s two approaches, one of them is having 2 separate pages www.tanyanam.com/contact and www.tanyanam.com/contact?version=print. But when you think about SEO, you’d have to either put “NOINDEX” on every printable page or block them in robots.txt. That’s [...]

 

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HTML/CSS/PHP code editors

An excellent article from Smashing Mag with the list of editors for different platforms. Also includes features and pricing. The one I like? EditPlus! (yeah yeah, I’m on Win, so what? :) It’s lightweight, loads in seconds, yet has all the features I need. I would suggest improving the regular expression support for search & [...]

 

 

 

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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 [...]