I tried to change the quota on an email account in cpanel this morning, but it kept giving me an ‘Invalid maildirsize’ error and wouldn’t let me change the quota. I did a little research and found my answer here. Basically the maildirsize file had gotten corrupt somehow. Deleting that file fixes the problem. The […]
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I used to set my background images with HTML. I realize that this way is deprecated – meaning that it is no longer a part of the HTML standard. But, since you may still see it done this way in old web pages, I want to include it here: <body background=”photo.jpg”> This may still work
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Some people ask me about the tools I use for web development. My favorite computer is my iMac with a 24 inch screen. I also have a dual monitor setup using a Samsung widescreen TV/Monitor. My next favorite is my 13 inch Macbook Pro. It is the perfect size. I had a 15 inch and
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UPDATE: Since this post was written over 8 years ago, I have started using Stripe as the best payment processor for websites. Now, there are many online payment options but my go to payment processors are Stripe and PayPal. I usually offer both services on my websites because some people prefer PayPal instead of entering their
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The more I use jQuery, the more I like it! Today’s tip is how to use a jQuery plugin called Superfish to create a drop-down menu on your web page. You can download the plugin and find more documentation for it here. Once you’ve downloaded the plugin, you should move the css, images and js
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One of the questions I get asked the most is how to make a link open in a new window instead of replacing the current web page. It’s usually a good idea to open external links in a new window or tab so that your visitors don’t move away from your website. Even if they
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards for the web. Most, if not all, browsers are written to comply with the standards created by the W3C. If you want to make sure that your web pages are going to work in most browsers, then you should validate your web pages to make sure that
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A friend of mine recently received an unexpected, rather large bill from an expensive, online stock image company. His website development had been outsourced to someone overseas through a well-known website that matches up developers with people needing web related services. The developer had decided to copy images from the stock image website instead of
Sometimes for beginners, or even those of us that have been doing this for a while, it may be difficult to see how to use PHP and JavaScript together to make the page work correctly. I often have to stop and remind myself of the basics. HTML and JavaScript (which includes JavaScript libraries, such as
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We used to add some color to our pages with the <font> tag, but since that tag has been deprecated, we need to use CSS to change the color. Since CSS can be put inline, we could just add it to the style attribute of many of the HTML tags like this: <p style=”color: red”>My
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