http://dotwebs.com/blog Dotwebs stuff and more Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/welcome-to-the-real-world/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/welcome-to-the-real-world/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 09:36:34 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1741 I came across this video today while following a discussion on Freelance Ireland's group on LinkedIn. The discussion was about businesses or freelancers selling themselves short. Watch the video and see how ludicrous this is when you relate it to the vendor/client relationship in real life situations.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/welcome-to-the-real-world/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/hosting-headaches-and-why-you-need-to-stay-in-control/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/hosting-headaches-and-why-you-need-to-stay-in-control/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:48:15 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1732 Your client wants to work with you but is happy to use their existing hosting provider. Fine. You ask them for the FTP and/or control panel access. They don’t have a clue what that is, so you explain and then they go off  to look for it. Days or weeks later, they send you a copy [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/hosting-headaches-and-why-you-need-to-stay-in-control/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-write-stuff/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-write-stuff/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:05:49 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1676 Content is King! Of course it is. What is the point in having a website for your business if the content is poor and doesn't relate your products or services well? So many business owners get caught up with how their site will look, and if it will be listed on the first page of the search engines.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-write-stuff/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:41 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1461 Microsoft recently announced on their blog that they will continue to support their now 8-year-old  browser IE6 until 2014. For readers unfamiliar with the reasons why this might be news-worthy,  it is mainly because we web designers have wasted half our lives trying to get our client’s websites to display correctly in this antiquated browser and [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/ie6-till-2014-do-us-part/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/web-useability-captchas-the-imagination/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/web-useability-captchas-the-imagination/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:46:14 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1582 This week I spent a while looking at captcha scripts with the purpose of finding the ultimate one that will both be secure and user-friendly. I am regularly called upon by him indoors, who could be described as a 'typical user', to explain why forms won't submit for him. To me, the process is straight-forward, but to the 'typical user' it's not always obvious and I have had to save both the online transaction and the actual computer from the wrath of his anger.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/web-useability-captchas-the-imagination/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/5-really-sexy-plug-ins-for-wordpress/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/5-really-sexy-plug-ins-for-wordpress/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:43:27 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1356 Recently we listed what we think are the 5 most essential plug-ins for WordPress, and 5 Useful but not essential ones. Today's round up is a list of the ones we think are the sexiest.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/5-really-sexy-plug-ins-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/ie-6-double-margin-fix/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/ie-6-double-margin-fix/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:58:48 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1487 I hear a lot of talk on Twitter and the bloggosphere about rendering issues in IE6 * and in my experience the most common one is the double margin problem. Let’s say, for example, you have a container div with a width of 900 pixels: #container { width: 900px; } Then you have two inner divs which go side [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/ie-6-double-margin-fix/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/flash-on-top-quick-fix/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/flash-on-top-quick-fix/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 16:39:37 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1203 If you’ve used  Flash and DHTML on the same page may have come across this problem. In most browsers Flash will always display above other layers. So if you have have a CSS drop-down menu or pop-up lightbox image gallery, you will find the Flash element obscures your DHTML layer. The Solution You will need to add [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/flash-on-top-quick-fix/feed/ 0 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/join-the-rush-online/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/join-the-rush-online/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:26:07 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1140 You may know your products or services like the back of your hand but does your website describe what you do well enough for potential customers to want to contact you? Having an informative website allows you to communicate your message to a much wider audience as well as enabling you to instantly provide updated information about your products or services to your existing customer base.]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/join-the-rush-online/feed/ 2 http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/spry-menu-fix-for-ie/ http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/spry-menu-fix-for-ie/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:49:52 +0000 Dorothy http://dotwebs.com/blog/?p=1117 Anyone using Dreamweaver CS3 to create Spry horizonal menus will discover that they don’t display correctly in Internet Explorer.  There is a simple fix for this. In the CSS file add a width to the submenu style – around line 42: ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul { width: 250px; margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; z-index: [...]]]> http://dotwebs.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/spry-menu-fix-for-ie/feed/ 1