Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Set Focus on Web Pages

I found a neat post for setting auto focus without interfering with a user’s input if the page hasn’t yet loaded over at Wait till I come.
It’s quite handy as it discusses the usability of such a feature.

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Adding Your Blog as a Search Provider

In IE7, adding your own custom search is beautifully simple now that Microsoft have added the Create Your Own to the ‘Find More Providers…’ link in IE7

So, it seems sensible that your blog would want a piece of the action.
To that end, here’s a quick example of my own search provider. As IE7 uses [...]

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Pings not back

I seem to be having trouble with my installation of Wordpress sending out pings to other sites, and also using the Ping-o-matic and Technorati RPC service.
This is becoming a nuisance, as every time I post (which has been becoming gradually more frequent lately), I have to manually ping Technorati.
I have refrained from using other blog [...]

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Wordpress 2.0.7

Just as I finish updating my version of Wordpress – another one comes along!
Although a bit of a nuisance, I security on your blog is never a bad thing!

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Making SSL Certificates for your IIS Server

With IE7 on the prowl, I’m having to look at self-signing certificates again to make them work properly.
I found a nice straight-forward how-to on Eric Longman’s blog, which keeps it simple using a Linux box and Windows Server IIS.
Check it out

Although I’ve fixed my certificates, there is still the problem with IE7 showing a big, [...]

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Web Access Key guidelines for the UK

While reading up on some Web-accessibility matters, I found that there were guidelines on the Cabinet Office site for such things in an effort to keep the UK consistent.
Although it is for public sector and service-based sites, it at least helps in making sure that any accessible areas of a site that you create will [...]

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