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Joomla/JCE "Read More" bug

I discovered a little bug in the excellent Joomla JCE Editor today. After a fresh install of Joomla 1.5.14 and JCE 1.5.7, I noticed that, when you click the "read more" editor button to add a page break the editor gave up the ghost and you were redirected back to the administrator homepage.

Using htaccess to create a 301 error code

If you, as we just have, rebuild your website and, hence, the page names and architecture, you will need to tell Google where to find the equivalent of the pages it already has cached. If you just let your old website pages disappear without telling Google this information you will be leaving loads of dead ends, broken links, and losing loads of hard earned page ranking.

Keyword and description metatag test

This post is a simple test of the effect of keyword and description metatags.

Once upon a time keyword and description metatags where the be-all and end-all of SEO. Obviously times have changed and, having read many reports about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of these antiquated devices, we decided to run our own little experiment.

Cufon Dynamic Heading Font Replacement

We've recently been playing with the latest font replacement contender, Cufon, and have found it most satisfying!

Support for inline-block CSS display property

We are working on our new website and we stumbled upon yet another cross-browser inconsistency - the inline-block CSS display property. Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari displayed it just fine - but can you guess which browser made a mess of it?

How to attain cross-browser font size consistency

Being the conscientious web designer or developer that you are (you must be or you wouldn't have found this article!) you like to create accessible websites that offer the user resizable text. The only problem is that you get inconsistencies when you use ems or percentages to set your font sizes, thus affecting your cross-browser appearance.

Joomla 1.5 Content Image Margin Problem

The default image margin in Joomla has never been particularly satisfying. In Joomla 1.0 the mosimage plugin surrounded each image with a margin equal on both sides using the hspace attribute. This way it didn't matter whether the image was aligned left or right because it had the same amount of margin deposited around it regardless. Not liking this concept, we adapted the mosimage plugin so that it "intelligently" used one-sided margins to that the page edges looked tidier; adding only right margin for images left aligned and vice vera. Then Joomla 1.5 came along and we had to go back to the drawing board.

How to add automatically www to your URL

Current thought has advanced away from using multiple domain names for a website, but you may still fall foul of this problem unknowingly.

e-Commerce Websites and How to Lose Customers

There are many television programs devoted to how to improve your business, ranging from how to dress your shop to how to manage your staff. Unfortunately far too many entrepeneurs or companies don't extend the same thought to their e-commerce websites.