mail() fail I was recently called upon to troubleshoot the mail script powering a website’s contact form, which for some reason unbeknownst to anyone was failing silently. It should’ve been an easy fix, but the more I dug into it, the more confused I became, and resorted to dumping variables to see if I could…
During the course of my career, I’ve had to deal with some quite bizarre things jumping out at me from the source of pages. One developer I know, from a well-respected firm (to spare your blushes I won’t link to it, Kev) is in the habit of using <div id=”mchammer”> “because it’s a wrapper”) but…
Like many IT professionals, I’m still heavily involved in deploying and supporting Windows XP. While most of the compatibility and performance problems with Vista have been addressed in SP1, there is still a clear case for a lot of businesses to run XP for a variety of reasons, mainly revolving around compatibility with third-party applications.…
So, here endeth my hacking of Wordpress. For now.
With any luck I should have news of Magellan Sitemap here shortly. Meanwhile I’ll finally be fixing the layout and putting together the final (rev. umpteen) graphics. Some content would probably help too…
Not to worry, I’ll have it all sorted but since I can’t seem to get Firefox to work in the office any design and layout stuff will have to be done at home. I’m working on a layout scheme based on the static one but allowing the columns to adjust to the user’s font size…
Started converting proportions to relative measurements; text can now be resized via browser menus. Code needs cleaning up and converting to PHP templates. Started posting final images; header & dropshadows use png alpha transparency so I’ll have to write a browser sniffer to serve them to IE using the AlphaImageLoader filter.