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Improving the Default Directory View
You’ve all seen a page like this:
That’s when you are viewing a directory on a server (or locally), that doesn’t have an “index” page to show you, but does have permissions set to allow you to see the directories …
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Fade Out Bottom (revisited)
The first post that was ever popular on CSS-Tricks was my tutorial on fading out the bottom of a website. Reader Pascal Moret wrote in with some suggestions for fixing it up for IE 6. …
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IE 6 Blocker Script
Fed up with supporting IE 6? Ready to just cut it off? I don’t blame you. I generally feel that most problems people have with IE 6 are pretty easy to work around with practice, but that is not always …
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Weird File Requests and Easing Server Stress with .htaccess
I got an email from Media Temple (my hosting provider for CSS-Tricks) telling me that I was going to exceed my “GPU” limit for the month. Wha? Turns out a GPU is a “Grid Performance Unit” and is a Media …
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Launch: Status
Today is the unveiling day of a new web application I’ve been working on the past few months. I am pleased to announce: Status. I worked on it with my friend Richard of Shiftedfrequency.
What is Status?Status …
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Automatically back up your entire web server files and databases to Amazon S3
Christina Warren has a comprehensive and excellent tutorial on creating a Ruby script to back up your entire web server, including databases, and upload them directly to …
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Date Badges and Comment Bubbles for Your Blog
One of the things you run into when your blog becomes bigger, is that you need to cram more info into less space, to make it possible to display all the information you want to show. One of the things …
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Screencast Archives Updated!
It was a long and grueling process, but I finally finished updating the entire video archive. Here are the improvements:
- Videos play on the web in Flash. From time to time I would get a note from someone either saying
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New Poll: How Do You Back Up Your Websites?
What if you hosting provider calls you one day and tells you they had a catastrophic fire at their facility and every bit of data on their (your!) servers is gone!
It’s highly unlikely, of course, and it’s more likely …
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Google Docs: Forms
This isn’t exactly breaking news, but I only just heard about it so I thought I’d share. The free service Google Docs allows you to build web forms from within it. It has a pretty limited feature …
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