For our latest project, we integrate software written by other developers (brrr)... A lot of character and encoding issues arose, but the combination of practices on this interesting page magically solved them all... The UTF-8 database, showed normal characters, but the output in html was a disaster.
It also mentions some good practices and tips. In the future, PHP 6 should solve all encoding problems automatically...
08-04-2010
Reset CSS
A nice starter when creating XHTML + CSS from design documents can be found at: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/.
This makes sure your basic html looks the same in all browsers. Very convenient to overcome Internet Explorer problems...
This makes sure your basic html looks the same in all browsers. Very convenient to overcome Internet Explorer problems...
05-04-2010
Embedding Google Calendar
When looking for an easy-to-use calendar to show availabilities of a campspot, we bumped into Google Calendar (again :)).
With the google account our customer already uses for Google Analytics, they can create a calendar. This calendar can easily be embedded in any website, and customized to the specific needs (e.g. set backgroundcolor and start with month-view).
One other nice feature: when you make the calendar public, your calendar is to be found in Google, adding extra visibility on yet another channel.
With the google account our customer already uses for Google Analytics, they can create a calendar. This calendar can easily be embedded in any website, and customized to the specific needs (e.g. set backgroundcolor and start with month-view).
One other nice feature: when you make the calendar public, your calendar is to be found in Google, adding extra visibility on yet another channel.
01-04-2010
Intuit Announces Acquisition of CMS Made Simple
Blogpost on CMSMS website... Don't know yet if this is good, or bad news... Anyway, I decided to download the last version of CMSMS and store it in a very safe location...
Offcourse, it's April 1st today :)
Offcourse, it's April 1st today :)
25-03-2010
Social Marketing
Facebook, Youtube, Blogspot, ... social marketing is free and easy.
Yeah Right... Spent the last 2 days on figuring out several stuff. Connecting Facebook and Blogspot, should be easy, but isn't. NetworkedBlogs came to the rescue.
Creating a Facebook page on your company, pretty straightforward, getting the blogposts in, and adding videos... Not that easy. Maximum upload size to Facebook for videos is 1MB... So decided to use youtube... Which has a nice feature btw: audio swap, you can add audio to your movie.. But it's fairly slow and I didn't manage to hear previews...
Anyway, this message is just to check if it gets promoted to the fanpage :D
Yeah Right... Spent the last 2 days on figuring out several stuff. Connecting Facebook and Blogspot, should be easy, but isn't. NetworkedBlogs came to the rescue.
Creating a Facebook page on your company, pretty straightforward, getting the blogposts in, and adding videos... Not that easy. Maximum upload size to Facebook for videos is 1MB... So decided to use youtube... Which has a nice feature btw: audio swap, you can add audio to your movie.. But it's fairly slow and I didn't manage to hear previews...
Anyway, this message is just to check if it gets promoted to the fanpage :D
24-03-2010
News & editor-rights in CMSMS
Note to myself: Make sure editors have the right to publish news in new CMS-installations...
Apparently, Editors (which is the default right we assign to CMS-users) do not have the ability to publish their news. They can write newsmessages, but an Admin or superuser needs to approve the news to publish on the front-end website. Somehow logical for large websites with lots of users, but useless for websites with 1-5 content editors...
Apparently, Editors (which is the default right we assign to CMS-users) do not have the ability to publish their news. They can write newsmessages, but an Admin or superuser needs to approve the news to publish on the front-end website. Somehow logical for large websites with lots of users, but useless for websites with 1-5 content editors...
23-03-2010
Networkedblogs: Integrating Blogspot in Facebook
To open up this blog to a larger audience, I was looking for a nice solution to integrate this feed into Facebook.
Facebook offers a way to integrate one blog-feed using Notes, but the messages are pulled into facebook, losing every link to the original blog.
Networked Blogs however is a nice Facebook app, that shows a short summary of the blogpost and adds an URL to the original blogpost. Exactly what I was looking for...
Facebook offers a way to integrate one blog-feed using Notes, but the messages are pulled into facebook, losing every link to the original blog.
Networked Blogs however is a nice Facebook app, that shows a short summary of the blogpost and adds an URL to the original blogpost. Exactly what I was looking for...
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