And you don’t need to make the change. Christina explains the change: So why the change? Adding the try and catch to the snippet removes the possibility that your visitor sees a JavaScript message that doesn’t apply to her. It’s a fairly rare occurrence because messages like these (frequently in the form of an alert box) can only appear if JavaScript messaging has been enabled on the browser. Most browsers have JavaScript messaging turned off by default, but sometimes people unintentionally turn it on. For those visitors who have enabled messaging, the try and catch will have the effect of…

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A few years ago, I faced a major problem with uploading and downloading files via FTP. My internet connection blocked a lot of ports, FTP among them and switching ISPs wasn’t an option. It was an extremely frustrating situation, until I stumbled upon net2ftp. net2ftp is a web based FTP client with features that rival several desktop based FTP clients. Navigate the FTP server Upload files Download files individually or via ZIP files Zip/Unzip files Install software Copy, move and delete Copy or move to a 2nd FTP server Rename and chmod View code with syntax highlighting Plain text editor…

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Jennifer of JenSense.com has written a detailed article explaining some of the common mistakes that website owners commit when integrating Google Adsense in their sites. She’s covered the following problems: Clicking on your own ads Creative attractions around your ads Asking users to click on your ads Using code to modify the size of the ads Drop down navigation covering your ads? Pre-filling the search box Adsense for Search Not putting a privacy policy. Check out the privacy policy at Techtites. Buying traffic for your site Mentioning your Google Adsense stats, payments etc. Using illegal content and content that goes…

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I’ve been using Windows Live Writer to write posts for several months now. This has primarily been for my blog posts at Weblog Tools Collection. I decided to start using WLW for Techtites and AjayDSouza.com. I was able to add both the blogs properly and made my first blog post. Uploaded the post to my website and noticed gibberish. On closer observation, I realized that the < and > were stripped out completely. As a result, code like <p><a href=”http://techtites.com/”>Techtites</a></p> became pa href=”http://techtites.com/”Techtites/a/p. I manually had to edit the post to correct this post. I noticed the problem at both…

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When writing HTML code, it is easy to make mistakes. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Tidy won’t generate a cleaned up version when there are problems that it can’t be sure of how to handle. These are logged as “errors” rather than “warnings”. GuiTidy is a simple software that uses Tidy to generate optimized code via a…

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I’m a big fan of tiny utilities that are designed for one purpose to do what they promise to do without eating up a tonne of your bandwidth to download and use. Color Archiver is one such utility. Developed by Priya Ranjan, Color Archiver allows you to pick and save colors and thereby create a color palette. You can then quickly browse and select these colors for your future usage. Color Archiver becomes a perfect tool when you are designing your website and / or working with CSS files. It also includes a search feature to help you find colors…

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If you are into designing 3D models of buildings, trucks, cars or well, just about anything then Google SketchUp is one tool that gets the job done. SketchUp 7 was released today with the following changes: New class of “smart” objects called Dynamic Components, which are simpler to work with for new modelers Now “sign” your models SketchUp Pro users now use LayOut 2, which is faster, more reliable and includes vector rendering, improved text handling and more Read more of what’s new with SketchUp 7. Download Google SketchUp 7 Via: Google Blog

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 SP1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. These service packs offer customers improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 delivers: Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usability and performance, email integration with work item tracking and…

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Mark announced the new WordPress plugin competition. The past plugin competitions have been highly successful which have helped benefit the WordPress community with excellent offerings. I’m sure this years will be the same if not better. The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a very effective thing for a site / blog these days. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML ever did. The speed of your site also depends on your CSS, the complex the code, the slower is the site. Using repeated tagsTo make your site without loosing any CSS juice, you will need to optimize your CSS, make it simple and clean. margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; This is…

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