cleanbuttons.com – Create clean buttons for free! Clean Buttons have 3 distinct types Primary Buttons move things forward. Like Start, Save, Buy, Add to Cart, Download, etc. The color of this button should draw the eye and reward clicking. Secondary Buttons either cancel the current action or are added extras. Like a cancel button or settings button. … Read more
The Problem: If your webhost uses litespeed to speed up your websites, an unintended side effect is it caches MySQL SELECT queries. In my experience it only cached them for 45-60 seconds, but a one minute delay after you add data (like a shopping cart) is not good! The Test: First of all run … Read more
.htaccess is your friend Using .htaccess to block directory listings, specify a home page and do custom error handling are all explained below. If you’d like some background on .htaccess or see examples of the rewrite rule: Overview of .htaccess Rewrite Rule with examples and cheat sheet Block Directory Listing Decent web hosts have this … Read more
What is .htaccess? .htaccess is a file in the root folder of your www (or publichtml) folder on your web server. It’s a configuration file for your web server (usually Apache) with information on redirects and some security settings. That’s a weird file name? Yep. It is not htaccess.txt, it is simply .htaccess It … Read more
Hints for using .htaccess to redirect file, folders and queries If you’d like some background on .htaccess read this first: Overview of .htaccess OK, let’s dive in… Ensure once (and only once) you have this in your .htaccess file at the top: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / Simple URL Redirect Simple redirect from one url (file) to … Read more