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- 1. Tip: Make sure your new IPs are clean
A cautionary tale for anyone running their own web server – something I’d never considered previously.
We’ve all been there – you’re setting up your web server, and request a bunch of IP addresses from your hosting provider. You then assign these IPs to your various web sites, and off you go…
But how many of you actually check the history of these IP addresses?
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- 2. CSS tip for centered site designs
A quick tip for when you’re designing a site with centered content.
If the content doesn’t reach to the bottom of the window, there’s no vertical scroll bar; if you then navigate to a longer page, you’ll see the content jump about 10px to the left as it’s centered in a slightly narrower window. Sometimes, you’ll even see this jump half-way through rendering a longer page.
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- 3. Serving web fonts from IIS
I’ve just started playing with web fonts for a site redesign. I came across the following gotcha (thanks, Firebug, for alerting me to it!).
If you are running IIS 6 or higher on your web server, some of the fonts will be disabled by default.
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- 4. Stop mail clients auto-linking text as URLs
This is just a quickie – a reminder for my own reference, but could also be useful to others.
I’m building a shop, and the email confirmations include the line:
Your credit card statement will show a payment to "MYDOMAIN.COM".
Which is fine, except that many mail clients (e.g. Apple Mail) will take MYDOMAIN.COM and link it as a URL – which I don’t want.
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- 5. Handling initial display states for jQuery-enhanced pages
When building a jQuery-enhanced site (or using any other JavaScript library, for that matter) I find one of the tasks I use jQuery for is to set the initial display states of various elements on the page.
For instance, you may have some elements that should only be displayed if JavaScript is enabled; and some which should be hidden. But what do you do to avoid the flash of unwanted content which may appear before various libraries load? Here’s my solution…
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