Encryption and Security with SSL.
Share When it comes to accepting online payments and other sensitive information over the web, normal HTTP just doesn’t cut it. It’s an insecure method of communication where everything is sent over the wire in cleartext – it’s completely trivial for anyone in a network administrator position at a business or ISP to gain access [...]
Read moreHow the Web Works
Share Many people think the Internet and the web are the same thing. In fact, the Internet is simply a global network of computers – the web runs on top of the Internet, and makes it useful for us. So how does the web work? The Invention of the Web. The web was invented by [...]
Read moreHow to Run Ads Without Driving Visitors Crazy.
Share As you travel around the web, you’ll notice that most sites now have ads in some form or another. Some of them are subtle, but some of them just aren’t – in fact, after a while, the ads at some sites can annoy you enough that you’ll either block them out entirely or leave [...]
Read morePicking a Colour Scheme
Share Before you can consider the finer points of your design, you need to make the big decisions. Few of these decisions are more important than what colour scheme your website is going to use. If you choose the wrong one, your site will be, in the worst cases, completely unreadable. Pay Attention to Contrast. [...]
Read moreRSS: Really Simple Syndication
Share More websites are starting to offer RSS feeds, and more users are making use of RSS readers instead of visiting every website they want to read individually. But what is RSS, why is it getting popular, and – most importantly –what can it do for you? Read on. What is RSS? RSS stands for [...]
Read morePhotoshop: a Graphic Designer’s Dream
Share When it comes to web design – in fact, any kind of computerised graphic design – Photoshop has been the standard for years, and remains the market leader. But just what is so great about it? Photoshop’s Features. Photoshop was originally designed for print graphic designers, and it shows: the selection of features available [...]
Read moreGoogle Talk
Share I just heard about the new Google Talk service from Google which allows you to talk over your computer to friends/family/clients. I heard an example Chris Pirillo demonstrated on his podcast and I couldn’t believe the quality of the sound. Google states “Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were [...]
Read moreFlash MP3 player for your site
Share I found a great flash mp3 player that anyone can easily install on their site. It works with php, asp and coldfusion driven sites. I believe it only plays mp3′s but it does it pretty fast and streams them very nicely. I thought of some very good uses for this player other then just [...]
Read moreBack in Norway
Share I just got back to Norway last week and have been busy enjoying the sun here. It is amazingly warm now and so it’s hard to stay inside and work. I have been able to get a little bit done. I’m working on two sites at the moment, doing a bit of redesign on [...]
Read moreConvert Excel Spreadsheets to MySQL
Share I accidently stumbled upon iDevX2My v1.0 from iDevDirect.com which allows you to convert excel spreadsheets to MySQL. If you use spreadsheets or text file databases for any reason and want to import that information into a MySQL database then you should check out this software. Once your information is in a MySQL database you [...]
Read moreWebmerge 2.4 Database to Static HTML site
Share I’ve recently found some new software that everyone should know about. Well everyone who wants to create a static html site that is generated from a database. And I mean from any database, excel, pipe delimited, comma delimited or other. If you haven’t checked out FourthWorld‘s WebMerge software then I suggest you do. It [...]
Read moreWordPress RSS feed fix
Share WordPress 1.5.1 has a problem with displaying RSS feeds and I was notified of the problem and a quick fix by a reader of 63days. Thanks Bob for the heads up! Anyway, you can fix it by changing a few lines in the wp-blog-header.php file or you can download the new updated file direct [...]
Read moreBlog Software
Share I’ve had the joy of installing WordPress 1.5 today on my friend’s site. She was basically getting tired of blogger and the design so we decided to move her over to WordPress and apply a new template from Shawn Grimes. I am very impressed with WordPress’s features. It did everything we wanted it to. [...]
Read moreHi, Welcome to Jeff Hendrickson Design
Share Welcome to Jeff Hendrickson Design. I’m currently working on the design of the site and making sure everything is in the right place. I am on vacation so will be updating when I can.
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