I was moving our GoSeeUS.cn website from one hosting to another and need to transfer the database over as well. Database export and import both went smoothly but the Chinese characters were all scrambled on the new hosting server. After some research I found that the old hosting used MySql 5.0 and had the encoding […]
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Converting MySQL Data from Latin1 to GB2312 (or other encoding)
October 28th, 2008Launch a “custom-built” website within 15 hours
October 14th, 2008We had a business idea of aggregating all musumes free days information and displayed in a calendar, can be filtered or searched on by city. Input information – free date, time, name and location of museum display information – filter by city, in an calendar, easy navigation Grabbing the domain name is the easy part […]
Joomla! 1.5 Installation Notes
October 10th, 2008After much debating (with myself), I decided to install Joomla!1.5 (instead of 1.0.15) for Diveheart new website. Joomla! 1.5 has been out for a while now. I liked the new UI but have been concerned with not enough extensions are on 1.5 yet. Checked on Joomla! site and made sure VirtueMart, Events Calendar etc. are […]
Website Grader
October 3rd, 2008Inspired by the Internet Marketing Kit by Hubspot, I spent last two days tuning newcircleconsulting.com, and moved up it’s grade at www.websitegrader.com from 81 to 90 within 48 hours. Woo hoo! (www.newcircleconsulting.com gets 88 only, 2 points lower than newcircleconsulting.com, not sure why these two are different.) Here is what I did: Reduced title tag to […]
CSS Drop Shadows
September 24th, 2008Per request from a client, we need to create some text with CSS based drop shadows that works across all major browsers. After some research and comparison, we implemented the technique by Scott Jehl. http://www.scottjehl.com/v7/index.php/process/html_text_drop_shadows The CSS is very simple … no filters and hacks. Yes this solution works beautifully across IE, FF on PC, as […]
robots.txt validator (checker)
July 16th, 2008I created a robots.txt but was not sure whether the syntax was correct or not. I searched and found this nice online tool that checks the validity of robots.txt file: http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml Very easy to use.