Earlier this week, we noticed that emails sent to @newcircleconsulting.com and a few other domains were either delayed or not being delivered. All these domains are hosted on the same Media Temple DV server. After a few chat sessions with the helpful Media Temple reps, we were able to found and solve the issue. Step […]
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Email delayed or not delivered
Monday, March 10th, 2014Add HTML Page (the iFrame approach) to a Facebook Page – April 2011
Sunday, April 17th, 2011Facebook has made so many changes lately – one of them being the deprecation of FBML page. Just a few weeks back I was able to add a FBML page but yesterday I had to spent a couple of hours to figure out an alternative to add a simple HTML page for our newly launched […]
Add Slideshow to Your Website
Friday, April 16th, 2010Slideshows are fun. You can use that to share event photos, or you can use that to rotate through a list of your portfolio items without people have to click around or scroll to read all. There are many ways to get this done. We will look at two easy-to-use options in this article. NextGen […]
CSS Drop Shadows
Wednesday, 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 […]
CSS for a Calendar-Like Date Stamp
Friday, May 23rd, 2008The date stamp you see here on the page can be made with following code: .post-date { background: url(images/date_icon_blue.jpg) no-repeat; float: left; height: 40px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 37px; } .post-day { color: #434B4D; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 37px; } .post-month […]
Retrieve a Portion of Long Text
Monday, December 31st, 2007Often, I need to get the first few sentances of a long article or post to display as summary. Things to consider include not cutting off any partial words; add … if there is more; make sure html tags are stripped off otherwise we might bury an openning tag in the summary and that will screw up the […]