Earlier today I was tasked with finding and fixing broken images on a retailer’s website, where there were of course thousands of images to go through. Here’s what I did to see and fix all the broken images (and the links pointing to them)… In this...
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Clean Up Double Line Spacing Code View in Dreamweaver
When downloading files from your server to edit in code view in Dreamweaver you’ll sometimes be looking at code that is all double spaced. You can fix this by doing a find/replace right in Dreamweaver. With the page open, hit CTRL-F and enter \n\s*\n and type...
Facebook Page: Not Eligible To Create A Username Solution
This one is going out to all those searching the Facebook help pages that really offer no help. I couldn’t believe just how little help those pages and their comments/information were… especially with no Facebook representatives helping anyone!...
The CSS Pseudo-Element :empty and Google Maps
I use Feedly.com as my RSS reader and have a good amount of content coming in there that I browse each day or so. I certainly don’t remember each and everything I read, but even skimming the content and articles means that one day when I run into a work problem,...
WordPress: Advanced Custom Fields, Custom Post Types And The Dreaded Auto-Draft Title
This post today is not an in-depth look into using Advanced Custom Fields, or Custom Post Types, or CPT-UI. I just wanted to briefly explain the problem and then show the solution that has worked for me. The problem After setting up a new Custom Post Type (CPT) in...
PHP Snippet: Display If In Date Range
One of my client’s websites requires regular updates where a “Sale” graphic is shown to visitors between certain dates. Rather than manually updating the site at those specific dates (and having to be in front of the computer on those dates) I wrote...
Directory Print Or Export File Names from Directory: Copy As Path
I had to accomplish a task today of exporting hundreds of image file names located in a few directories on my computer. Basically the client wanted a spreadsheet of the all the file names I had created. No problem I thought as I had remembered doing this a long time...
Send Or Receive Money Easily With Interac
At times I have clients ask if they can pay me with their debit card. Well, yes, they can. And it’s really easy. You can send and receive money easily too. It’s called an e-Transfer and all you need is a bank account and the email address of who you want...
Open Source Ad Blocker And More: uBlock Origin
Recently after reading Smashing Magazine’s Web Development Reading List #118 and finding out that AdBlock Plus might not be operating completely independently, I took their advice and am now using uBlock Origin. It’s open source software (github here) by...
Windows: Screen Capture “Prt Scr” Current Window Shortcut
For many years I would hit the “Prt Scr” key on my keyboard and then paste the screen capture into Photoshop or whatever to play with. Even with multiple monitors the “Prt Scr” key captures everything displayed on all your monitors in one giant...
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