Category: Computers & Co.

  • Highlighting admin comments in WordPress

    Many WordPress users wish to visually highlight their own responses between the comments on a post, so that you recognize at the first glance which comments come from the site operator and which ones from normal visitors. So do I. A Google search revealed that it is most often being recommended to simply compare the…

  • Embedding Google Maps XHTML conform

    I’m quite glad I can write this post, for it allows me to parenthetically intersperse the news that I did not deem worthy of an own post: I have spent the last three days making this site XHTML valid. First I had started with the Transitional version, because otherwise several things which I wanted to…

  • Automatic updates in WordPress

    With the release of WordPress 2.7 on 11th December, I was facing a problem: Manual plugin updates don’t seem to be provided for anymore. To date, I had always downloaded my plugins using the download link in the backend and then moved them to my server via FTP, because the automatic update had never worked for me…

  • PageRank 1!

    While I was scribblig my two posts yesterday, my eye suddenly got caught by the status bar of my Firefox. That is where the addon “Google PageRank Status“ is located, which shows you the current Google PageRank of the sites you are surfing to. In short, the PageRank is a value that indicates the popularity…

  • ä�ö�ü�ß – Those damned special characters!

    Who doesn’t know the annoying problem with special characters being displayed wrongly (or not at all) on websites… In my case today, it was a Windows computer that wouldn’t display some special characters on various sites, although it worked on other computers with identical browsers. As often before, the solution seems so simple to me…

  • Resizing images in Flash

    Lately, I was working on a website which should have a neat Flash menu with funny jumping graphics. Now, they should be real bitmaps, not vectors. So when I wanted to let my images jump, whereby they should also change in size a little, I encountered a problem: The images only looked well at a…