CSS Resets – Friend or Foe
I recently found this article which summarizes my own feelings on using CSS resets in your stylesheets. The following is probably pure jibberish to those of you who aren’t designers. (I’m just dreaming/wishing/hoping my own quality control department reads this one.)
One of the principles I took away from the Web Standards community was the concept that pixel perfect precision across the various rendering engines was impractical and a remnant of the table-based layouts of yesteryear. With CSS and progressive enhancement, it was okay that things might look a little different from one browser to the next because of variations in what they supported.
Web hosts iPower, PowWeb, StartLogic all owned by Endurance International Group
I am in the process of moving all of my hosting clients off of iPowerWeb (iPower) as each account comes up for renewal. It’s an opportunity to also upgrade the platform they’re on as it has been a few years for a lot of these websites.
Why? If you’ve ever dealt with iPower as a multiple-site manager, you know. They were bought or merged with Endurance International Group in MA about a year ago? (I can’t remember, doesn’t matter).
In the process they had to manually edit things like server paths in php configure files without knowledge of the site owner or administrator. They wound up killing an osCommerce installation for one of my clients. I can only imagine how many others were lost by their inexperienced developers who were charged with editing thousands of files. The task itself is unimaginable to me, and of course they screwed up a few.
Anyway, that’s just a single example. I’m moving these sites for many more reasons, the most important one being cost. Companies like IXWebhosting offer unlimited domains (8 unique IP’s – unlimited shared IP’s) for the price of a single domian on most hosts. Check out IX here. Below is a list of known web hosts also owned by Endurance International Group. Do yourself a favor and consider someone else to host your site(s).
AccountSupport
BizLand
BlueDomino
Dot5 (Dot5 Hosting)
DomainHost
eHost
EntryHost
FatCow
FreeYellow
HostCentric
HostYourSite
HyperMart
ImOutDoors
iPowerWeb (iPower)
NetWorksHosting
PowWeb
PureHost
ReadyHosting
Startlogic
USAnetHosting
VirtualAve
Xeran
Who do you host with? Who do you recommend?
Enzology-the story of Split Enz radio series
“Podcast” History of Split Enz. In ten parts!!
Enzology is Radio New Zealand National’s documentary covering the history of New Zealand’s most iconic band – Split Enz. Five years in the making, this ten-part series covers the history of the band from their beginnings in Auckland as an acoustic ensemble in 1972, to their final concerts as an Australia-based, internationally acclaimed pop band in 1984.
Split Enz True Colours
The ultimate Man List – 100 things every man should know
My grandfather was a collector of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines in the 1950′s and 1960′s so I had a lot of fun checking out the list. How many of these skills do you know?
Video – Uninstalling Ubuntu from a dual boot windows vista machine
I especially like the way he turns his computer on and off. Now that’s respect!
