I guess it’s time for an update. I have battled phpBB3 to make a theme for it for the MX-5 / Miata Club of Norway. You can check it out over at MX5-Miata.no, in Norwegian. I am still doing some adjustments but it’s nearing finalization, luckily it wasn’t as hard to create a more graphical theme as I thought. But I kept most of the original layout, except the post info on the right side, always hated that about phpBB3.

I am planning some changes to this page, which is why updates are a bit slow

The tool I’m speaking of is SyntaxHighlighter. This must be one of the greatest tools I’ve seen in a long time, it’s easy to use, well designed and useful. As most people will know including code in your blog/webpage can be a challenge because of all the different characters that disturb original code or get interpreted wrongly by the content publishing system. This tool displays it all in a nice code view and allows the user to click “View source” to get clean code without line breaks.Example below.

body{
background-color: #FFF;
}
a{
color: #999;
}

I love it. You must get it, go to Alex Gorbatchev’s site and download.

The program IETester has turned into a quite usable product. Highly recommended for testing purposes as you can test in IE6 and below, as well as IE7 and IE8 in the same program. Really valuable for anyone that needs to test pages for the mainstream visitors, which are most of us.

Go to download page of IETester

I have just got a new PC at work, so I thought I’d update on the luck of actually solving a problem without spending hours to find out what’s wrong. As you may or may not know, there seems to be a common problem that Acers’ security solution makes Adobe Dreamweaver crash on startup. So after installing my Dreamweaver CS4 which I have had a lot of pains with on the previous PC it was no shock that something was wrong. Luckily I stumbled quickly over the solution, a patch for the Acer program, and that worked. Get it at Egistec.

The blog has been a bit quiet lately, and obviously I’ll only update when I have something useful to put here. The plan is to update soon with the quickest and most painless way to make your site IE6 compatible, especially if you implement your pages using floats. What’s delaying it is the fact that I gave a total toss about IE6 when I made this page, so I have to replace some PNG’s with GIF’s so that it isn’t slowed down by the png fixes you need for IE6. So after I’ve fixed my page, which is the exception of the rule, I’ll post the solution.

Update: The link I previously posted for the fix doesn’t work for me, but I found a new link for the fix.

When you work with web development you’ll need to have a lot of debugging tools, code verification tools and other things, kind of like programming, just less advanced. You may also want to have tools that let you change CSS on the fly, check widths and sizes and so on. This is a list of what I use, I’ll keep this post updated with all tools I use, or find useful at times. Read on…

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When I started working in the company I currently work for, they used Macromedia Fireworks for setting up webpage designs. I thought it looked like a hassle, and had always used Adobe Photoshop for it. As I learned more and more of Fireworks, there was no way back to Photoshop. Photoshop has been for photos after this.

Fireworks (obviously Adobe Fireworks now) is quite simply a breeze to work with. Currently in version CS4 I thought I’d share the reasons as to why it’s so simple to set up something to work with, and change it later. Maybe someone still using Photoshop for setting up designs will see the light.

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