Monday, November 30, 2009

Search and Replace in MySQL

I just went through a domain transfer for one of our websites, and the links in the posts are all pointing to OldSite.com rather than the NewSite.com. But it's an easy fix, as long as you got Google.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

How To Completely Backup your GoDaddy Website Files

Godaddy mainly offers domain names for sale, but they are also selling hosting plans including shared hosting, VPS and dedicated server. For those who are using shared linux hosting on Godaddy, it can be a pain to backup all of your website's files because they do not have an option for that purpose. This has been my problem too when we needed to transfer from Godaddy shared hosting to VPS - the files needed to be backed-up.

Here are two ways you can backup your Godaddy website files:

Thursday, November 19, 2009

What Happens to Your Online Accounts When You Die

You're a web designer, you have 22 Gmail accounts, 13 Yahoo Messenger accounts, 50,000 MySpace contacts and 26,000 Facebook friends. You just finished Tweeting about your ham and egg breakfast, you choked from your orange juice that contained your cat's favorite yarn ball - you die. What would ever happen to your online accounts now? Will your accounts be automatically deleted, or will your Facebook account automatically send an update that "Mr. Online Guy has just died". Luckily, people from MakeUseOf were actually thinking about it and made a research which concludes:

Monday, November 16, 2009

Ultimate Guide to Grid-Based Web Design

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Web design trends now point to one aspect of using CSS for the basic website wireframe - Grid-based layouts. I haven't actually used this into my projects lately, but I'm really planning to jump into the bandwagon. I don't wanna be left out! I stumbled upon this site called 960 Grid System which offers a CSS generator for your grid layout, as well as examples of websites that use the grid-based system. Since then I've tried to go deeper into knowing how grid layouts work.

5 Amazing Online Image Editors For Designers

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About 10 years ago, I used to crop my images using MS Paint because either image editing software were expensive or my slow computer cannot compliment the requirements of Adobe Photoshop 1. But nowadays online image editors are now available, and they are far more better than p..p..Paint. Here are 5 online image editors that designers should bookmark.