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Ride Aboard the Link Train

April 25, 2007 | Published in: Out of the Blue | Tags: 4

I saw this “link train” idea in my technorati incoming links, and I’m afraid I could resist doing it too. The idea is to build your number of “favourites” on Technorati and discover some new blogs in the process.

I’ve added some of my faves to the list, lets see where this goes.

Read more for the rules and to continue the train.

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Browser testing in Windows Vista - trouble with Internet Explorer

April 25, 2007 | Published in: Browsers & Hacks | Tags: , , , , , 9

Internet ExplorerAfter my recent ‘upgrade’ to Windows Vista I came across a little snag in regards to site testing; the Internet Explorer standalones I had come to love no longer functioned.

This became a very annoying issue for me, as I frequently require easy access to old Internet explorer versions for site testing/bug fixing. But at last I have found a solution; although its slightly more awkward than a nice standalone version of the browsers.

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Hooray, Comment spam stopper used on zeldman.com

April 19, 2007 | Published in: Out of the Blue | Tags: 1

The other day Mike Cherim informed me that usability legend Jeffrey Zeldman is using my wordpress comment spam stopper plugin on his site. Now I’ve seen it styled nicely and integrated into the comment form there. There you go, proof it must be good :)
Download it right now here.

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Secure & accessible contact form for Wordpress + multi-user version

April 15, 2007 | Published in: Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , , 183

Wordpress Contact formsThe ‘Secure and accessible contact form for wordpress’ has been a huge success (over 10,000 downloads!), and due to this I have decided to repost the plugin (and also its less known multi-user sister version) to further increase the popularity of this awesome plugin for the wordpress blogging platform.

The Secure & accessible contact form is designed to make contacting you from your website easy, accessible, and secure. It will definitely deter spam emails from arriving in your mail box!

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Wordpress Contact form update B20070407

April 11, 2007 | Published in: Out of the Blue | Tags: 0

From Mike C - I made several small modifications in the wp-gbcf_form.php to even further enhance security. I also modified the mail header to extract the character set from the blog settings instead of hard-coding it. It was hard-coded utf-8, and on most blogs will remain as such, but now that can be modified if the webmaster has selected another charset for their blog. The documentation file, wp-gbcf_help.php, was also updated.

You can download the new version here.