Around two months ago I was testing an email for a client that consisted of several images. As standard practice I sent out test emails to Outlook, Gmail (Google Mail), and Hotmail to see if these would break in the various email clients. I previewed the email in Outlook and Hotmail without any problems, when [...]
Coding HTML emails for Gmail (Google Mail)
August 13th, 2010
James
Edit the WordPress RSS Feed
June 20th, 2010
Sam
If you wish to add extra information to the <item> tag in your WordPress RSS feed, simply add this to your themes functions.php file: function rssExtraInfo() { echo ‘<extra-info>Here is some extra info</extra-info>’; } add_action(‘rss2_item’, ‘rssExtraInfo’); We often take the RSS feed from a clients blog and use it to add additional content to their [...]
Integrating Sage Pay with ColdFusion
June 11th, 2010
Sam
While integrating Sage Pay for one of our clients using the Form Integration process, we soon found that Sage Pay provided some great code examples for a couple of programming languages (PHP & ASP.NET), but nothing for ColdFusion (you will need to be logged into Sage Pay to view the code samples). So, here are [...]
‘ERROR: Invalid date specified’ for Windows forfile command
June 10th, 2010
Sam
I was looking at putting a script together that periodically deletes files from a directory which are older than a given time, e.g. 10 days. I found the forfile command on the Microsoft TechNet site, which looked like it would do the trick. The page has several examples for passing a date parameter, but every [...]
Redirect Non-WWW to WWW URLs – Search Engines can see two sites
April 15th, 2010
Burtwald
In this case it was Yahoo, but it can happen on other search engines. Yahoo had a site cached in their search results as it should linking to the http://www.domain…. version. All was well and the site was at the top on the first page. Within a short space of time the links had changed [...]