Feb 6, 2010 Web Design, Web Design Tutorials, Work
For web designers, its always a constant struggle to get those flash, youtube, or vimeo videos tuck under divs where you need them. They somehow always behave like their z-index is close to infinity.
By default Flash content in a web page will appear on top of other elements on the page, including floating menus, inline popups etc. This can be pretty annoying if you have a flyout menu on your page and it goes behind the Flash video and this post shows how simple it is to fix. This works in all browsers inclding IE6+ Read More..
Jan 17, 2010 Work, web development
I’m starting to develop sites with the Interspire Shopping Cart system, which I think is totally way better than Prestashop. I suggest people who want a better system than Prestashop to checkout the Interspire Shopping Cart, its worth every penny.
So I’m setting it up for our company in a VPS hosting, and it requires the PHP installation to be compiled with MCRYPT package. Specifically, this is needed for the manual credit card processing module. And it seems that the Godaddy VPS support is NOT willing to support (ironic) so I had to deal with the challenge myself. I found this instructions from NotesBit.com on how to recompile PHP with MCRYPT support. Here are the steps I followed – it was actually easier than I thought: Read More..
Dec 24, 2009 Blogging, Extras
I just want to shout out an early Merry Christmas greeting to everyone! Thanks Bro for giving me and my family lots and lots of blessings! Happy birthday to you, Bro!
Also an advanced Happy New Year to everyone!
Dec 14, 2009 Uncategorized
Twitter dudes and dudets, here’s you’re chance to win any of these prizes: a Modu phone, 10 Globe Tattoo and 20 Php500 prepaid call cards. Thanks to YugaTech and Globe! The mechanics are very simple:
1) Follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe on Twitter.
2) Post a tweet “Just entered to win a Modu Phone. Quick! Go follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe and retweet: http://bit.ly/6e2q7O #thanks2yugatech”
The winners will be chosen randomly. Or if you are a blogger like me, increase your chance to win a prize by blogging about the contest! For this you could grab your hands on another Modu phone, 10 Globe Tattoo and 10 prepaid load cards worth Php500 each. Mechanics are:
1) Blog about the “YugaTech Great Gadget Giveaway”. Include the photo I posted here and link to this contest page.
2) Don’t forget to include in your post the mechanics for the Twitter contest above.
3) Leave a comment here with the URL of your entry.
And if you don’t have a twitter account or a blog, you can still win one of five Php500 worth of prepaid load cards from Globe. Simply visit this post from YugaTech and:
1) Leave a comment on this contest page with the answer to this question — “If you’re stuck in an island with a phone and only have one call left, who would you call and why?“.
That’s a total of 62 lucky winners this week alone. You can join in any of the 3 separate giveaways above but you can only win once for this round. If you win twice or on all 3, you get the bigger prize. So what are you waiting for? Its so easy enough you just might win a prize for Christmas!
Dec 7, 2009 Web Design Resources, Wordpress
If you’re a Worpress Theme addict and you’ve not yet visited this post, I suggest you do because these are some of the best Premium-like Wordpress Themes available. I’ve gone through the list, and 90% of it I really like. Especially the themes Magiting, Matiyaga, Mainam and Marangal from Padd Solutions (a fellow Pinoy web development firm). I’ve already bookmarked it, and I think you should too. Here are some of the Wordpress themes I plan to use in my future projects: Read More..
Dec 7, 2009 Blogging, Extras, Internet
I just learned the news that Friendster recently had a facelift. It is actually refreshing to see a hippier, more attractive Friendster Layout and Design. When Facebook was out, I wasn’t totally hooked to it instantly and still checked my Friendster profile once in a while. But when Restaurant City arrived, I forgot all about my Friendster account. Read More..
Nov 30, 2009 web development
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.
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Nov 27, 2009 Blogging, Extras
Christmas is just around the corner. Everyone’s saving up for that special gift to their loved ones. And its just natural for people to think of the gifts they would like to receive for Christmas. After all, its the time of giving! With that , let me share with your my wishlist for this year’s Christmas (mostly geeky stuff). Read More..
Nov 26, 2009 web development
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: Read More..
Nov 19, 2009 Internet
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:
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Nov 17, 2009 Web Design Tutorials
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. Read More..
Nov 17, 2009 Web Design Resources
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. Read More..
Oct 28, 2009 Prestashop, web development
I just finished adding the Paypal payment option for our e-commerce site that uses Prestashop as the shopping cart application. I’m quite getting more comfortable configuring and editing the source code of Prestashop, but along with those modifications is the failure of the default Paypal payment module that came with the Prestashop code package to fail. Read More..
Oct 21, 2009 Blogging
Its been a very busy month for me – we’re doing some major stuff with my bosses’ websites so I had to crunch my time and lay-off blogging for a bit. And lately, I’ve been inspired to blog again because of the recent blogging events me & my wife just attended. Read More..
Oct 13, 2009 Internet
Temporary email services are those that allow you to create temporary emails you can use for signing up to websites that might fill your personal emails with loads and loads of spam. Here are seven of the best temporary email services that you can use: Read More..
Oct 8, 2009 Games
Another addicting game on Facebook is Mafia Wars – about half of my contacts in facebook plays mafia wars! And if you’re also a mafia war addict like them, you’ll search the web to find more mafia wars cheats tips or tricks that can help you accomplish your tasks (and waste more valuable productive time, lol!) Here are some tips for Mafia Wars Read More..
Oct 7, 2009 Games
I lot of my friends at Facebook are now playing Cafe World – a new game that is similar with Restaurant City. I am quite hesitant to try it out because I might get hooked up to it like what I’ve been to Restaurant City. Read More..
Sep 1, 2009 Blogging, Wordpress
I’ve been using the blogging platform, Wordpress, as a CMS for the company I’m working with right now because I find that Wordpress is THE best CMS out there. It is very easy to install, simple yet powerful out of the box, extensible with the use of plugins, a gazillion resources online to do anything with the platform, and it takes me less time developing an effective theme and integrating it with the e-commerce software, Prestashop.
I stumbled into Dave’s post about 10 plugins you can install on Wordpress to make it a better CMS. Here is the list from his entry: Read More..
Aug 31, 2009 Computer Tips, Windows 7
Its quite evident that the persons who’ve tried Vista and were disappointed by its shortcomings, and Microsoft answered their prayers with Windows 7. It is basically a better Vista; faster, snappier, and more productive, should I say. But a lot of consumers are still using older Intel Dual Core machines (or even P4’s) with only 1GB of RAM and just an on-board graphics processor, so they need to squeeze Windows 7 for performance rather than just all eye-candy.
This is a helpful post for everyone who’s sporting Windows 7 on their machines but wants to get more mojo from their grumpy hardware. There are other “ultimate guides” out there that also tackle the same topic, but this guide is basically to pimp up and condition your Windows 7 box for optimum performance. It is a short guide, but I’m tackling only the essentials – if you’re a more of a tweaky guy, you can check out the link below the post for the ultimate guide.
So here are my tips on how to make Windows 7 run faster: Read More..
Aug 23, 2009 Work
I’ve been in the Internet industry for almost 4 years now. I’ve worked as a C & PHP programmer, a web designer, flash animator, web master, SEO guy, and occasionally as a card invitation maker. But the thing I love the most is my current work, which is basically a web developer for a foreign country. They have given me the opportunity to do the things I enjoy doing! It’s almost I’m not working – I love my work! Read More..
