http://www.kilbot.com.au The Kilbot Factory provides web design, web development and web hosting. We specialise in clean, modern design and dynamic database driven content for e-Commerce and CMS web sites. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:06:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Kilbot Factory has just released a new site for Kinder Memories on DVD. The site features a custom Wordpress theme with a Flash Media Player for steaming videos and password managed areas for clients. http://www.kindermemories.com.au. http://www.kilbot.com.au/2008/07/05/kinder-memories-on-dvd/ There's been a bit of buzz about Google Apps lately, particularly in web hosting circles with Dreamhost founder Josh Jones recommending his clients use GMail for email rather than their own servers. The Kilbot Factory will be offering Google App integration for our clients in the near future, but anyone ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2008/06/20/import-and-archive-your-old-emails-with-gmail/ I had one of those 'gotcha' moments yesterday when testing a contact form I had made for a client. The issue (and fix) is painfully obvious once you see it, but it did leave me scratching my head for about an hour so I thought it was worth writing down. ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2008/05/03/using-the-image-input-type-to-post-a-form-in-ie/ Certainly. I am available for hire by the hour, by the day, by the week, by the month ... whatever you require. Some tasks you may consider hiring me for; Professional PSD to XHTML/CSS/JS work. HTML email templates, tested on all major email clients. SEO consulting and Google AdWords consulting. Website maintenance, from adding an ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2008/04/23/are-you-available-for-hire/ I like to give my hosting clients the ability to check their website statistics without having to log into cPanel. There is no native way to do this through WHM or cPanel so I have created a little Perl script to automatically make Webalizer stats public when a new account ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2008/04/20/public-webalizer-stats-for-cpanel-users/ Wordpress 2.5 was released a couple of weeks ago and I've just updated here at the Kilbot Factory. Wow. This is not a minor release, they have almost completely redone the look of the admin section, particularly the 'Write' pages. Most impressive for me is the upgrade to the rich text ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2008/04/12/wordpress-25/ A common source of problems when sending emails is port 25 blocking. By default most email clients (eg: Outlook, Thunderbird) will use port 25 to connect and communicate with the outgoing mail server. Some ISP's block port 25 connections to servers other than their own, in this way they can ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/07/18/receiving-mail-ok-but-i-have-problems-sending-mail/ Waterkeepers Australia came to us in desperate need of a website redesign. Their previous website was hard to update, hard to navigate and hard to read. So this is what we did; Stripped out the old table-based layout and started from scratch with a fresh, modern design. Installed Wordpress as a ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/07/17/waterkeepers-australia/ A nameserver maps your domain name to the server i.p. address of your host. Each domain name must have at least a primary and a secondary nameserver, if your site is hosted with The Kilbot Factory the nameservers required are: Primary: ns1.kilbot.com.au Secondary: ns2.kilbot.com.au If you need assistance adding nameservers to your domain ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/06/28/what-are-the-kilbot-factory-nameservers/ We have just released a new site for Gisborne Golf Club, a great golf course about 45 minutes drive north of Melbourne. The site uses Wordpress as a content management system for easy updating and features the high standards of coding and attention to detail that you would expect from ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/05/17/gisborne-golf-club/ Pressure Dynamics is the leading designer and manufacturer of hydraulic machines and systems in Australia, and thanks to the Kilbot Factory they have a great new website to show off their work. http://www.pressuredynamics.com.au http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/04/18/pressure-dynamics-2/ Web Development encompasses all the tasks required to bring a web site to the internet, whereas Web Design refers only to graphic design. A typical web development process at The Kilbot Factory would involve site planning, wireframe creation, web design, coding, search engine optimisation, and after release; site maintenance and ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/02/28/what-is-the-difference-between-web-development-and-web-design/ Australia has an internet penetration of 70.7% (14,663,622 users) according to Nielsen (via internetworldstats.com). This is slightly higher than North America (68.1%) but below Malta (78.1%). This is a measure of people who have access to the web... and probably not a true indication of how many people actually use ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2007/01/01/its-that-stats-time-of-year/ Add this to the .htaccess file if you are having troubles with php scripts timing out. php_value max_execution_time 120 http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/12/14/php_value-max_execution_time/ http://www.brookshire.com.au The Kilbot Factory has released a brand new site for Brooks Hire Service. The site uses a Content Management System for easy site updates and expansion, standards compliant XHTML and CSS, and quite a few keyword tweaks to get the best search ranking possible. http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/11/13/brooks-hire-service/ Top 500 sites in Australia as reported by Alexa, take it with a grain of salt but it is handy for SEO to get an indication of which search engines Australians are using. Google fills first and second places, which fits with data collected on my sites. Yahoo are next and ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/10/30/alexa-top-sites-in-australia/ IE can sometimes display a very confusing 3px gap (as described here). If the Holly Hack (height: 1%) won't work try: /* hide from MacIE \*/ * html #sidebar { margin-right: -3px; } * html #content { margin-left: 0; } /* end hide */ http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/09/25/ie-3px-bug/ While looking at a site the other day I noticed a PHPSESSID token appended to the URL, here's how to get rid of it... in the .htaccess file tell php to store the token in cookies, rather than pass the variable through the URL: ## add to .htaccess php_value session.use_only_cookies 1 php_value session.use_trans_sid ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/08/21/phpsessid/ Display Symbolic Description ´ &acute; acute accent & &amp; ampersand ¦ &brvbar; broken vertical bar • &bull; bullet ¸ &cedil; cedilla ¢ &cent; cent ˆ &circ; modifier circumflex accent © &copy; copyright † &dagger; dagger ‡ &Dagger; double dagger ° &deg; degree ÷ &divide; division „ &bdquo; double low-9 quotation mark ½ &frac12; fraction half (not on older Macs) ¼ &frac14; fraction quarter (not on older Macs) ¾ &frac34; fraction three quarters (not on older Macs) > &gt; greater than … &hellip; horizontal ellipsis ¡ &iexcl; inverted exclamation mark ¿ &iquest; inverted question mark « &laquo; left-pointing double angle quotation mark “ &ldquo; left double quotation mark ‹ &lsaquo; single left-pointing angle quotation mark ‘ &lsquo; left single quotation mark < &lt; less than ¯ &macr; macron µ &micro; micro · &middot; middle dot — &mdash; em dash – &ndash; en dash   &nbsp; non-breaking ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/08/03/common-html-special-characters/ This article gives directions on how to roll your own ddns server. I currently use kilbot.homeip.net for my home development server, the dynamic dns service is provided by dyndns.org. By following this article I could use dev.kilbot.com.au which would be a more elegant solution for my clients... sure beats paying ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/07/14/setting-up-a-dev-server/ [flashvideo filename=flash/kilbot-factory.flv /] http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/04/26/what-is-a-kilbot-factory/ A web host provides the hardware and services necessary for making your site available on the internet. This service is separate to domain registration, a domain name merely provides a pointer to your host server, for more information on domain registration please see "What is a domain?". A host will generally ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/01/18/what-is-web-hosting/ A domain name is your unique address on the internet (eg: kilbot.com.au). Domains are available from Domain Name Registrars. The registrars charge a yearly or biannual fee and so long as you continue to pay the fee no one else can register or use that domain name. A domain name contains ... http://www.kilbot.com.au/2006/01/16/what-is-a-domain-name/ http://www.brettcoelho.com.au The Kilbot Factory was contracted by Mintox Design to create a Content Management System for Melbourne artist Brett Coelho. The CMS allows Brett to add, edt and delete the content and also add new galleries so that the site can expand in future years. http://www.kilbot.com.au/2005/12/08/brett-coelho/ http://www.ewencoates.com.au The Kilbot Factory was contracted by Mintox Design and Ewen Coates to provide an interactive Flash animation for three of Ewen's installations. Click here to explore the installations. http://www.kilbot.com.au/2005/12/08/ewen-coates/