Andy Boyd


IE and Standards…. Do You Sense the Irony?

Posted in General by andy on the January 26th, 2007

I thought this was intersting. Rachel Andrew wrote a review on Microsoft’s Expression Web, its web editing tool for designers and developers:

http://www.thinkvitamin.com/reviews/css/microsoft-expression-web-designer-final-release/

Page 3 of the Quick Start Guide opens with the words:

“Standards-based websites”

Expression Web solves a problem facing all web designers today: how to build websites that fully adhere to published standards, including support for XHTML.”

This is just my opinion, but I would appreciate if they created a web-browser that correctly supports standards first…

Mac OS X Shell Commands

Posted in General by andy on the January 24th, 2007

Looking for OS X commands?  This is a great site to bookmark:

http://www.ss64.com/osx/

This is Cool… Automatic Offsite Backup

Posted in General by andy on the January 16th, 2007

CrashPlan uses a friends PC to automatically backup your data.

http://www.crashplan.com/

Test All Popular Email Systems

Posted in Web Stuff, Design by andy on the January 16th, 2007

Check out your email newsletters in a wide range of email clients, and webmail systems.

For every email you send to sitevista, you receive two screen captures. One of the email as it is displayed in the software’s preview pane, and one using their FullPage technology, showing you the entire message once it’s been opened.

http://www.sitevista.com/email.asp

Cross Platform, Cross Browser, Development

Posted in Web Stuff, Programming by andy on the January 16th, 2007

If you need to test your web sites (or other apps) on a different Operating System and don’t have the money to shell-out for a proprietary virtualization software… take a look at virtualbox.org, they have open-sourced their virtualization software…

http://www.virtualbox.org/

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Outlook 2007… Bye Bye HTML Email Support

Posted in Web Stuff, Design, CSS by andy on the January 15th, 2007

Just when you thought you ran out of reasons to curse the name of Microsoft… another reason rears it’s ugly head

“Well it looks as if Microsoft has screwed up royally with Outlook 2007, at least insofar as the way HTML emails are rendered. Instead of using the not-too-shabby Internet Explorer 7 rendering engine to display HTML emails, Microsoft opted to use a customized version of the Word 2007 rendering engine. That’s right, from now on your beautifully constructed HTML newsletters are going to be rendered by the crime against layout known as Microsoft Word. That fact alone was enough to send shivers down my spine, but when I dug a little deeper I discovered just how dire the situation really is.” - http://f6design.com/journal/2007/01/10/microsoft-drops-the-ball-with-outlook-2007/