Archive for the ‘Mini Design Tips’ category

Mini Tip #5 301 Redirecting a HTML or PHP Web Page

January 31st, 2010

1) Create a txt file. Name it: htaccess.txt.

2) Copy this code into the htaccess.txt file:

redirect 301 /oldpagename.html http://www.yoursite.com/newpagename.html

Note: be mindful to keep all spaces present as the above is written. You may also redirect html or php.

3) Replace oldpagename.html with your previous page name.

4) Replace http.../newpagename.html with the new page you wish to redirect to.

5) Upload to the root directory of your site.

6) Rename the htaccess.txt file to: .htaccess - with no file extension.

Enter the URL to your old webpage and it should redirect!

All done!

Mini Tip #4 Disabling Right-click in Flash MX and higher

May 14th, 2009

Don’t like that default right-click menu when you create a Flash movie? Here’s a simple way of removing it!

Create a new layer in your main timeline. Click on the first frame. Press F9 to bring up the Actions window and paste this code:

Stage.showMenu = false;

And you’re done! Test your movie and right-click to see the change.

Mini Tip #3 Checking Web Design Compatability in all Browsers

May 7th, 2009

It’s safe to say every web designer, now and then, comes to blows with a certain browser version when building a site compatible to its specific guidelines.

Xenocode.com allows you to download and run any browser from the web. Each browser, whether it be a version of Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, Opera or Safari is roughly 12mb in size.

A handy tool to have when building a compatible website for all browsers.

Mini Tip #2 Removing DMOZ description tags

May 2nd, 2009

If your website is registered with DMOZ (Open Directory Project), you may notice after altering your description tags, search engines such as Google still retain the description info from DMOZ instead.

The process of updating your DMOZ description may take a number of weeks, depending on the hectic schedule of the editors there. Placing the below code within your tags tells all search engines to ignore any DMOZ information regarding the page in question. After your site is next crawled, your description should be updated!

< meta name="robots" content="NOODP" />