Danny Angelosanto's Webmaster Blog

Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Fridge Van Site Complete!

I just thought I'd post this seeing as though I've been out of the website game for so long - yet I've just completed my first site in about a year and a half!

The site is called Arctic Chiller Vans and its just a basic xhtml/css site. The company is based in Keighley, West Yorkshire close to where I live, and they offer new and used fridge vans as well as fridge van conversions.

As they are a fairly new business, they currently deal mainly in a small selection of used fridge vans, but they plan to expand quickly and start selling new fridge vans as well.

They can also convert your current vehicle into a fridge van.

Anyway, the URL is http://www.arcticvans.co.uk/ so check it out if you like and leave me any feedback you like.

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Red link backgrounds - firefox add on to blame!

Recently, red backgrounds have been appearing on my links in my browser and it was doing my head in! i looked on a couple of forums but despite the amount of problems people were having nobody knew how to get rid of them.

Turns out it was a Firefox add-on that was doing it - and not the web developer toolbar like a lot of people thought. It was 'SEO For Firefox', an add on that gives you information about a sites SEO status.

If you have this add-on and are suffering from the same problem, its easy to fix:

Right Click >> SEO For Firefox >> Options

And its the enable/disable highlighting option

Hope this sorts your problem out!

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Centering divs/Centering your page

People often ask questions about centering divs, or how can I center my page?

Well there a fair few centering techniques out there, but heres one I find particularly useful.

It supports skinny web designs, that is sites that don't use the entire screen. Usually, these pages' HTML is set out so that there is a wrapper div (or a containing div) around the rest of the divs and content. This is the div that you need to center.

The way I go about it is to give the wrapper div a percentage value, we'll use 80% in this example. Then, take the remaining percentage (in this case 20%) and half it (10%.... obviously :D). Then give the wrapper div a left-margin of 10% (or whatever number you came up with).

Now the wrapper div will always appear centered, and therefore all of the inner divs will be centered along with it!

Thursday, 26 July 2007

Digg ditches Google and teams up with Microsoft

Digg.com, the popular user-provided news site, has sacked Google as its ad provider, and instead struck a three-year deal with Microsofts younger 'adCenter'.

The deal came as a surprise to the users of Digg, as the site has be known to support Apple and Unix, and practically campaign against Microsoft and its Windows systems. One Digg user, Lemonblood, stated simply, "Today is the day Digg died."

It has been suggested that Microsoft may have offered a revenue share that was too good to turn down, despite the fact that they may not make anything at all on them.

The deal has been likened to the one that Microsoft did with social networking site facebook last August. People are expecting to start seeing these deals take place with other such sites, for example, the fastly growing yet unfinished Sceneparty.com

I guess we'll have to wait and see

Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Free Directories - huge list

Found a big list of free directories that I thought you might be interested in:

DirectoryCritic.com

Hope you find it useful!

Thursday, 19 July 2007

Bookmarking Sites List

Hey, I've always wondered about all of the different bookmarking sites that there are nowadays, as well as the ones that everyone knows about. So when I came across a big list of them (on http://www.populair.eu/) I thought I'd share it with you

Alternatively of course, there is a pretty good little thing you can use:

This is a simple way of having lots of different bookmarking sites on your own, as it uses 34 bookmarking sites in one button. You can find these buttons absolutely free at AddThis.com

Anyway, this is the list:

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