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| Editorial March 7th, 2003 |
G'Day Sizzlers!
Another couple of weeks have slipped by and a lot is happening
behind the scenes at Sausage. Although stressful for the staff,
it should see us moving forward with new and exciting projects
very rapidly!
While all of these happening are taking place, I am attempting to
keep the Sizzler going forward as best as possible. We have some
more great articles and opinions, so I will leave you to it.
Read, learn, then implement.
Keep on sizzling!
Nathan Allan
Sausage Sizzler Editor
editor@sausage.com
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HotDog Helper - Ergonomics
Ergonomics is about helping you to work more effectively and more
efficiently as well as considering the physical aspects such as
layout, eye-strain and seating.
HotDog's Rover is a great feature allowing you to work better and
save time by utilising up to three views to help you create
fantastic pages. You can view the code of the web page you are
creating in the editing pane, preview your web page in another
pane using Rover and view the code of another document in the
final pane. This means you no longer have to navigate between
windows as you can compare code directly and view the results
live. (Rover stands for Real-time Output ViewER). The inclusion
of rulers in Rover also makes sizing and debugging a whole lot
easier.
This is especially useful if you update your websites on a
regular basis or if you copy code from one document to another.
You can also change many of Rovers features in the Preferences so
it behaves exactly the way you want, including automatic live
updates.
However, some people may prefer to also use an external viewer -
such as Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, or any of the
excellent browsers - but find that switching from one window to
another a tedious and time-consuming task. All you want is HotDog
side-by-side with your favourite browser so you can move your
move from one to the other effortlessly and I'll be showing you
how to do that in next week’s newsletter.
Post your comments here:
http://www.sizzlerforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1399
HotDog Tip by Kevin Hannan
Flash Wizard 98/ME/NT/2000/XP Freeware
I love the software that Crazy Ivan Productions comes out with. I
have featured a lot of it in the past and it is the core of our
Graphics ToolKit.
Now this little program is freeware that allows you to import
Flash files (swf) and generate the proper Object and Embed
statements for any given .swf file. It works for both Flash 5 and
Flash MX file types.
More information:
http://www.gfx2swf.com/sausage/
Download here:
http://www.gfx2swf.com/sausage/fwizard.exe
Reviewed by Nathan Alan
Error Pages
What happens when you get an error page and what can you do about
it?
The error pages come in a variety of forms, but are customisable
by the webmaster.
For example:
Sorry We're sorry, but the requested URL does not exist. Please
e-mail support@your_domain.com if you need further assistance.
Such messages are called error documents, and are web pages
designed to give a polite explanation for error conditions. These
error conditions generate numbers that are used to refer to the
appropriate error condition. Some of the most common messages are
as follows:
Error in Client
400 Bad syntax
401 Unauthorized
402 Not Used (Payment Granted)
403 Forbidden
404 Not Found - Most common
Error in Server
500 Internal Error
501 Not Implemented
502 Overloaded
503 Gateway Timeout
How do I customise error messages?
1) First, create the HTML page you want to use as your error
message and upload it to your 'www' directory.
2) Next, create a .htaccess file and add lines which specify the
substitution. Here are three examples of specifying error
documents which will be called for a given error condition (note
you can use relative or absolute addressing):
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.your_domain.com/401.html
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.your_domain.com/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.your_domain.com/404.html
Just add these lines to your .htaccess file.
3) Next upload the .htaccess file into your 'www' directory. You
will not see it once uploaded since it gets hidden by the server.
4) Test is out. Go to http://www.your_domain.com/anything_you_want.html
There are a multitude of customised error pages - have you seen
any that are especially good or rude? Let us know on the
Sizzlerforums by going to www.sizzlerforums.com!
Post your comments here:
http://www.sizzlerforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1400
Tip by Kevin Hannan
To read the Sizzler Forums you do not need to be a member.
However to take full advantage of this resource it will only take
you a few seconds to sign up!
- Go to: http://www.sizzlerforums.com/
- Read the information and click on the REGISTER button
- Fill out the form
- You will receive an email that you simply reply to
- Hey presto! Your a fully fledged Sizzler Forums member!
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