http://www.elemental-works.com/blog Just Another Web Design Blog Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:14:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The problem is the following... I've made a nice .htaccess file which takes care of my url. They look nice and friendly but the problem is that in a subdirectory I have a script or something that does not like URL rewriting and throws all kind of errors. If you want ... http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/how-to-ignore-a-directory-when-using-mod_rewrite/ So...you have a bunch of photos (made with your 10+MP camera) and you can to add them to a website, blog or whatever. You want to re-size them, rename them (to something like image01, image02) and also you want to add a small watermark with your name or a website ... http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/batch-rename-resize-watermark-with-irfan-view/ Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the storage solution in the cloud from Amazon. Amazon S3 can be used for storing data (any amount) and the best part is that you only pay what you use (storage + traffic). You can use S3 for backup or you can host files ... http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/amazon-s3-review-5-free-clients/ A few days ago I wanted to delete a file (in Windows XP) but an error appeared: 'File in use' error.  The classic Windows Task Manager won't provide any info regarding which file is used by which process. As I had no idea what process was using my file I've googled ... http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/which-process-is-using-my-file-windows-process-explorer/ With Google Chart API you can create  a nice looking chart in a few seconds. Here you can read more about it: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ Here is a quick example: http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/google-chart-api-create-a-pie-in-seconds/ I've decided to test a free* solution for backup, file sharing and file synchronization. Because I work on many computers (one at work, one at home and a laptop) I need to have some files always with me and sometimes somebody else is editing them. I've tried so far using Google Docs ... http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/dropbox-review-backup-sync-and-sharing/ If you need the absolute path of a folder on your websit, you can easily find it with the PHP script below: <?php echo getcwd(); ?> The output will be something like: /home/johndoe/public_html http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/php-finding-the-absolute-path-on-apache/ I've decided to search the web for a  reliable and free Dreamweaver alternative... and I will present you today some of the tools I've found, starting with the best one (IMHO). Kompozer It's a great tool for editing HTML files, even if you don't have much experience with HTML. The rendering engine ... http://www.elemental-works.com/blog/web-design/free-dreamweaver-alternatives/