A Web Designer's View – Port Elizabeth, St Francis Bay, South Africa

Very recently I have been getting quite a lot of sites hacked by guys who leave an include in files like js and php files. This include calls a script from their own servers located at inkrainbow.ru and pocketbloke.ru.

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As a web developer we all know that sticking mailto: links on a site without any protection is a big no-no, because of spam harvesters. Unfortunately from time to time you get clients that insist on this. I’ve noticed that some web developers insert the mailto: link by converting the whole link to htmlentities. I [...]

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Joomla! 1.5 has arrived. The stable version was released on 22 January 2008. If you are a web developer, you must have come across Joomla! before. The big thing is of course, customising Joomla!. It is fairly simple if you understand how the template system works. Before the new version came out I used an [...]

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So I spoilt myself with a brand new laptop. Being into web development, I have been warned by my fellow developers to steer clear of Windows Vista. My new laptop came with Vista, but I had the option to change it to XP. I thought, what the hell lets take the plunge. Eventually everyone will [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a web designer. I live in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. My company’s name is Black Alsatian. Yes this post is in a way to shamelessly punt my own business, but it is also in the hope that someone would read it before getting a web designer to build a website [...]

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