DMXzone's ASP.NET premium author, Kevin Marshall, announces free ASP.NET property inspector extensions to work with MX 2004 and MX. The default inspectors have been enhanced to allow easy insertion of validators and event procedures directly from the property inspectors. New inspectors have been added to support .NET controls that don't have property inspectors by default.
They're available for download from his company website, WebXel.
Read MoreA DMXzone member spotted this: a report about a group of monks who are supporting their abbey - Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank - by selling cheap, high quality, laser printer cartridges with the kind of customer care that you'd hope for from a group of monks.
Their byline: "Support prayer for the world. Support charitable service to others. And be treated with genuine care."
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Read MoreMicrosoft have released a new tool to mop-up any residue of the Blaster virus from XP/ Win2K systems that may have been infected before they were patched are clean.
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Read MoreAt DMXzone, we've launched our RSS feed. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, and is a way of putting out content in a pre-defined way so that anyone else who wants to can take the text file and automatically import it into their own site. If you want lots of detail, here's the full specification, but in order to use someone else’s RSS feed in your own web site, all you really need to know is that an RSS feed is text, but the data in it is a small subset of XML. DON'T PANIC! (I always say that when someone sees the 'X' word). RSS isn't nicknamed Really Simple Syndication for nothing).
Most web developers write a script in their preferred scripting language that grabs the feed at a pre-defined interval (depending on how frequently it’s updated by its author) and then put it in their website using ASP/ PHP (or whatever). Because it’s just text, the typeface, colours etc are determined by the HTML or CSS of the site that is consuming the feed. (If you are running a PHP-driven site, Matt Machell has a very simple tutorial with all the code needed use someone’s RSS feed in your site.)
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Reuters reports that on-line sales in 2003 amounted to $18.5 billion, excluding travel, compared with $13.7 billion in 2002, a rise of 35 percent. We hope that DMXzone members' sites saw the lion's share of that $18.5 billion!
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Advanced Conditional Region will allow you to show a selection of your page only when a specific condition is true. This way you can easily hide portions of your page that are not to be displayed.
Now compatible with Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver MX 2004!
Read MoreMicrosoft have released a beta of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP to selected testers. It includes significant security enhancements including