Web Design Diary - Freelance Web Designer

Popular Android Version Codenames

DENIS — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:53:48 +0000

Android 2.0/2.1

Android 2.2 Froyo

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Rewriting URLs with .HTACCESS file

DENIS — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:48:43 +0000

Below is my personal .htaccess file to rewrite static html and php files to more meaningful, SEO-oriented links. Feel free to use it and extend according to your needs.

Enjoy!

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

## Error pages.
ErrorDocument 404 /not-found.html

## Canonical Urls
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com.au$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]

## URL Re-Writes
RewriteRule ^about-us/$ /about.html [L]
RewriteRule ^services/$ /services.html [L]

Customising your Facebook Page

DENIS — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:14:19 +0000

Creating your Facebook Page

1. Login to Facebook using your account.

2. Scroll to the footer and choose Create a Page, or open a new tab to:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

Choose between place, company, brand and so on. In this case, we will choose Brand as “Website” and a title.
Agree to Facebook terms and click Get Started.
Your facebook page has now been created. You can add your own description and images to it.

Customising your Facebook Page

1. Fire up your favourite photo/image editor and create a new image file with the following dimensions:
180×540 (pixels)

2. Add your logo and/or text to your photo and save it as JPG. Upload to your Facebook page as the Page profile image.

Getting a Facebook Vanity URL

To secure a username in the url (e.g. http://www.facebook.com/lewebaustralia/), you will need to have at least 25 fans for that page (see Facebook Help Centre http://www.facebook.com/help/pages/usernames). If you do, open a tab to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and secure your own vanity url on facebook.

Creating an App for a Facebook Tab e.g. Welcome Tab

1. In order to create a customised Facebook Tab, you need to create a Facebook App first. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps and create a new app.

2. Choose an App Display Name (Le Web Australia) and Namespace (lewebaustralia)
3. Record your App ID and App Secret in a safe place.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the App page info and choose Page Tab. Fill up the following details:
Page Tab Name, Page Tab URL, Secure Page Tab URL and Page Tab Edit URL. Save the changes.

Creating your Customised Landing Tab

On your web host (e.g. http://www.yousite.com.au/facebook/”, add the following index.html file:

I design and develop websites

Your text goes here!

Adding the Facebook Tab (App) to your Page

http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL, where YOUR_URL is where your html file is stored (e.g. yousite.com.au/facebook/)

Your custom tab is now live!

Now login as your page (right hand column) instead of your personal account and click Edit Page.

Change the default landing page to your new Tab and save the changes. Congrats! you now have a customised Tab on your Facebook Page profile!

My Twitter Background

DENIS — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:09:00 +0000

My Twitter Page background

Does that one look like a bird to you?

Welcome to my Journal!

DENIS — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:19:02 +0000

My Web Design Diary

Hi there! Welcome to my diary or journal, if you prefer. I’ve just finished with the WordPress template (you’re on it as you’re reading this), so this section is quite empty at the moment. Feel free to pop in again!