Have you ever tried using Microsoft Visio for creating database diagrams? Im using it at the moment for a large web application project and I’ve got to say, I hope there’s a better solution out there. I understand that Visio is design for lots of different uses and not just database diagrams, but it really is difficult to get a useful database diagram out of the software.
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If you are having trouble getting two div columns to match, then try this matching columns script. It is a very simple script that will match the height of the columns you specify (all you have to do is assign the class ‘column’ to the columns you want to match).
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Sometimes it can be very frustrating building websites that are cross-browser. One of the many issues is transparent png images in IE6.

PNG’s have enabled us to make beautiful images for websites with amazing transparency etc. There is a very simple way to make transparent png images work in all browsers.

Download file: png-fix.zip

This method uses CSS to fix the issue. You can define a class such as ‘transparent’ and apply that to the images whose transparency you want to make work in ie6, or simply use the fix in CSS for the img tag (therefore making all images’ transparency work in ie6).

I have been looking into the Subversion system this weekend. I had never used it myself but have recently been looking for a solution to the problem of collaberation on website projects (eg. two people making a change to a website, one overwriting the changes of the other… oh my goodness thats annoying). Since looking into Subversion, I have installed it on my internal server (Windows SBS 2003) using http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org and am using TortoiseSVN as the client… I am impressed! I have moved some of my projects over to Subversion and plan to add all new projects from now on. Read on for the repository layout article.

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