Made to Order Software Corporation - Internet Explorer

Snap! Website ($19.99/mo, first month is free!)

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:40:50 +0000

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Snap! is the most advanced, business quality Web 2.0 hosting service available. Snap!, powerful Content Management System (CMS), is easy to use and gives you peace of mind.

More and more, web hosting companies offer CMS systems to their customers. The US, French and German governments and many large businesses chose the same CMS as us. It gives you the ability to build a complete website in minutes and gives you full control of your content right from the start.

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MO Label Inside for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:22:50 +0000

$14.90

More and more, modern websites move the label attached to a text field input directly inside the text field. Especially, you see this feature when you are asked to enter an email address or a query string in a search box.

The MO Label Inside module offers this functionality for all of your Drupal text field input elements.

$14.90

Remote Blogging

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:10:12 +0000

Introduction

Snap! Blog Lite and Snap! Blog Pro support remote blogging.

Remote blogging is composed of two parts:

A blog that lets your editor connect to send new posts
A blogging client (i.e. an editor) running on your computer

Snap! Blogger is such a blog and it works with different editors as listed below.

Available Editors

ScribeFire is a FireFox plug-in. It works under MS-Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux.

BlogJet is a standalone editor for MS-Windows.

BlogDesk is a standalone editor that runs under MS-Windows.

Ecto is a standalone editor that runs under Mac ...

SimpleMenu Known Issues

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:36:07 +0000

SimpleMenu Disappears

There following are a few of the main reasons why SimpleMenu disappears.

Pop-up Windows

By default, SimpleMenu wants to hide itself in pop-up windows. This is a feature.

The reason is that many websites will open pop-up windows for all kinds of extra-features such as uploading an image or printing some description of an image or the definition of a word or product.

These windows should not include the SimpleMenu bar.

There is a dedicated page giving several different ways to fix this problem on your website.

Menu Overflow

Very long menus will disappear on the

Business Solutions

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:22:22 +0000

CRM and ERP solutions

At Made to Order Software we think that using Open Source software is an incredible leverage for our customers. Plain and simple: if the software is free, you do not need to pay for it. You only need to pay us for installing the software and training you on how to use it.

We currently offer three solutions: Compiere ERP & CRM, SugarCRM and X-Tuple ERP.

Internet Explorer “Save As …”

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:25:00 +0000

Today, I found a good one. Internet Explorer has a “Save As …” feature that let you save a page that you are visiting.

The page I have includes a table with a cell that has the align and valign attributes set to center and middle respectively. Once saved with Internet Explorer, these change to vAlign and align and center and middle respectively. Yes. Meaning that the values are swapped. Now the valign says center instead of middle, which will work with most browsers, but the worst is the align that is set to middle. That should never happen.

AJAX, CSS, HTML, XML, SOAP, LAMP… and now Web 2.0?

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:25:00 +0000

Dear reader,

Yes. With all these terms, it is quite easy to get lost.

As a developer, my skills are quite extensive. I started with Logo, learned assembly language, BASIC, C, C++… and all these other languages in between, those that most people pass by such as Ada, Eiffel, Icon… And the languages you kind of have to learn because you’re in it: Bourne Shell, configuration files for 100 different software, Makefile, etc.

And once you know all of these languages, you think you’re done. Well… Not quite!

The web has got it’s own set of languages! It

HTML Forms and the action attribute

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:15:00 +0000

Today I had to debug a set of HTML pages. One feature of a website would not work with Internet Explorer. The code was like this: