Iphone Web Design
Check out Thatgrafix Iphone Web Design
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With the increasing demand for the iphone it accounts for over %70 of mobile phone internet usage. Now Thatgrafix does IPhone Web Design. As an add on to your existing project a simple Iphone web application is built with your website contents.
Thatgrafix.com on PDX Web Designers.com
This website is dedicated to exposing quality web designers to potential clients in the Portland Oregon area. It also doubles as a great web designer gallery/showcase of some great talent around the area.
Thatgrafix.com featured on CSSclip.com
Thatgrafix.com is very honored to be featured on CSSclip.com. Go over there and vote for thatgrafix and leave a note! http://www.cssclip.com/thatgrafix
GoDaddy Servers Down
It appears that Godaddy's servers are down. Looks like it might be denial of service attack... too soon to tell.
The company, the largest registrar of internet domain names and one of the largest web hosting providers, said it was the subject of "large-scale, sophisticated attacks" that lasted four to five hours.
Services hosted at one of the company's data centers suffered sluggish or zero response times as a result. Its other data centers were unaffected.
GoDaddy chief information security officer Neil Warner told us that the attack was a SYN flood that targeted a particular under-protected service. We have agreed not to name the targeted service, at the request of GoDaddy.
Other services that are hosted at the targeted data center, including many customer websites, were also affected.
"This was a little different for us," Warner said. "Usually when we see a DDoS, somebody's mad at a particular hosting customer... We're probably always under a DDoS attack of some kind."
The attack started at 6.50am Arizona time but it was clearly not, as some had speculated earlier in the day, a technical glitch caused by the unusually early switch to Daylight Savings Time in the US.
It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that the attacker chose yesterday morning to attack because GoDaddy had been criticized in the media on Friday for its unclear position on patching its servers to the new DST schedule.
Under recent US energy legislation, DST, in which the clocks "spring forward" one hour, was pulled forward to March 11, the second Sunday in March, rather than the first Sunday in April, which this year is April 1.
GoDaddy is based in Arizona, a state unusual in that it does not observe the switch to DST.
Warner declined to speculate on the motive for the attack. His team is poring over packet captures to see if they can determine the source or motivation.
Dozens of bloggers and web forum posters complained yesterday that their websites had gone dark for one or more hours. Some claimed to be losing money due to the downtime.
According to Warner, the affected service was seeing 70,000 packets per second at the height of the attack. For comparison, that's about 20,000 more packets per second than the SYN flood that took down The SCO Group's website in 2003.
Ordinarily, the GoDaddy infrastructure would be able to handle such an attack, but the attacker appeared to have found a weak spot.
A SYN flood is a well-documented form of DDoS attack that exploits the three-way handshake involved in setting up a TCP-IP conversation.
In normal TCP-IP handshakes, the computer initiating a connection sends a SYN, for synchronize, packet. The recipient sends back a SYN-ACK, or synchronize acknowledgement, to which the sender responds with an ACK, for acknowledgement.
In a SYN flood attack, the attacker spoofs the IP address of the SYN packet's source, so that SYN-ACKs are never responded to, and the victim's resources are tied up managing tens of thousands of bogus sessions.
Warner said his security and network teams managed to contain the problem and put preventative measures in place to mitigate future attacks.
Htech and Thatgrafix, Portland Web Design
Together over the last year or so we have teamed up with Holdridge Technologies here in Portland Oregon. We have designed many websites together. You can see some of these in my portfolio. Being two small web design firms in the Portland area offers both our companies many exciting opportunities.
10 Great CSS Hacks
Pulled from: http://stylizedweb.com
If you are front end coder you must know how important is to make cross browses, valid CSS and xHTML code. And also you must know how much time we are spending in all those hacks and fixes for various browsers. I’ve written about some of them earlier on PNG transparency issues, Yellow fields in web form, Vertical align div etc..
Here is the list of 10 hand picked CSS hacks and tricks which can help you in your CSS code and also save some time.
1. Vertical align div
http://stylizedweb.com/2008/02/01/vertical-align-div/
2. Min-Height
selector {
min-height:500px;
height:auto; !important
height:500px;
}
3. PNG transparency
http://stylizedweb.com/2007/12/30/png-transparency-issues/
4. Autoclear
.container:after {
content: “.”;
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
.container {display: inline-table;}
/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
* html .container {height: 1%;}
.container {display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */
5. Reset CSS
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,
fieldset,input,p,blockquote,th,td {
margin:0; padding:0;
}
table {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}
fieldset,img {border:0;}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var {
font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;
}
ol,ul {list-style:none;}
caption,th {text-align:left;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {font-size:100%;}
q:before,q:after {content:”;}
6. Scrolling Render IE
html {
background : url(null) fixed no-repeat;
}
7. Opacity
#transdiv {
filter:alpha(opacity=75);
-moz-opacity:.75;
opacity:.75;
}
8. PRE Tag
pre {
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}
9. Li Background Repeat IE
10. Good to know
@charset “UTF-8″;
/* ———————————————————————-
WinIE7
———————————————————————- */
*:first-child+html selector{property:value;}
/* ———————————————————————-
WinIE6 & Mac IE
———————————————————————- */
* html selector{property:value;}
/* ———————————————————————-
WinIE6
———————————————————————- */
/*\*/
* html selector{property:value;}
/**/
/* ———————————————————————-
MacIE
———————————————————————- */
/*\*//*/
selector{property:value;}
/**/
Until the Violence Stops Project
I am very happy to be a part of the development of this particular website. By teaming up with Holdridge Technologies we have this site off the ground and running. Visit the website to learn more... This project was a treat.
Safari for Windows
I was very skeptical at first when reading about the new Safari browser for windows. In its native format (mac) it is a great streamlined browser,.. could it be true in windows?.. Yep.. and Apple boasts quicker performance could it be true?.. yep. This browser rules. Check it out. Once again IE takes a back seat.
Download it HERE
Prudential Malibu and TCOR
I just finished two pretty large projects that were very fun to do. They came out pretty darn good. Take a look in the Porfolio section.