William Duffy

Glasgow Based ASP.NET Web Developer

SEO in Glasgow

Search Engine Optimisation is an area of the internet that is still very much in its infancy. The techniques and skills required to optimise a website to meet the needs of your customers, the requirements of your business and the technical structure of search engines (preferably in that order) is an advanced skill-set that many [...]



Remove Address Bubble From Google Maps IFrame

Something that always annoys me about the quick implementation of Google Maps is the rubbish address bubble that pops up on the auto generated iframe code. What makes it even more annoying is that you can remove the address bubble using Google’s neat little popup interface, but the customisation does not work. Nightmare!
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Min-Height in Internet Explorer

Do you ever need to specify a min-height for an element on your site? You’ll know if you do that Internet Explorer does not play fair with it. Here is a nice, clean solution that you can use to get full browser support.



Sql Server 2008 - Saving changes is not permitted

After installing Sql Server 2008 one of my developers was having a hard time trying to save updates to any of our database tables. Every time he tried to save a table alteration he was presented with the error.

Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped [...]



ASP.NET Request.Querystring with Escaped Ampersands

Take the following url “/images/myimage.jpg&width=300″. URL Encoding has no support whatsoever for HTML Encoding so passing an escaped ampersand html entity though a url in this format is illegal. Now, you may well be thinking “Hold on a minute William, I need to escape my ampersands to have valid XHTML markup on my pages”. Your [...]

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