Anyname Domain Services

Looks like there are sporadic contact form issues where the input isn’t being recognised. A successful submit should display the sent message in green with a success message. If you’re having issues contacting us through the contact form please use your normal email program to send a message to admin[at]anyname[dot]co[dot]uk. Replacing the parenthesis with dots of course.

Update: Hopefully these are fixed now…. thanks wordpress for not fixing the ‘failed upgrade’ bug, or adding a new ‘feature’ to the spaghetti code that is WordPress Core!

Most of us come from a western culture where reading is performed left to right. It’s natural therefore to automatically read the a web site URL from left to right to understand where the link is from. The DNS systems – which controls how and where data between browser -> internet -> server is routed works the other way – from right to left. Many Phishers and email scammers have used this to their advantage.

I had a problem recently with ‘headers already sent’ which was traced to white-space at the end of an included php file which because of the php.ini error level was displaying an error to browser and catching out the header() function.

In the past I’ve always put a trailing ?> tag in a php file to match the mandatory

Nominet’s annual AGM this July is a bit more of an interesting event than in normal years. The political in-fighting, government intrusion, and general malaise at the heart of the Nominet membership-board relationship has brough to a head certain issues that the ongoing governance review and AGM vote will go some way to address… or not. Time will tell

“Beautiful CSS rich sites with invalid, incorrect or non-semantic markup and incorrect or missing DocTypes”

I love trawling the web, wading through a lot of the well known – and some not so well known – CSS gallery sites such as cssmania.com looking for inspiration, or just admiring the view. For a relatively ‘artistically challenged’ techie like myself these sites are an important source of inspiration and creativity. A bit like webdesign porn!