Web Design Articles & Tutorials

Web design articles & tutorials from Munky Online. These articles cover a range of topics from Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) styling guides to 301 redirects using an .htaccess configuration file.

HTTP error 0 occurred

A collection of fixes for the Drupal 6 Filefield error 'HTTP error 0 occurred'. The fix for me was a simple one (once I found what it was!) but one of these other fixes may help you...

Multiple Websites & Shared Folders With VirtualBox On Windows 7 Host

How to set up multiple websites to run from your LAMP development server and have the websites shared from your Windows host machine. This will allow you to work on your files and view them in your preferred browser on your host machine before uploading them to your live server.

LAMP Ubuntu Server On VirtualBox

This tutorial is to help you set up a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) Ubuntu virtual machine server running on VirtualBox. Use it as a test machine when developing your websites.

Remove URLs using a robots.txt

Take control of which pages the search engines can index by adding a robots.txt to your website or by setting a X-Robots-Tag.

SEO URL Canonicalization

Avoid multiple versions of your homepage being indexed by the search engines which could essentially split your websites ranking power.

Accessible CSS/XHTML - 3 Column Website Layout

Use the code in this tutorial to see how you can create a fully accessible 3 column layout that will work with any website. Feel free to download the example files to use as a starting point for your website.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Styling Guide

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) tutorial covering some of the advantages of using CSS in your designs and some basic methods for styling your web pages. Learn how to style headings and paragraphs to improve the appearance text on your pages. You are also shown how to store your styles in an external style sheet and link to it from your pages, which reduces the page loading times and allows you edit styles for your entire website from one location.

.htaccess 301 Redirects for IP Ranges

Ever have problems with spam being sent to your contact and blog commenting forms? Redirect the spammers using the offenders IP address and some clever tricks with your .htaccess configuration file.