Spark Website Design, Shropshire

Jquery cycle plugin with caption and image preload

JQuery Cycle is a wonderful plugin to add slideshow to your website easily. It supports slide effects (fading, cross, sliding etc..) and call back functions.
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/

We would like to put the slideshow on one part of the page and the caption on another location. The end result should look likes the slideshow on the home page of http://www.sjhill.co.uk

What process/program is accessing your hard drive madly?

If you are not using your computer or even not “intensively” using it, the hard disk drive LED still flash all time or just stay solid-on. Sometimes you can even hear that the hard drive is grinding. It can still happen even if you have closed all running programs. If you’re using laptop, it’s even worse because the fan will start spinning like mad.

This hidden process/program is slowing down your computer and sometime makes it un-usable.

To find out what hidden process/program is using your hard drive, you can google for some free tool and run it on your computer. You need to be careful what kind of tools you can run on your PC. Install a trust-worthy Antivirus software such as ESet before you install anything.

However, if you are using Windows, you can use the task manager. Start your task manager, click ‘View’ and then ‘Columns’, tick the ‘I/O Read’ and ‘I/O Write’ ticboxes. Click ‘OK’. And then on the task manager, click on ‘Processes’ tab, click on the ‘I/O reads’ heading so that you can see which process/program is using the most of such resources. You can right click on the process and kill it if it is not part of the core processes.

Task Manager IO options

New Acupuncture Clinic Website Launched

New website for Shropshire’s leading acupuncturist Dr. Daian Zou is now launched. Dr. Daian Zou is an esteemed acupuncturist running a clinic at St. John’s Hill in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

The website features animation slide show on home page; Wordpress content management system with testimonials, articles, and news.

Check it out at
http://www.sjhill.co.uk

St. John’s Hill Clinic

.htaccess to exclude password protected sub folder

In Wordpress installation, the default .htaccess is

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Basically it says if there is a file name or folder name of such, the rewrite rule will ignore it.
However, if you have a sub folder, for example, called subfolder, with another .htaccess within it to password protected that folder, the rewritecond will simply just not work.

Some people say you can put

Code:

RewriteEngine Off

in the .htaccess file within the subfolder. However, the .htaccess file of subfolder will not processed until the one of root folder is processed. That means it will never work.

Some suggests using IP address to protect the folder rather than password. This can only work to an extent if customer got a static IP on their ADSL router.

We found another way definitely work by using sub-domain name. If you setup your server to point the sub-domain directly to that folder, that folder will become root under the sub domain and the .htaccess will not be processed.

theblazingsaddles.com - Charity Event

Henry Brydon and Jamie King begin an epic bike adventure from London to Sydney on 3rd May 2010, cycling 25,000km through 25 countries. In doing this, they hope to raise a significant sum of money for Brain Tumour Research (Henry) and the MS Society (Jamie).

http://www.theblazingsaddles.com

Spark Computing developed and maintained the website (a mini text/picture/video blog is included) to help this charity event. Please support them by donating to the charity via this link

http://www.justgiving.com/henrybrydon

http://www.justgiving.com/jamie-king

Thank you!

	`RewriteEngine On`
	`RewriteBase /`
	`RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f`
	`RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d`
	`RewriteRule . /index.php [L]`