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I have been using phpMyAdmin for a long time now to manage MySQL databases via the web, and have really loved the functionality they provide when displaying forms. If there is a radio button or check box that needs to be checked, you don't have to aim for the box or button itself, you can just click on the text next to the button/box. And voilà, the button is checked. This makes it so much more useable, especially when filling in long forms. To do this all you need to do is put a label tag around the text next to the checkbox/radio button, and put in a 'for' attribute that tells the form what button or checkbox to check when you click on the label.

I was trying to search for a certain bit of code in some files in dreamweaver, and was getting frustrated as there were no results, even though I knew the text was there. Turns out that dreamweaver was not searching in files that it didn't recognise (the extension was .men). I tried changing some settings to allow it to recognise the files, which it now does, but it still doesn't search them. Finally decided to change all the extensions to php as I know dreamweaver recognises php files and does search them. Found a nice freeware program that will rename multiple files.

Came across a great FTP and SSH tool (WinSCP) for those of you who are web designers or web developers and spend some time transferring files and performing tasks on a remote web server.

I recently went to the Cell C website to find out about their contracts. When I got to the home page I clicked on a "more" link which I thought would take me to the website content I was looking for, and to me it looked as though nothing had changed (even though the page had refreshed), as the same large flash advert at the top of the page kept playing - there was no indication that I had moved to the content that I had requested.