Google’s new web browser “Chrome” has been released as a Bata product for Windows.

The open source browser is based on Apple’s Webkit and powered by Google Gears. Thus websites should be rendered close to the Safari browser, and conform to the web standards. Hopefully, this is so, as no one needs another browser to design around.

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A List Apart is once again calling all web designers, developers and everyone else who makes websites, to take their annual survey.

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Yesterday if you happened to visit this site you would have noticed all the styles were turned off. This was done to celebrate the third annual CSS Naked Day.

The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words…

It only happens once a year in April, so if you didn’t participate this year, mark your calendars for next year and show your support for web standards.

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There is a nice little write-up in the Observer & Eccentric Newspapers regarding the recent website redesign I did for the Building Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan. Here is a couple of excerpts from the article:

Building Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan also announced the launch of its new Web site at www.builders.org. The site offers a wealth of information for potential and current home owners including access to a list of professional master builders who have homes available in communities throughout southeastern Michigan.

The Web site also features a separate section for members of BIA and AAM that can be accessed using the member’s personal identification code.

HomeTownLife.com has the entire article on their website.

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I had a hard time finding a solution to redirect only certain files from HTTP to the secure HTTPS. I found all kinds of ways to redirect the entire site to HTTPS but none for specific pages only. After a few hours tinkering I found a solution using the following code in a .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^example.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
 
rewritecond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
rewriterule ^filename\.php(.*)$ https://www.example.com/filename.php$1 [r=301]

The first part of the code redirects example.com to www.example.com as noted in an earlier post, “301″ Redirects for SEO. The second part then redirects a specific file (filename.php) from http to https. Thus the individual file “filename.php” can only be accesses using a SSL connection.

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