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    The Blogosaurus is a company technology blog from Louisville Web Development firm MIB Solutions. The issues on or blog range from our personal use of Wordpress, Joomla, PHP and Database programming, AJAX, Flash, and other web development languages and tools we use on our client's projects.

    The Blogosaurus was born in 2008, and continues to be a resources for Internet professionals and Google searches alike.

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    Beta Testing Google Chrome for Mac

    Monday, November 30th, 2009

    While we all have to wait for Google Chrome to be released for Macintosh OS, why not start beta testing it before it’s released? I’ve downloaded it (beta download here) and so far haven’t run into any bugs or crashing, which is pretty nice. You can definitely see the UI Google brings to anything they touch. Check [...]

    C02 Costs of the Web … The Green Side to the Internet and C02 emissions

    Sunday, July 12th, 2009

    By the time you finish reading my article, some 100,000 milligrams of C02 will be emiitted, which brings up a very interesting article about the cost of hosting’s energy usage. Some interesting points you should note before reading,
    Anti-virus software firm McAfee [to user other than Linux, this is a program Windows based users have to [...]

    Google Chrome Operating System, gOS

    Thursday, July 9th, 2009

    (view of the new Google Operating System, set to release 2010)
    So it’s official now and all over the news networks (even all of the financials): Google is coming out with an Operating System. I welcome the talk of such a feat, because this is the first time I have heard such discussion about people having [...]

    JavaScript Not Working in IE?

    Monday, April 13th, 2009

    While recently updating MIB Solutions‘ website, I wanted to use JavaScript to produce a very interesting function which would great the visitor with a special message depending on the time of the day of the user. I wanted to use PHP, but since that is server-side (thus producing only the time of my server) I [...]

    Free Internet Explorer Screen Shots

    Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

    Designing websites to work in Internet Explorer is the worst part about being a web developer. Luckily I found a snazzy website which views any url in four different Internet Explorer versions. To view free Internet Explorer Screen Shot website please visit here.

    What Screen Resolution to Design For?

    Sunday, March 15th, 2009

    A few years ago the word on the street among developers and inside the halls of the design firms was to design your website to fit within a 800 x 600 screen resolution. At the time many grandparents and older Moms were using such a screen size, and it was also a few years before [...]

    Wordpress Image Caption CSS

    Thursday, January 15th, 2009

    The bad thing about producing a free Wordpress theme to download, is every year the theme will be missing something once Wordpress comes out with newer Systems. Newer systems means new code which was left out in the previous themes designed for the older Wordpress version. Wordpress now has the ability to create image captions [...]

    Flash For Non-Flashers

    Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

    While working on my most recent project for Louisville, Kentucky’s KaZoing Party and Play, I wanted to include a flash object displaying as many photos of the business as I could. Flash is one of the best resources for programmers and web developers today, depending if they know how to use it for web viewers [...]

    Wordpress Rounded Menu Borders CSS Explained

    Friday, December 12th, 2008

    So a client wanted a clean looking rounded border menu on their new company blog, and I had to figure out how to make this happen using the Wordpress menu which is auto-generated in WP, and to show up in major browsers (including IE). Whew, my job is never easy.
    I enlisted some Craigslist help and [...]

    Rounded Corners with Wordpress

    Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

    Rounded Borders – Oh No!
    Everyone loves rounded corners in their designs, but sometimes it might not be the best news to the programmer trying to implement this from the psd file. A client of mine had a design that needed the entire sidebar to be a rounded corner. Of course I am trying to implement [...]