It’s not ideal, but sometimes we need to resort to targeting specific browsers.

Here is a guide of some methods/tricks to target IE, Safari & Chrome to help make your designs appear correctly in all major browsers. I have compiled these from various online sources.

Internet Explorer

  .class{
  width:200px; /* All browsers */
  *width:250px; /* IE */
  _width:300px; /* IE6 */
  .width:200px; /* IE7 */	
}

source: http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/15-techniques-and-tools-for-cross-browser-css-coding

Chrome & Safari

/**
 * This hack targets the Webkit browser engine
 * which includes Safari and Chrome.
 */
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {

    div.css {
        width: 300px;
        height: 200px;
        border: 1px solid blue;
    }
}

Source: http://technify.me/code-snippets/css-hack-to-target-safari-and-chrome/

Stackoverflow is an invaluable, question and answer type website.  It is a very well-organized and active site with a clean, friendly, user interface.

 Github offers a place for collaborative coding which helps people, “build software together”.

Pastebin is a place where we can post, or “paste” rather, text/code for a set period of time.  It offers syntax-based styling and the ability to set when the pasted content should expire.  This comes in handy when you want to share code with people such as when wanting to reference your own code when posting in an online forum.

Color Scheme Designer is a very useful tool to get color combination ideas.  I generally use it when I need to find colours to compliment a colour I have already chosen.  For example, I may plugin the colour of a logo I am using to find colours to use in a header.

w3 Schools is all about teaching us how to build websites.  They offer tutorials and examples of the wb’s most popular languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, ASP.NET, PHP etc.

This jquery web-app is a fantastic resource for generating color schemes. Take the situation where a client has a logo but wants a website. I can scan his business card, retrieve the hexadecimal value of one of the elements from the card and plug this value into Color Scheme Designer. Then, it will generate different color schemes for me on-the-fly. It even generates dummy web pages so I can see the virutal color palette in action. This is a very helpful tool for anybody who works with colours.

1. Browse your Joomla database (phpMyAdmin or other) and select the jos_users table

2. Edit the record with your desired username (typically admin)

3. You will notice that passwords appear encrypted.

a) If the password appears encrypted but does not contain “:”, it is likely just an MD5 encryption.  In that case, type in the text string version of your new password, select “MD5″ from the drop-down menu and click “go” or “update”.

b)  If you see a “:” somewhere in the password, this means it has been encrypted with an MD5 has + salt for added security.  Use this link to generate an encrypted password with Joomla salt.  Copy it and paste it into the password field in your database entry.  Click “go” or “update”.

4. Login to Joomla with your new password.