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Friday, July 31, 2009

IE8 rendering white space - Asp.net Menu

If you are using the ASP.NET Menu control for your custom designed website navigation, you might have encountered this issue where the sub menu appears as a white blank box in IE8.

To resolve this, you just need to manually set the z-index property of the menu items (sub-menu) using the 'DynamicMenuStyle' property of the asp:Menu control.

Example:

//<head runat="server">

<style type="text/css">

   .IE8Fix{z-index:100;}

</style>

</head>

<asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">

             <DynamicMenuStyle CssClass="IE8Fix" />

</asp:Menu>//
Posted By Website design Melbourne At 1:26 PM •
Thursday, July 30, 2009

How big is the internet?

The News.Com.Au posted an interesting piece of statistic today on their website showing number of internet users by country.  As shown in the image (taken from News.Com.Au website), China has the highest number of users - 298 million , however, when we look at it as a percentage of country's population it is only 22.4%.

This has revealed something for us Australians to be proud of - Australia has the highest number of internet users by percentage of population with 80.6% Australians using internet.

internet-users3.jpg
Posted By Website design Melbourne At 2:32 PM •
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Attack on Microsoft Office!

This week Microsoft warned that hackers have attacked MS Office software users. This has mainly affected Windows PCs. The hackers have found the holes in the office software that the giant has yet to repair.

Microsoft issued the warning this week about this and some other security issues in the office software.


Based on the available details, hackers are taking advantage of the Office vulnerability with help of dodgy websites by entering viruses that loads onto computers running Office software. These infected PCs are then used for identity theft, spamming and other cyber crimes.


There are not much details available from Microsoft on the number of PCs affected by this. However, it seems like a large number given the pace of response from the software giant.

As suggested by a KB article on Microsoft website, users can prevent attacks by disabling functions within the Office software that allow it to work over the web. A  tool has been posted on Microsoft website that automatically disables the web component on your MS Office.

The users vulnerable to the attacks are Office XP, 2003 and 2007.
Posted By Website design Melbourne At 10:02 PM •