Castner IT is the single-person consulting business of Dr Grant Castner. I offer customised consulting and development services tailored to the requirements of your business. I specialise in web site design, search engine optimisation, web analytics, cloud computing, Microsoft Office development, elearning and IT business analysis.
Each day this week there will be a helpful and easy-to-use tip on improving your web site’s search engine optimisation (SEO). SEO techniques aim at improving your web site’s search results on search engines such as Google and Bing. The helpful tips and techniques will be available each day from the E-Nable elearning homepage once [...]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The objective of the “e-Nable” program is to assist small businesses to significantly enhance their web presence and engage in e-business capabilities, in order to help reduce their costs and improve their market opportunities. Castner IT is coordinating and delivering the program on behalf of Business Success Group. This is an Australian Government funded initiative [...]
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
This error was bugging me for a long time until I found this excellent forum discussion: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=541116&SiteId=1 The following points summarize the causes and solutions from the forum and offer some additional help: 1. Check if you have changed the length of any fields in the underlying database table after creating the dataset. If you [...]
A common scenario (at least for me) is the following: 1. Accept text input into a web form that includes multiline text boxes. The text often includes line breaks. 2. The text is stored in a database such as SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2005 has no problem storing the line breaks. 3. I then [...]
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SQL Server 2005 has enhanced security that prevents it initially from serving data for web pages. Here are the configuration settings to check before trying to create database driven web pages in Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, or any other web design application. Note that some of these settings reduce the security level of SQL Server 2005. [...]
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The calendar control is useful for displaying event dates that users can then click on for more information. Here are the steps for setting up the calendar control to display event information from database. 1. Place a calendar control on the required page (for example, default.aspx) 2. Create a second page called calendar.aspx for displaying [...]
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