Can't login to Joomla admin area

with the known username and password.

In phpmyadmin, go to the table jos_plugins.
Edit "User - Joomla!"
Change published from 0 to 1
Fixed the probem that began out of nowhere.

Answer found here and reposted in case it gets lost cause I'll never remember on my own.

To change the title tag for a Joomla 1.5 page

In the administrator area, click on Menus then choose the proper menu.
In the list of menu items, choose the one to change.
Click on Paramaters (System) and there will be a variable "Page Title".

One way to see if you're compliant

In Firefox, right-click on a page and click "View Page Info". The default "General" tab shows Render Mode which should read "Standards compliance mode", not "Quirks mode".

Gmail gives error?

Yesterday one of my business emails from Terri@WebDevelopersStudio.com kicked back with this error:

"Technical details of permanent failure:Google tried to deliver your message,
but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other
email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error
that the other server returned was: 554 554 The message was rejected because it
contains prohibited virus or spam content (state 18)."

I think I notice that it happens when someone is using an unsophisticated email service. Potential clients who are emailing me are often in this category.

Could the problem be that I have my business email address being sent via my personal Gmail account with this option specified?

"When receiving a message:Reply from the same address the message was sent to"?

Perhaps the client's mail server is thinking there is some malicious cloaking involved? The next time this happens, I think I'll just try to resend the email directly from my personal gmail account and see if that gets through. (Rather than scaring the potential client with ominous warnings about their email glitches.)

Anchor tags and SEO

<a href="example.html" title="Put keywords in a natural language phrase" target="_blank">What people see </a>

Don't get confused that http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp doesn't include the title attribute; the offical spec does.
To stop the search engines from following add:
rel="nofollow"

pngfix for ie6 (Seems I try a new one each time)

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Latest favorite used on ElisabethLindberg.com is just added to the ie6.css.  Add class="png" to the element that has the background image.  Needed to slide the div 30 px to the left for some reason.  Then needed to skew the contents of the div to the right.
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If the PNG isn't large or complicated:
Forget PNG24 altogether. Use an PNG 8, "Adaptive", 256 colors, 0% Dither with Alpha transparency set in Fireworks and save using File, Export (regular save doesn't work).

The image looks ok in IE6 and fine in modern browsers.
See http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E4024 and http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/ for details.
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No, not a transparency fix, this just discusses getting consistant color fooling around with Photoshop settings:
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/10/consistent-png-quality-across-browsers.html
Note the commentor, Kevin, who gave the clue that "the “Convert to sRBB” option is in the little arrow dropdown on the right-hand side (above the “Interlaced” checkbox)"
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http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/demo/
(Had unexpected trouble with this. Maybe didn't upzip properly?  Grasping...)
Best aspect: Works with html "img" tags and css background images.
Most important downside: Doesn't work with background positioning. Not great to need the two little files in the root directory.
Usage notes: Put the css code inside the ie6.css file and don't forget to set proper tag that has the background image. (Never thought about it before, but it's weird how the css is still needed if taking care of it for an html image tag. The demo code includes img { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc) } after all.
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnghowto.htm (pngfix.js)
Most important downside: Doesn't work for css background images. This is such a common need, I've really stopped using this solution.

Oh for the day I stop supporting IE6 for my sites.

Wireframeing

iPLOTZ sent junk mail this morning (something about a contest) and they got me to log back in. Sneaky devils! I had forgotten how good this looked.

Will use it on the next new project