unlockunlock: March 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

How to Install IIS (Internet Information Services) in Windows Server

initialconfigtask

Windows Server is the leader in terms of operating system unit and revenues. According to Wikipedia, Internet Information Server is a Web Server application on the Internet created by Microsoft for use with Windows. It is the most used Web server after Apache HTTP Server.

It provides a reliable, manageable, and scalable Web application application infrastructure.

IIS is not turned on by default when Windows is installed.

How to activate the Internet Information Services

Once the Initial configuration Task Window is ready, go to the Add roles option.

addrole

If not loaded, you can access this using the Server Manager window

servermanager

Select to check the “Web Server (IIS)” option and follow the Wizard instruction.

webserver

It’s really fast and easy!

finished

Once the Web Server Installation is finished and you want to add more features, go to the “Add Role Services”

editaddfeatures_services

and Select the Role Services that you want to add e.g. CGI

editaddfeatures

Click the Install option.

That’s it!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Network Folder Not Available in Browse for Folder Window

networksharedfolders

Alright, I encountered this problem when installing SQL using Web Developer Express edition and I’m going to have some quick solution to the problem using the command interpreter.

There has been some problem in your user-rights, probably not yet configured in the computer you are connecting to, your Windows 7 network automatically use the IP version 6 configuration and IPv4 has wrong 32-bit integer value.

notavailable

Go to your run Window (Win+R) and launch the command interpreter (cmd.exe)

Once the tool is open (cmd.exe), use the command

net use {drive} \\{computer name or IP address}\{shared folder}

Here’s an example below where the driver letter is y:, the computer name is vistauser-pc and the shared folder is Q.

netuseq3

Now, you can browse the network folder.

available

If you can’t still see the folder, you can type the path manually as shown above.

Thanks for reading this article!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Have Fun Learning CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language designed for the look and formatting of web pages written in HTML.

Sample design

Cool right?

I’ve been busy learning several introductory topics and technologies from Asp.net, CSS, Ajax, Microsoft AJAX and Javascript for three weeks now. I already had some background for the languages designed for engineering purposes but for website design – none.

I’m going to share some of my experiences along the way.

Open your Notepad or you can use the free Visual Web Developer Express Edition and try learning CSS…

Default HTML Code

</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

You can insert the CSS code between the <head> … </head> and <body> … </body> section

</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

The CSS code for adding border, margin and floating the images left

div.im
{
margin: 3px;
border: 1px solid #000fff;
float: left;
}

Adding a hover effect once the mouse is located on top of the image

div.im a:hover im {border: 3px solid #96cf23;}

In the <body> … </body> section, lets try using the CSS code using an image.

Default syntax for Image with specified ID, Height and Width

Finalized code

</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

Thanks for reading the article!