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I Have Been Denied a US F1 Student Visa For The Second Time.

So today I went to the US embassy for the second time for a Student F1 visa application interview and I have been refused a visa for entry into the United States. Last time I was denied it was laid on the bases that I did not provide any compelling evidence at the time of my interview to compel me to return home after completing my studies.  I understood and they were completely right for doing so but this time around all the evidence was there, I was so convinced that finally I will be granted...

Essential web browser tools for the pro web developer

From the beginning of my web development career after high school in the summer of 2006. I have frequently used certain web browser tools or add-ons if you like to aid me in my every day web development. Through the course of time I have learn to use these tools to become a better web developer. In this post, I will make a list of all the web browser tools or add-ons I find most useful to the professional web developer. Firebug In my own opinion Firebug is the most useful...

It has been a while

I know it has been more than a month since i last blogged about anything. It's a very hard responsibility to keep a blog going and most of you know that. Over the past month several events have happened in my life for example i now do website related consulting work and client support from home for the company i use to work for Rhythm Ltd and Geographical Media because they are in the process of relocating their office outside of the Gambia. Working from home has a lot of fun involved...

How to build a live comment preview with Javascript and HTML

In recent times, it has become quite a trendy and nifty trick to show a live comment preview on a lot of blog websites. I remember just how excited i was the first time i saw this in action on a dotnet blogengine application. In this article i will show you how to implement a live comment preview on your website with just simple javascript and HTML. Okay, to get started i will start by creating a javascript(.js) file with the following on it. function ShowCommentPreview() { // Access...

Free HTML Encoder

More and more i feel the need to encode script and HTML tags or elements into to encoded strings so that i could input them along with my blog post without actually rendering the HTML or Javascript. Accomplishing a task like this will be hard and will be prone to many errors if i was to do it by hand. i knew i needed a little application to do this task for me. So therefore this morning i decided to write Free HTML Encorder. This is quite a very useful utility when you want to encode script,...

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Making a background image hover effect work properly in Internet Explorer 6

Earlier today while i was working on a new menu style, i came across a weird bug in IE 6 wherein a background-image for a hover effect just would not disappear even when am not hovering over the link that was suppose to cause the effect. So after spending what seems to be like an hour trying to figure out what was causing the problem..... and finally i added background-repeat: repeat-x; in to my CSS file and that seems to have solved my problem. Before .Menu { ...

My First Post

Hello there and welcome to my website. My name is Lamin Barrow and i am a genuine chocolate face from a tiny west African country called The Gambia. I am a web designer working for a web design company called Rhythm Ltd. based here in The Gambia. So this is my first post and i am wondering about what i should be writing about. Anyways expect more and better from me next time. Good bye and enjoy your stay!!!!