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Web Design Blog - March 30, 2010

what is reverse DNS

There are two types of dns: forward dns and reverse dns. Forward dns is the one we all use on a very regular basis. It allows us to use the internet in a human friendly way, otherwise we would have to remember a set of numbers known as an IP address. Forward dns takes a domain request such as "google.com", goes out to the world and returns back with an ip address your computer can use. Reverse dns does the opposite, you query with an ip address for it's assigned domain name. It is commonly used ... read more!

Mar 30, 2010 3:55pm by

Mike Vandenberghe

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Lightbox your gallery

Lightbox is a great option for those wanting to provide a more rich experience for photo galleries. It can also be used just about anywhere you want to have a thumbnail clicked to show a larger image. Depending on your lightbox version it should fall back gracefully to provide those with less javascript support to still view the image. One of the better options I have seen out there is the lightbox version that operates with jquery. It provides a gallery function allowing you to browse between i... read more!

Mar 30, 2010 3:47pm by