thepeoplestoolbox
thePeoplesToolbox is a nice repository of bookmarks for popular programming and design sites.
Robots.txt Generator
Robots.txt Generator is a handy tool that uses a web form to generate a Robots.txt file for your website. There are lots of options that make the file generation a snap! For those of you wondering, Robots.txt is a very simple text file that is placed on your root directory and tells search engines and other robots which parts of your site they are allowed to visit and index.
Why You Should Right Align Form Labels?
Swapnonil Mukherjee offers a good explanation as to Why you should right align form labels. He suggests by showing good examples that you eye must travel a smaller distance to navigate from form field to form field when the labels are right aligned.
Flash Detection
Good old Ray Camden has blogged about Flash detection and has prompted an alternative to the Macromedia/Adobe solution. It's called FlashObject.
Ajax (XmlHTTPRequest Object)
There have been a lot of posts recently on the XmlHTTPRequest object since Google released their Google Suggest application in the Google labs. Here are a few links describing this method that I thought I would throw together:
- Ben Forta's blog
- CFAjax
- AjaxCFC
- AJAX Tutorial with Prototype
- Many links, explanation
- Apple Developer Connection article
- Mozilla Information
- Google’s Javascript
- Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps)
- XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines
- XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples
- Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
- Ajax Matters
- Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
- Various Ajax libraries, for CFML and others
- AJAX & Interface Design
- AJAX on IE - back to the IFRAME
AjaxCF is another blog out there that is specialising in AJAX. it has some good ideas and links to other resources.
Alternating Row Color Tip
Mark Kruger has blogged a tip on colouring alternative rows in HTML using CSS. I've done something similar before, but the use of #currentrow mod 2# is neat.
I now have a better tip. Use BitAnd() like <tr class="rowBackground#BitAnd(query.currentRow,1)#">.
How to Code for Popup
Rather than code ...
<a href="#" onclick="javascript:window.open('path/to/page',pagename)">link title</a>
...use this...
<a href="path/to/page.html" onclick="return popupWindow(this.href,'winPopup','height=400,width=200');">link title</a>
..and this JavaScript function...
function popupWindow(strURL,strName,strWindowFeature) {
objWindow = window.open(strURL,strName,strWindowFeature);
if (window.focus) {
window.objWindow.focus();
}
return false;
}
objWindow = window.open(strURL,strName,strWindowFeature);
if (window.focus) {
window.objWindow.focus();
}
return false;
}
Got this idea from here and there are more ideas here and here.
Transparent PNG's
Here's a fix for the support of transparent PNG's in IE 5.5+.
There's even a support forum.
Conditional Comments in IE
Here's a cute one. You can do tests for IE versions using conditional comments!
