DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - HTML

thepeoplestoolbox

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:56:00 +0100

thePeoplesToolbox is a nice repository of bookmarks for popular programming and design sites.

Robots.txt Generator

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:49:00 +0100

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?

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:45:00 +0100

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

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:49:00 +0100

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)

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:04:00 +0100

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:

Found some new stuff here on the Fusebox forum which led me to JSMX which looks really simple to implement. I like that!

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

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:02:00 +0100

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

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:55:00 +0100

Rather than code ...


link title

...use this...


link title

..and this JavaScript function...


function popupWindow(strURL,strName,strWindowFeature) {
	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.

Cheat Sheet Roundup

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:00:00 +0100

Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers

Transparent PNG's

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:18:00 +0100

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

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:16:00 +0100

Here's a cute one. You can do tests for IE versions using conditional comments!

JavaScript RIA Toolkit

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:07:00 +0100

Rico is a suite of rich internet components, behaviors and effects for the web application space. The components are open-source and can be grouped into the following categories:

AJAX
Drag and Drop
Cinematic Effects, and
Behaviours

A Better Way to Enter Dates

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:23:00 +0100

Simon Willison has created a better way of entering dates for your web applications. Inspired by PHP’s strtotime function, Simon’s JavaScript code accepts a string in a wide variety of formats and converts it in to a time. You can enter simple expressions like:

Today
Tod
tomorrow
tom
yesterday
6th
6th October

Hover Over Help Tool Tip

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:56:00 +0100

Richard Livsey has a neat technique to present hover-over tool tips.

Prototype Tool

Fri, 06 May 2005 15:09:00 +0100

Axure is a neat looking tool to create a prototype.

Customised Selects

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:34:00 +0100

Here's a neat idea for creating customised and styled SELECT dropdown items by Aaron Gustafson.