Development Tips

MiniAJAX - Collection of Free Ajax Scripts

Mar 1, 2007Comments

MiniAjax is a very nice collection of some great DHTML and Ajax scripts. It’s not a huge collection but the pieces available are bits that would be useful across a number of websites.
Just a few of the scripts include:

Prototype Window which allows you to add a window in a HTML page.
Ajax Star Rating Bar [...]

Fixed CSS Centered Layout Tutorial

Feb 27, 2007Comments

Recently in my stat logs I've been getting a lot of visitors coming from a search for "CSS Fixed Layout". Generally they've been hitting this post where I wrote about ___layouts. So I decided to take the time to put together a simple fixed CSS layout tutorial for those finding the site looking [...]

swfIR: swf Image Replacement

Feb 27, 2007Comments

The team of Jon Aldinger, Mark Huot, and Dan Mall have released swfIR to bring in swf Image Replacement.
swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts. Using the dark arts of JavaScript and [...]

Extended Copy Menu - New Firefox Extension

Feb 23, 2007Comments

When I work on redesigns that use some content from the existing site, I'll simply copy and paste the text in to my editor. Now, because I hand code that isn't a big deal because I get plain text anyway. But if you are working in a WYSIWYG environment such as Dreamweaver, you'll [...]

Easy Email Address Encoding

Feb 9, 2007Comments

You may be getting a lot of email from site scrapers that search websites for email addresses shown on the site. You're not going to take your email address off because it's important to let people get in touch with you. But what do you do?
Do you create an image showing [...]