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Top 5 resources for building contact forms
12 October 2008 by
As a web designer or developer, contact forms can sometimes cause problems because there may be a degree of difficulty in getting the form to actually send the information and because using CSS to layout the form is perhaps a bit more difficult than you might have thought. Help! Luckily, there are some great resources out there to help you build website contact forms. Here’s my top five list (in no particular order).
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Learning about CSS
05 October 2008 by
I was doing some Dreamweaver tuition the other day and my student asked if I could recommend some simple online tutorials or learning resources for CSS.
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Smarter CSS using an adjacent selector
01 October 2008 by
Wouldn’t it be great if you could add styles to your web page by specifying a style for a particular element on the basis of its proximity to another element? Well, in fact, you can do this using the adjacent-sibling selector! The adjacent sibling selector is perhaps not as widely used as it might be but it’s well worth considering for use in your style sheet.
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Conditional CSS targets any browser you like
26 September 2008 by
As someone who is working with CSS all the time, you may have come across problems with different browsers [ahem]. Many of these differences are related to Internet Explorer and I think it’s fair to say that IE conditional comments are probably the best solution for these IE-specific differences. Now, Conditional-CSS extends that approach to other browsers by parsing your CSS file(s) on the server with some clever coding.
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Simply JavaScript reviewed
24 September 2008 by
I am reading Simply JavaScript by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams at the moment. It's a beginner-to-intermediate book for anyone who has a good understanding of HTML and CSS but who may need to beef up their JavaScript knowledge. I know most of the key concepts (I think) but I am using the book to reinforce a few things and to expand my JavaScript knowledge.
Here's my short review of the book…
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Back to basics with To Do lists
18 September 2008 by
Working as a freelancer, it’s sometimes quite easy to feel snowed under with work, invoicing, dealing with clients … and the myriad of tasks that are associated with running your own business. In an attempt to become better organised, I’ve tried a couple of To Do List applications…
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First look at Google Chrome
11 September 2008 by
I was a bit lukewarm about Google Chrome, the new browser from the Googleplex, when it was first announced. Another browser for testing websites. I have a few of those already on my system. However, with a heavy heart [just kidding], I downloaded it and my first impressions are pretty good. Firstly, it does seem fast…
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Learning Adobe Air
03 September 2008 by
I am planning to learn more about [play with] Adobe Air in my spare time over the next few months.
The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.
I figure it’s likely to be less of a learning curve than another coding language because you can build an application with HTML, CSS and JavaScript [Ajax] and subsequently use Air to deploy it to the desktop. Adobe Air will ‘package’ everything and create the installation file. Well, there’s a bit more to it than that but you get the idea. The first job is to work out what I need…
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Changing from Textpattern to Wordpress?
27 August 2008 by
I have run this blog for a few years now with Textpattern as the content management system. I’m pretty happy with it but I am wondering if I might be better off changing to Wordpress.
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Geotagging
20 August 2008 by
I have been geotagging a pub guide website using the geo microformat. I think location-based information will become more important in future and this is one way of adding geodata to your website.