If you are involved with web design for a while, and if you don’t program, you may at some point wonder if you’d like to program. Some designers feel frustrated that they can’t achieve certain effects without relying on a programmer. Many such designers would feel empowered if they knew how to program. Some hold [...]
Read PostSyndication feeds such as RSS and Atom have the power to automate the delivery of all forms of digital content. The word “content” can refer to weblog posts or MP3s, the U.S. President’s last speech or the photos of your last family vacation that you’ve uploaded to Flickr. If you subscribe to a podcast (perhaps [...]
Read PostWe just saw this one and thought we’d point to it. This script allows you to do a tab interface. Again, it is drop dead simple to install on the page. All you have to do is include the script and then assign the right CSS classes to the DIVs that you want to be [...]
Read PostHow would you like to use one script to create reflected images on your website? Instead of using Photoshop to create the reflections on each image – you can simply use this script to do the work for you! Here is an example Here is the script (including credits to the developers): /** * reflection.js [...]
Read PostMany times we want several items to simultaneously disappear from a webpage. Usually this disappearance is triggered when we click something on the page. For instance, last week I was asked to fix an issue with an image map which, when clicked, caused other information to appear . In the middle of the page there [...]
Read PostI’m using this on a project and want to suggest it for others. Almost any time that you have to present information in a table, you’ll probably want to make that table sortable. These folks came up with a good trick, and one easy to implement: While the web design community gradually moves away from [...]
Read PostAs Lawrence reminded us a few days ago, software development, and more generally, IT-related projects continue to record failure rates much higher than those of “standardized” construction projects, leading many of those in top management positions viewing IT as a cash sieve, as unregulated, as immature. One reason for the continued failure of these types [...]
Read PostSince it’s inception, Firefox has had an unfortunate habit which most users and developers have noticed at some point: shorter pages will display with no right-hand scrollbar, while longer pages will naturally trigger a scrollbar. The result is a website that jumps 15 pixels to the left or right to accomodate the need, or lack [...]
Read PostThe modern, affluent standard of living depends on society’s infrastructure, both physical and intellectual: airports, highways, bridges, ports, telecommunication networks, databases, power plants, and the software that makes it all run. Many brilliant people have struggled hard to figure out the best ways of constructing society’s infrastructure. 150 years ago it was still common for [...]
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