... published September 9, 2007
I assume you already saw one of those forms which show something like “Enter query” in one of the input fields and as soon as you enter a letter or press a key on the keyboard, the “Enter query” vanishes.
As I needed such a feature for a project of mine, I decided to write this tutorial to share a couple of techniques you can use for such an interesting form.
The first form has the mentioned feature that removes the text in the input field as soon as you hit a key: Continue…
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Who doesn’t this situation: You are typing a message and by accident you hit the CapsLock key and everything is written in capital letters. I bet you are as annoyed as I am when this happens.
Fortunately we are not alone. A fellow sufferer, named Nick Hodges, decided to write a useful tool called CapsLockBeGone and I think it is worth to review it on here after I had a lot of time to evaluate the program.
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... published September 6, 2007
Pro Blog Design had an article about formating blog posts for readability the other day. As we discussed further methods of styling your blog articles, we started talking about “the concept of making the first letter of a paragraph larger than the others“.
I then decided to give this technique a try on my blog and we continued talking about it, which helped me to tweak my CSS code to make this “magic” happen. The code for this “magic trick” was posted as comment, but I think it is better to put it into an extra tutorial article although it is nothing special if you know how to use Cascading Style Sheets.
There are two methods to achieve the goal, I will tell you how to do it and mention the advantages and disadvantages. Continue…
... published September 4, 2007
Kristarella wrote an article about the “Act4trees” project and I decided to also get on the train.
The project run by prizee.com has the astonishing goal of receiving 100 million visits. Once this goal is reached, prizee.com will put back 10,000 Euro (approx. 13,612 USD) to the environmental organization AQUAVERDE.
AQUAVERDE is a non-profit association founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2002.
Its goal is to promote and support all initiatives thriving to bring a new dimension to the interaction between human society and environement, in the perspective of sustainable development and dignity of People.
The association concentrates its efforts in priority to the safeguard of water ressources in the Amazon region, which constitute today one fourth of the fresh water reserves of our planet.
I believe we should support this project, either by donating to the association or by supporting the Ace4trees website and getting them their 100 million visits.
So what are you waiting for?
... published September 3, 2007
Unlike my PHP and HTML tutorials this tutorial will be different.
Although I know JavaScript I don’t use it often because of a few reasons. So I’m using this “tutorial” to
1. refresh my knowledge about JavaScript
and
2. teach you the one or the other useful thing.
Let’s begin
For this “tutorial” you should have some basic understanding about HTML and CSS, later it could be useful to know PHP, but that’s some time later… Continue…
