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Creative examples and ideas for website footers
Some great thoughts and examples of website footers. Some interesting new ideas for what content to put down there and how it should look.
Posted in Design & Development & Web
Wordpress 2.5 adds image galleries, here's how to use them
The new image gallery functionality in Wordpress 2.5 should be incredibly useful. Christina will definitely use it on our married life blog.
Posted in Blogging & Development & Web
WP-Cache 2.0
WP-Cache 2.0 is a useful looking plug-in that could really help the server load over at Bevo Sports.
Posted in Development & Web
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC
Unfortunately it worked terribly for me, tons of JavaScript errors and sites didn't display CSS remotely like they should. Hopefully it works better for you. (via)
Posted in Design & Development
CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the CSS concept of floats.
Posted in Design & Development
IE sucks... hack to fix z-index/select bugs
A CSS-only solution to the Internet Explorer bug that puts absolutely positioned elements behind select
boxes.
Posted in Design & Development & Web
Browser testing CSS and JavaScript
Some good thoughts from Roger Johansson on browser testing for CSS and JavaScript. Working at a PC-centric employer I don't test the more obscure Mac browsers and I focus on PC Firefox but otherwise my habits are very similar.
Posted in Design & Development
Gridding the 960
Helpful tool from Cameron Moll for designing for sites for 1024px resolution. The image has a background image grid, pixel ruler, and column divisions for a 960px-width layout. Could be very handy.
Posted in Design & Development
sIFR 3 beta available
Lots of needed new features (leading, kerning, and opacity) and easier to implement. I'll have to check it out soon.
Posted in Design & Development
Ajax loading gif generator
Quick, simple, and attractive way to create loading animation gifs for your site. Pick a color and pick a style and you're done.
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CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
Great set of links and screenshots to some Web 2.0 solutions to web input forms.
Posted in Design & Development & Digg
The Ultimate getElementsByClassName
Very useful JavaScript function I've used frequently at work. Makes you wonder why this isn't a built-in function since getElementsByTagName
and getElementById
are.
Posted in Development
What's Your Link Reputation?
An analysis of the factors other than Pagerank that Google takes into account when providing search results. The importance of the right links and not just the amount of them.
Kind of confusing.
Posted in Development
Section targeting for Google AdSense
Maybe it will allow me to have a little more success with the Google Ads on this site. There's so many of them about Blogger and TypePad and those make seemingly nothing per click.
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Refresh Dallas launches
First meeting of new local Dallas community of web designers and developers is November 10th in Plano. It's right down the road so I'll be there.
Posted in Design & Development
Search Engine Ranking Factors
A ton of well organized tips on factors that can influence a page's rank on the major search engines. Also, down near the bottom is a bunch of great information on mistakes you can make to negatively affect your rankings.
Posted in Development
Free MT photo gallery templates
Very nice looking Movable Type photo gallery templates available for download from StopDesign.
Posted in Development
Have a mint
If you use Shaun Inman's Shortstat then you'll definitely want to sign up to be notified when it's successor, Mint, is available. If you don't know, ShortStat is a very simple and useful PHP/MySQL-based web stats program.
Posted in Development
Blinksale now available
Blinksale looks like an excellent and affordable invoice management system. Looks like a simple way for me to send attractive invoices to my clients. I'll be trying out the free version for seven22.
Posted in Development
MT 3.2 Beta
New blog up from Six Apart for the new Movable Type 3.2 beta. Looks like this one is going to be a much more significant upgrade than any other recent releases. Lots of new features are on their way.
I installed the beta on Matt's site without issue, looks very promising.
Posted in Development