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August 13, 2007

100 Essential Resources for Web Developers

A Web developer’s life is hard enough without having to go on the hunt for good developing resources. To help you take a load off, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best tools available. After using these resources, you may still have 99 problems, but we guarantee that developing ain’t gonna be one [...]

April 8, 2006

Removing Dotted Links

If you dislike this quirk as much as I do, you’re in luck. Tech Manifesto will provide a few methods for squashing this bug and another tweak which will completely remove it from your browser’s default behavior by editing the CSS that controls the user interface.

March 30, 2006

Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps

This tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float.

March 15, 2006

AJAX Login System using XMLHttpRequest

Creating a fully secure “ajax”-powered login system, ideal for blogs, forums, and other similar sites. I had a barebones secure case working within a few hours, and a few more hours gave the final result that I will share today.

Vertical Centering

By proper vertical centering we mean an element sitting in a container that is dynamically positioned so that its horizontal centre line coincides with horizontal centre line of its container, unless it is taller than its container, in which case its top coincides with the top of its container.
The technique at: Waxpad

March 14, 2006

How to Make Firefox Forms Suck Less

Kevin Hale gives some quick tips on how to make your forms look more stylish in FireFox. This is the same technique being used on WuFoo.com.

March 10, 2006

Ajax Progress Bar

This Italian site gives some examples on how to get an AJAX status bar up and running on your site. The tutorial is not in english, so you will have to run it through a translator first.

March 8, 2006

Getting Started with Ajax

A List Apart is pleased to present the following excerpt from Chapter 27 of Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition by Aaron Gustafson.
“In a nutshell, it is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest() object to communicate with server-side scripts. It can send as well as receive information in a variety of formats, including XML, [...]

Clearing floated images in body text

A problem that I’ve been running into more often in these days of CSS based layouts than I did back in the old table days is the “image sticking out of the bottom of the content area” problem that often occurs when an image is floated left or right, and there isn’t enough text to [...]

March 3, 2006

Create a To Do List with Ruby on Rails

Thehua has a great beginners tutorial for creating a easy and simple to-do list using Ruby on Rails. The tutorial is presented in flash, however there is a PDF download for easy offline reading.