Tag Archives: Web development

regular Javascript v. AJAX for dynamic content insertion

Published: 27 February 2008
Recently for work, I’ve had cause to write functionality so that a certain chunk of a form can be inserted again, over and over, by the user. The form involves data about course equivalencies between schools, and the user might need to submit data for multiple courses a student has taken. Hence, the [...]
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Introduction to Web Design presentation

Published: 22 February 2008
View PDF » This is a very basic introduction on how to go about creating a web page. It was to last for about ten minutes and given to an audience of middle schoolers. See also the handout I made for them containing links to various resources.
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CSS Web Design presentation

Published: 22 February 2008
View PDF » This lasted about an hour, if I remember correctly, and skimmed over HTML and CSS basics before delving into guidelines for improving a web page’s appearance through CSS. The audience was my fellow college students who may have had some knowledge of HTML and CSS, but no background in professional web design.
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using Javascript and CSS to mark outgoing links

Published: 26 September 2007
It may be useful to your visitors to know which links will take them off of your site without having to hover over all of them. It might also be a nice touch to mark links pointing to PDF documents, for example, with a little Adobe PDF logo. With the help of Javascript [...]
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using AJAX to spiff up a gallery

Published: 3 May 2007
Lightbox is nice and all, but sometimes I find it clunky, particularly in Firefox when I have a lot of other tabs open. However, I don't want to go the route of having an image load by itself in the browser, because it would be so much nicer to have it integrated into my [...]
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how to be a snobby web designer

Published: 30 March 2007
I’m not talking about the attitude that comes across in your writing, but instead how you design your pages. I’ve seen these problems crop up from time to time on various sites and it always bugs me, because you’re pretty much saying to a certain group of users that you don’t care about them [...]
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using Perl and Apache on OS X

Published: 22 March 2007
What was this /private/etc/httpd/users/sarah.conf that it was talking about? I had never created this file. I checked and it certainly existed. It also had an Options line without ExecCGI--bingo! I simply removed the file because it was just redefining what I had already specified in httpd.conf for Users/*/Site directories (shown above). I then restarted Apache and voila, my scripts worked.
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custom shapes in Photoshop

Published: 3 August 2006
Custom shapes can be very useful for making multiple objects that look the same. For example, say you want several photos to all be cut out of the same shape, like this: Creating a Custom Shape Create a blank 200 pixels x 200 pixels image. Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool and set its radius to [...]
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Clichés of a Crappy Site

Published: 23 December 2005
If you’ve browsed through many personal sites at all, you’ve probably seen some of the following things that make me personally cringe. I don’t understand why they’re so trendy, since they don’t improve a site in the least. The example images link to the web sites from which I took the screen shot. Text Tiny fonts The purpose [...]
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simple photo gallery script

Published: 21 July 2005
A very simple photo gallery tool. It displays a set of thumbnail images (made by you) and then each individual image when clicked. Requirements You need PHP support on your server. An easy way to test this is to stick <?php phpinfo(); ?> into a .php file, upload that file to your server, and load [...]
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