No, I’m not talking about Vista’s new stupid ad campaign. I just bought a template for a project off of TemplateMonster.com and they have this crazy phone verification system. I’ve always liked to think of the web as virtual, but getting a phone call from a website when I click a button crosses that "fourth wall" into reality. So anyway, I get a phone call from some computerized system, and enter a code onto their webpage that the phone message gives me. Very neat way to authorize someone.
I know rounded corners are still all the rage, and helping the cause initially was niftycorners
which i’ve used at work for some of the sites. But I just found curvyCorners, which seems to have more to offer… eh, just putting it here for reference!
Wow, and I thought the Web Developer Toolbar was cool. This Firebug app is kind of like Xylescope which is Safari/Webkit based (and only for the Mac). Firebug is a Firefox plugin, so it’s crossbrowser and pretty damn cool.
Check it out at http://www.getfirebug.com
If you’re interested in what Xylescope is, you can check it out at http://culturedcode.com/xyle/
I think Xylescope is a little more polished, but I think it’s been around longer, and costs money (but it’s worth it!)
I’m working on website for a friend, reworking his homepage to change it from a 500k flash piece which is annoying to straight HTML which is faster to load, and easier to change if he wants too.
Compare the original: http://www.ariellesgallery.com to the dev site http://ag.evolvwebsolutions
Sure it’s not as flashy, but whatever. He doesn’t care as long as it loads.
Gonna replace the hidden menu (the one between the catalog menu and the main content) with tabs at the bottom… using the tab code from here:
Here’s a way to prevent that stupid image bar from appearing over images in IE.
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=41
I think it’s a great idea anyway… I had this idea for how to store images that have been entered in a rich-text-editor (RTE). I use FCKEditor at work (although I’m trying out 2.3 and it’s bugging me), to allow people to enter news and stories online. So step 1 is to use FCKEditor to allow the people to enter the content, and upload images as needed to a temporary location.
Step 2 is when the submit the form, before putting it into the database, analyze it. I’ll look for . I’ll then submit this new rewritten content to the documents table in the database.
Step 3 is to use Apache’s mod_rewrite to treat “/images/file.jpg” as something like “/show_image.php?filename=file.jpg”. Although I’d probably use something different than “images” because I’m (and probably everyone else in the world) already using an images folder for images.
But I think that’s a really neat way to store images in a database and to still allow a content management system to use that information. Should be cool!
What a disgusting hack that is in the first place, damn those nested tables have to go!
#searchbox {
width:240px;
position:absolute;
left:50px;
top: 160px; /* ie setting*/
}
body > table > tbody > tr > td > table > tbody > tr > td > #searchbox {
top:147px; /* firefox setting */
}
Last night I finished updating Derek’s site with his new album. I used this thing called the Flam player, which is a free flash-based player for music. The documentation is a little of a pain in the ass, but once you get it running it’s nice. I also used Prototype and Scriptaculous to make the Flam Player draggable and hideable.
Just finished up another batch of fixes for our friends at Artisan Studios. Looking forward to getting this live. I’m using some Prototype and Scriptaculous effects on the backend, just for changing the order of the artist photos via a drag-and-drop interface. I really like that part of it. I’m also using FCKEditor for the content management. FCKEditor takes all the pain out of content, it’s such a great tool.