There are many ways to make your online writings accessible and more pleasant to read: multi-tier headings, short paragraphs, justified text alignment, spacious line-height and clean gutter spacing. There is, however, one additional element that always seems to be forgotten when it comes to online publishing: The horizontal rule.
You may have noticed that if you copy the flash embed code from youtube, it is not actually standards-compliant and will break your W3C validation. Here is the proper way to embed google video and youtube videos.
In an earlier post I explained how to do Ternary shorthand if/else statements in PHP. One of the major benefits of using a shorthand if/else statement is that you can use it inline with a string. But what if you only need to do in inline if statement, without the else?
If you make use of the code analyzer available in many modern IDE environments when coding strictly to PHP5 standards, you may have noticed that you will get errors thrown at you for using variables before they are declared in included files. For example, lets say you have two files, header.php and index.php.
This javascript function will allow you to easily inject text into a textarea wherever the caret/cursor is currently at. In addition, it also makes sure that the cursor and textarea scroll amount are in the correct place after the insertion. I have tested and verified this works in Firefox, IE7, Opera, Flock, Safari, and Maxthon.
Today I modified my blog topic listing layout from just a simple link list to a more traditional blog style with a summary for each topic. It was a major improvement but I felt that it was a little too bland and decided that thumbnails of the videos and images contained within each topic would make it more appealing.
As one of the commenter's reply states, "And again, another 37 reasons I only use jQuery for all UI development." That prett much sums it up!
37 Amazing jQuery Plugins
Yahoo has released an interesting designer stencil kit that allows you to specifically design around the widgets, dialogs, and tools provided by Yahoo's YUI javascript library.
As a website developer, one of the first things that I noticed when I switched over to Linux as my primary operating system, is that the default fonts available are quite different than the set I was used to in Windows. This, unfortunately, causes a lot of webpages to render as something resembling a pile of shit.
Everybody loves shortcuts, so why should you deny your users of this guilty pleasure when it comes to your javascript-driven web application? Giving your users the ability to execute commands with simple shortcuts can make all the difference in the usability of your application.