Thought this presentation was quite entertaining …
Death to Web 2.0 Design Trends …
June 10th, 2008
Interesting Presentation on Web Development Standards
June 10th, 2008Free PHP Peelads – with plugin version for WordPress
June 4th, 2008I have seen Peelads running on a few sites. I like them as a non-obtrusive way to feature content or ads. I thought there must be some free code to run them. Sure enough, there is – Pageear.
What is even better is there are plugins for CMS software, including this WordPress Pagepeel Plugin. Very easy to install and configure. Just upload a 100×100 image and a 500×500 image for the initial peel and the full display and set a URL.
Works well. Recommended.
Testing out OpenX – PHP-based Ad delivery
June 3rd, 2008I have a couple of sites I want to run ads on and just installed open-source ad server, OpenX. The installation was easy. I plan to run the first tests here – so watch out!
I tried this out years ago as PHPAdsNew. New name and new product really. My first impressions are good. Will post how I go once I get into it some more.
Here is a walkthrough of setting up a campaign …
Reflow
May 26th, 2008Came across an article on “reflow”:
the process by which the geometry of the layout engine’s formatting objects are computed
(from the Mozilla page on reflow)
Here is an example that DougT found for Wikipedia …
There are more: what is reflow
Follow up to the last post: A collection of creative 404 Pages
May 26th, 2008Some high quality and impressive looking 404 pages.
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Creating User Friendly Error Pages
May 26th, 2008We might understand what 404 means, but many users do not. Some good tips to provide a more helpful error page to the user when a page cannot be found.
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Reflections on Images with Javascript …
May 21st, 2008Came across this blog article on a Javascript Reflection Script. You can see demos there. It degrades well for browsers that don’t support it, but it supports the versions of the major browsers to come out in the last couple of years. It is very easy to implement. Include the .js file and then add a class to the specific image you want to reflect. The nice thing is it blends with backgrounds.
Produce Better CSS, HTML, Javascript Faster: 20 Useful Tools
May 18th, 2008Found this on Digg. A bunch of tools to help develop faster and better websites. Tools for producing, optimizing and testing CSS, HTML, and Javascript.
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Generating Barcodes with PHP
May 14th, 2008Note: if you are going to use the barcode class I mention check out the comments from Zech below. He found a bug
see below for the translation of the barcode
PHP Classes is always my first stop when looking for PHP code, no matter how advanced (or easy to be honest).
I have recently been working on a shopping cart system and implementing barcode generation, as well as allowing a barcode scanner be used as an input device to speed up aspects of order management and data entry.
There are a number of barcode generation classes at PHP Classes. Harish Chauhan’s Barcode Class has been very useful. His class supports a number of barcode standards and allows generation at various sizes. There is a simple form provided to allow generation of barcodes and demonstrate the features of the class.
I will update this when I have finished all the functionality.
The barcode scanner arrives in the morning!
Oh – and the barcode above says “www.createwebsite.info” in the code128 format.
UPDATE: here it is with the font uploaded for the text!
