The IE Tester

Developers and designers entering the new era of Windows Vista might find themselves struggling to test previous versions of IE. Although there are several methods to accomplish this in Windows XP, post and IE 7 installation; Windows Vista puts up a fight with dual IE installations.

Odds or Even in PHP

This is a quick and dirty method to get the infamous “Zebra Strips” on tables by assigning alternating classes.

For this example we’ll use the fmod() function in PHP…

Using Subversion with FTP

Quick and dirty method to setup a roaming subversion repository without a subversion server and accessing through an ftp connection.

Tools Needed:

  • A NAS or Hosted FTP Account (Ex: Godaddy)
  • Tortoise SVN
  • NetDrive

Using Valid IE CSS Hacks

It’s important to remember that eventually IE will catch up to the times and we need to keep our hacks clean and ready for the future. At the moment, IE 6- seems to ignore decedent selectors so we can use that to our advantage when targeting a hack. We can use the child selector to replace both the old star html bug:

Ultimate Fade-In Slideshow (v1.51)

I just found this really great javascript slideshow generator at www.dynamicdrive.com. This can also be found at churchmedia.cc

PHP Lightweight device-detection

With the blaze of the iPhone and other similarly enabled "web" phones, companies such as Bank of America, ABC News, Flickr and Orbitz.com have made an extra effort to make their exceptional websites available across these smaller platforms.

Activating PHP5 in Godaddy Hosting

This is a quick and simple rewrite used to activate php5 and rename the handlers for php4. The following code will need to be in the root dir .htaccess file for global changes.

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# switch GoDaddy's php extension handling for php5
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

Prototype and Script.aculo.us Effect Collection

Let’s build a collection of really cool effects/websites created with the Prototype.js and Script.aculo.us. I’ll start off with a couple from a friend and encourage you to help me and comment some of your examples!

Quick way to getElementsByClass in HTML DOM

In this example I'll find all the elements with the class name "hideMe" and then hide/show them.

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet List

I’m sure most of you have the big “HTML Reference Book,” but how often do you really use it?