Archive for September, 2004

Yet another color tool

Friday, September 24th, 2004

There’s so many different kinds of these color tools that I have a whole subcategory for them!

Color synthAxis
I didn’t immediately get how it works - definitely need to at least glance at the instructions for this one. :)
[via web-graphics]

Expression values

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

PHP type comparison tables

For example if $x=”"; what will empty($x) return? or is_null($x)? Or the even more surprising one: $x = “0″ will return TRUE on empty() even though it is considered a string.

PHP: Remove an element from an array

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

Found on this thread

I needed to remove elements from an array that were either blank, nothing but a space, or null.
foreach($array as $key => $value) {
if($value == "" || $value == " " || is_null($value)) {
unset($array[$key]);
}
}
/*
and if you want to create a new array with the keys reordered accordingly…
*/
$new_array = array_values($array);

UI Patterns and Techniques

Monday, September 20th, 2004

I spotted this on del.icio.us. Could be useful for UI inspiration, when you need some ideas about when & how to use some standard visual “techniques” based on what kind of information you need to present.

UI Patterns and Techniques

Click Counter

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

Now this is something that I have been longing for! Ever since the link from this post kind of disappeared.

Click Counter for Wordpress Plugin
Will let you know you know how many people click on your links (Looks as if there’s a lot of configuration settings you can do as well) Can’t wait to try it out!

Nested/ Threaded Comments

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

This has made the rounds, but I’ll attribute credit to the last place I saw it, which was Blogging Pro

Brian Meidell’s nested (or threaded) comments

Just a side note: there was an error when using that with subscribe to comments, but I’ve updated subscribe to comments so that the error should no longer exist.

Online Tutorials

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

I’m in the process of training someone at work in the ways of all things web. LOL! So I’ve been trying to collect free online tutorials for them to walk through, as well as some good all-around beginner info sites they can look at when they have time. Here’s a few I got:

W3Schools
Lot of tutorials (PHP, CSS, ASP, SQL)

sqlcourse.com
Great SQL tutorial

HTML dog
Great HTML and CSS reference

PHP.net
This is pretty much a no-brainer. I must go there several times a day.

CSS Zen Garden

HTML Lite
Tutorials: HTML, Javascript, PHP, CSS, MySQL tutorials (among others)

I’ll post more in the comments section as I find them. (Feel free to post your fav, if not already listed)

Special Alt Characters

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

Special Alt Characters
In case you ever need to know how to type an — or é
(To do them in HTML though you’d probably want to see something like this)

iTunes link maker

Friday, September 10th, 2004

Awhile back I wanted to link to a song on iTunes, and Wendell a reader on one of my other blogs gave me this link to do it with:

iTunes Link Maker

(Wendell if you’d like to me to link a blog from your name - let me know)

Favicon inspiration

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

A gallery of Favicons to inspire you.
[link via planetOzh]